Governance and Planning
Achieving urban sustainability goals requires strategic modes of governance. Local and regional government bodies are critical stakeholders with the capacity to enact policies and regulations that can simultaneously address social, environmental, and economic goals. At the same time, they can assess and support a wide range of activities initiated by stakeholders in the private sector, public sector, and civil society.
This focus area centres on capacity building, including how governance and planning activities are being reinvented to realise more sustainable urban futures. These activities are characterized by their power dynamics and potentially involve conflicts among stakeholders with diverging priorities, values, and interpretations of desirable future conditions. A key challenge of sustainable urban governance is to ensure that collective change processes are effective, inclusive, and democratic.
Selected projects
- Klimatneutrala städer 2030 - Öppen akademi
- Ecosystems of learning for urban sustainability transformations
- Does sustainable mobility require new roles for urban planning?
- Massive Urban Missions: Advancing and Delivering Climate Neutral Cities
- CULTIVATE: Co-designing Food Sharing Innovation for Resilience
Contacts
Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
dalia.mukhtar-landgren@svet.lu.se
Lena Neij
lena.neij@iiiee.lu.se