Cities and Systemic Change for Sustainability: Prevailing Epistemologies and an Emerging Research Agenda
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Review Methodology
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- Incl. multi-level governance, neo-institutionalism, regulation theory, discourse theory.
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- Incl. organization and knowledge sociology, anthropology, culture theory.
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- Incl. policy analysis, economics, information society studies, transport studies, rural studies, environmental justice.
- (4)
- Incl. adaptive and transformative capacity, adaptive renewal cycle, panarchy.
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- Incl. actor network theory, sustainability assessment, market transformation, complexity theory, spatial transition, sustainable consumption and production, ecological restructuring, social construction of technology.
3. Delineating Research Areas and Interdisciplinary Trajectories
3.1. Studies of Systemic Change Engaging with the City
3.2. Urban Studies Engaging with Systemic Change
3.3. Method, Empiricism and Transdisciplinarity
4. Prevailing Epistemologies
Epistemology/Drivers | Political | Economic | Ecological | Social | Cultural | Technological | Demographic |
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A: Transforming urban metabolisms and political ecologies (STS) | ●●● | ●●● | ●●● | ●●● | |||
B: Configuring urban innovation systems for green economies (STS) | ●●● | ●●● | ● | ● | ●●● | ||
C: Building adaptive communities and ecosystems (SES) | ●● | ●●● | ●●● | ● | ● | ||
D: Empowering urban grassroots niches and social innovation (STS) | ●●● | ●●● | ●●● | ● | ● |
4.1. A: Transforming Urban Metabolisms and Political Ecologies
4.2. B: Configuring Urban Innovation Systems for Green Economies
4.3. C: Building Adaptive Urban Communities and Ecosystems
4.4. D: Empowering Urban Grassroots Niches and Social Innovation
5. Conclusions: Towards a Future Research Agenda
Supplementary Materials
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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