Urban Transition Management

Urban Transition Management

Dr. Derk Loorbach Manchester, 07-05-2009

Dr. Derk Loorbach Manchester, 07-05-2009

Dutch Research Institute For Transitions

Towards sustainable cities?

• Cities major contributor to CO2 emissions

• Cities places of innovation and change

• Challenge to transform cities into sustainable cities in an innovative way

system and transition approach


Cities as social systems

City Rotterdam

Societal landscape

City subsystems (regimes)

Civil society

and citizens

Mobility subsystem

Policy substem

Energy subsystem

Industrial subsystem

Innovations and niches


Transition dynamicscomplex, uncertain and non linear

Predevelopment

Stabilization

time

Societal development

Acceleration

Take-off

Macro-level

(landscape, trends)

Meso-level (regimes, institutions)

Micro-level (Niches,

individuals)

From: Rotmans et al, 2000 From: Geels and Kemp, 2001


Governance framework for dealing with transitions

Strategic(emphasis on system, cultures)

Tactical(emphasis on subsystem, structures)

Operational(emphasis on niches, practices)

Monitoring, evaluating

and learning

Developing images

coalitions and transition-agendas

Mobilizing actors and executing projects and

experiments

Problem structuring, establishment of the transition arena and

envisioning


Transition management radical change in incremental

steps • Complex system approach

– Reframing social problems and developing shared long term perspectives, interests and strategies

• Basic tenets and framework guide experimental governance strategy development– Visions, experiments, agenda’s, reflection inform one another

• Building up societal pressure on regime, and seducing regime actors to participate– Multi-actor, frontrunners, experimenting

• Framework for science-policy co-production– Iteration between theory and practice


City of Rotterdam

• 650.000 inhabitants, relatively young population, 50% immigrants, huge harbour/industry

• Two historic transitions: from rural to city, from national to global harbour

• Number of programs started to deal with persistent urban challenges

Three programs where TM was/is used in different ways


Rotterdam Climate Initiative

• 50 % CO2 reduction in 2025• Harbour/industry and city• Multiple projects, strategies and

experiments, large focus on CCS

transformative evaluation: CCS, scenarios, visions, pathways, experiments, governance strategy


System RotterdamActors RotterdamRotterdam ClimateInitiative

Vision

Icon-projects

Vision

Innovation projects

External pressure

Spaces forexperiments

Agendas andnetworks

Agendas andnetworks

System- changes

Strategic

Tactical

Operational

Trends

Structure

Niches

Level ofgovernance

Level ofdevelopment

Monitoring and evaluation framework

basis for indicator framework


Pact op Zuid • 1 billion Euro, 10 years, city and housing

companies• Hundreds of projects in physical, economic,

and social and cultural domain• Aim: to improve southern half of Rotterdam

up to the level of north

evaluation from transition perspective; no clear focus on social challenge, no inspiring long-term vision, fragmentation on short term, limited stakeholder involvement, dominance of physical/economic


Tijd

Pact op Zuid

City harbors Program-

directors

Self-organisation: Supply driven, Integral,

Process oriented Innovative,/sustainable

Co-production

Fragmented Competition Individualism Distrust Short-term

GGW

Gideon

Policy new stylenwe stijl

City marines

SONS Bureau frontline

Field-academy

Activation Human centered concrete solutions

Empowering Experimenting Learning

Mono-actorGroup

portrets

Participation visions

Norm op Zuid

Roffa 5314

Artroute

Social and policy transition


Cityharbours

• 6+ billion redevelopment of 1600 ha. harbour area towards 2025

• City and harbour cooperation• Three years of negotiation and regular

planning and visions

Active involvement through arenas and strategy/policy development; raising ambition, developing new vision, selecting core themes, developing shared discourse and creating transition experiments


5 strategies1. Re-inventing delta technology

2. Volume & Value

3. Crossing borders

4. Floating gentrification

5. Sustainable mobility

Long term: perspective 2040

Mid term: course 2025

Short term: action 2015

City harbours


Urban transitions (in Rotterdam)

• Three cases in different domains with common characteristics– Long-term and experimental focus– Explicit search for innovations in governance– Struggles between optimisation and innovation/transition

• Cities ideal and most problematic level for TM– Cities as systems– Emotional attachment is high– Very concrete and relatively quick results

• Urban transition composed of multiple subsystem transitions– Mobility, energy, policy, health care, education, consumption, industry,

food provision, …

• Some can be actively ‘managed’ others can be stimulated, others need to be adapted to


Urban transition management

• Implementation of TM raises ambition, coherence and activism

• ‘Transitionizing’ existing policies– Use of the concept of transitions to conceptualize,

analyze and identify ongoing changes towards sustainability in different domains

– Stimulation of envisioning and goal formulation on the long-term

– (re)structuring transition scenario’s and pathways– Up-scaling and initiating projects and experiments– Reflection and evaluation of progress of transitions and

(required) changes in governance


Discussion

• Urban transitions to sustainability are necessary

• They require transition oriented strategies tailored to specific city

• This requires skilled and knowledgeable actors, time, money and ambitious politicians

• Focus on policy and professionals, less on citizens

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