Overview
- Provides theory, case studies, and contextualized tools for the governance of urban sustainability transitions in European and Asian cities
- Presents a necessary and timely reflection on current analytical and prescriptive practices of transition management in urban contexts in Europe and Asia
- Describes good practices of both Asian and European cities in shaping their paths towards sustainability
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability Transitions (TPUST)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introducing Urban Sustainability Transitions and Their Governance
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Transition Management in European and Japanese Cities
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Synthesis and Reflections
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About this book
Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face. They do this by not repeating old patterns but by searching for new and innovative methods and instruments based on shared principles of a transitions approach. The book describes the quest of cities on two continents to accelerate and stimulate such a transition to sustainability. The aim of the book is twofold: to provide insights into how cities are addressing this challenge conceptually and practically, and to learn from a comparison of governance strategies in Europe and Asia. The book is informed by transition thinking as it was developed in the last decade in Europe and as it is increasingly being applied in Asia. The analytical framework is based on principles of transition management, which draws on insights from complexity science, sociology, and governance theories. Onlyrecently this approach has been adapted to the urban context, and this book is an opportunity to share these experiences with a wider audience. For scholars this work offers a presentation of recent state-of-the-art theoretical developments in transition governance applied to the context of cities. For urban planners, professionals, and practitioners it offers a framework for understanding ongoing developments as well as methods and instruments for dealing with them. The content is potentially appealing to post-graduate and graduate students of environmental management, policy studies, and urban studies programs.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions
Book Subtitle: European and Asian Experiences
Editors: Derk Loorbach, Julia M. Wittmayer, Hideaki Shiroyama, Junichi Fujino, Satoru Mizuguchi
Series Title: Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability Transitions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55426-4
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Japan KK 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55425-7Published: 10 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56655-7Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55426-4Published: 26 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2199-5508
Series E-ISSN: 2199-5516
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 195
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Climate Change Management and Policy, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Management, Cities, Countries, Regions, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice