Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Catalysing Urban Transformations (CUT)

Welcome to a workshop on Catalysing Urban Transformations (CUT) at the Global Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption conference in Barcelona, Spain on 1-4 November 2015. Case studies and theories on mechanisms to CUT through the physical and cultural inertia of cities and urban life to accelerate the transition to resilient low fossil carbon futures! Urban living labs is a key topic at the workshop. Abstracts welcome!

About GUST

European cities face a pressing challenge – how to provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation in real time. Funded by JPI Urban Europe, the aim of the GUST project is to examine, inform and advance the governance of sustainability transitions through urban living labs, which are proliferating across Europe as a means for testing innovations in buildings, transport and energy systems. Despite the experimentation taking place on the ground, there is a lack of systematic learning across urban and national contexts.

Monday, 18 May 2015

Catalysing Urban Transformations (CUT)

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