The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Knowledge, Power and Governance

ISBN-13: 9780367664879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 182 str.

Jens Stissing Jensen; Matthew Cashmore; Philipp Sp?th

Opis

This book contributes to emerging debates on the politics of urban transitions by examining the intimate interlinkages between knowledge, power and governance. The authors explore the strategies, struggles and controversies involved in configuring knowledge and how knowledge constructions influence governance.

Spis treści

1. Introduction : the knowledge politics of urban sustainability transitions Matthew Cashmore, Jens Stissing Jensen and Philipp Späth  2. Governing radical societal change: politics, power and knowledge Matthew Cashmore 3. Smart urbanism in Barcelona: a knowledge-politics perspective Evelien de Hoop, Adrian Smith, Wouter Boon, Rachel Macrorie, Simon Marvin and Rob Raven  4. The professional knowledge politics of urban transport transitions in the greater Copenhagen region Jens Stissing Jensen and Ulrik Jørgensen  5. The power-knowledge of best practice: governing climate change in German municipalities Nanja Christina Nagorny-Koring  6. Competing knowledge assemblages in Danish heat governance Jens Stissing Jensen and Peter Karnøe  7. Urban metabolism as governmentality: governing the city of flows Vanesa Castan Broto and Louise Guibrunet  8. Exploring the epistemic politics of urban niche wxperiments Matthew Cook, Ralph Horne, Stephen Potter and Alan-Miguel Valdez  9. It’s the complexity stupid! How transition management politicises and reimagines Rotterdam’s mobility system Shivant Jhagroe and Derk Loorbach  10. Conclusions and perspectives Jens Stissing Jensen, Philipp Späth and Matthew Cashmore

O autorze

Jens Stissing Jensen is Assistant Professor, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Matthew Cashmore is Professor in Environmental Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.

Philipp Späth is Senior Scientist / Research Group Coordinator at the Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany.