Developing transformative capacity through systematic assessments and visualization of urban climate transitions.

ABSTRACT: Transforming cities into low-carbon, resilient, and sustainable places will require action encompassing most segments of society. However, local governments struggle to overview and assess all ongoing climate activities in a city, constraining well-informed decision-making and transformative capacity. This paper proposes and tests an assessment framework developed to visualize the implementation of urban climate transition (UCT). Integrating key transition activities and process progression, the framework was applied to three Swedish cities. Climate coordinators and municipal councillors evaluated the visual UCT representations. Results indicate that their understanding of UCT actions and implementation bottlenecks became clearer, making transition more governable. To facilitate UCT, invol

SUBMITTER: Glaas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6462282 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature