Balancing diversity and connectivity in multi-level governance settings for urban transformative capacity.

ABSTRACT: Transformation towards sustainable development is about findings new ways of thinking, organising and doing to navigate wicked challenges such as climate change and urbanisation. Such challenges call for new governance modes that match the complexity of the systems to be handled, where multi-level governance and collaborative approaches have been suggested to contribute to such transformative capacity building. This in-depth, trans-disciplinary study investigates how the multi-level governance context in Stockholm, Sweden, influences the transformative capacity from the perspective of local sustainability initiatives. It was found that even though the decentralized governance of the Stockholm region hosts a great potential in supporting city wide transformation, it is hampered by disconnec

SUBMITTER: Borgstrom S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6462285 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature