TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation
AU - Webb, Bob
AU - Bai, Xuemei
AU - Stafford Smith, Mark
AU - Costanza, Robert
AU - Griggs, David
AU - Moglia, Magnus
AU - Neuman, Michael
AU - Newman, Peter
AU - Newton, Peter
AU - Norman, Barbara
AU - Ryan, Chris
AU - Schandl, Heinz
AU - Steffen, Will
AU - Tapper, Nigel
AU - Thomson, Giles
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social-ecological-technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders, has progressed such an approach in the Australian context, aiming to also contribute to international knowledge development and sharing. This process has generated three outputs: (1) a shared framework to support more systematic knowledge development and use, (2) identification of barriers that create a gap between stated urban goals and actual practice, and (3) identification of strategic focal areas to address this gap. Developing integrated strategies at broader urban scales is seen as the most pressing need. The knowledge framework adopts a systems perspective that incorporates the many urban trade-offs and synergies revealed by a systems view. Broader implications are drawn for policy and decision makers, for researchers and for a shared forward agenda.
AB - Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social-ecological-technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders, has progressed such an approach in the Australian context, aiming to also contribute to international knowledge development and sharing. This process has generated three outputs: (1) a shared framework to support more systematic knowledge development and use, (2) identification of barriers that create a gap between stated urban goals and actual practice, and (3) identification of strategic focal areas to address this gap. Developing integrated strategies at broader urban scales is seen as the most pressing need. The knowledge framework adopts a systems perspective that incorporates the many urban trade-offs and synergies revealed by a systems view. Broader implications are drawn for policy and decision makers, for researchers and for a shared forward agenda.
U2 - 10.1007/s13280-017-0934-6
DO - 10.1007/s13280-017-0934-6
M3 - Article
VL - Online
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
JF - AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
ER -