Developing Knowledge-Intensive Low Carbon Transitions. Contexts, Challenges and Consequences Simon Marvin and Beth Perry http://www.surf.salford.ac.uk “Cities of Tomorrow” Workshop 1: Urban Challenges European Commission, DG Regional Policy Tuesday 29 th June 2010
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Developing Knowledge-Intensive Low Carbon Transitions.Contexts, Challenges and Consequences
Simon Marvin and Beth Perryhttp://www.surf.salford.ac.uk
Elites: corporate, governments, major institutions
Social Interests Wide stakeholders, potential beneficiaries and participants
Divisible Concepts of Economic and Ecological Security
Collective
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Gaps in Understanding: A ‘Missing Middle’
• ‘Missing Middle’ between expectations, capacities and capability
• Devolution of responsibility without resource• Social processes characterised by ‘making do or improvisation’.• Research resources used to inform standalone evaluation
rather than city-regional learning.• Poor communication amongst stakeholders about knowledge
needs leads to inefficient use of resources.• Weak mechanisms for mediating between stakeholders and
HEIs in understanding how needs and responses could be mutually constructed
• An absence of a space for thinking without consequence to develop, test and critique ideas and policies in a structured and systematic way
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Challenges
• Configuring discourses and visions?• Assumptions and presumptions?• Cities as passive or active, receiving or mediating sites of
activity?• Local experiments, upscaling and managed systemic
transitions?• Actors involved, how positioned, coalitions of power and
interest?• Capacities and capabilities of different cities to respond?• Social and material consequences of transitions? • Where is the space for alternatives to be discussed, conceived
and implemented, by whom and with what effects?• What knowledge is needed and how to inform more sustainable