Urban Regions Shifting to Circular Economy: Understanding Challenges for New Ways of Governance
Autor: | Erwin Heurkens, Marcin Dąbrowski, Maria Federica Palestino, Cecília Mezei, Arianne Acke, Gilda Berruti, Alessandro Arlati, Konrad Czapiewski, Marcin Wójcik, Andreas Obersteg, Viktor Varjú, Jörg Knieling |
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Přispěvatelé: | Obersteg, A., Arlati, A., Acke, A., Berruti, G., Czapiewski, K., Dabrowski, M., Heurkens, E., Mezei, C., Palestino, M. F., Varju, V., Wojcik, M., Knieling, J. |
Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
recycling management
Process (engineering) Raumplanung und Regionalforschung 0211 other engineering and technologies challenges 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Urban area 01 natural sciences Abfallwirtschaft 12. Responsible consumption lcsh:HT165.5-169.9 Politics Abfall Order (exchange) Political science 11. Sustainability Regional science media_common.cataloged_instance waste Peri-urban area Challenge 021108 energy European union ddc:710 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Landscaping and area planning Städtebau Raumplanung Landschaftsgestaltung Governance geography geography.geographical_feature_category Corporate governance Circular economy Area Development Planning Regional Research circular economy 1. No poverty peri-urban areas lcsh:City planning Kreislaufwirtschaft Urban Studies Waste generation governance 13. Climate action Stadtregion waste management urban region urban area |
Zdroj: | Urban Planning Urban Planning, 4(3) Urban Planning, Vol 4, Iss 3, Pp 19-31 (2019) Facilitating Circular Economy in Urban Planning |
ISSN: | 2183-7635 |
DOI: | 10.17645/up.v4i3.2158 |
Popis: | Urban areas account for around 50% of global solid waste generation. In the last decade, the European Union has supported numerous initiatives aiming at reducing waste generation by promoting shifts towards Circular Economy (CE) approaches. Governing this process has become imperative. This article focuses on the results of a governance analysis of six urban regions in Europe involved in the Horizon 2020 project REPAiR. By means of semi-structured interviews, document analysis and workshops with local stakeholders, for each urban area a list of governance challenges which hinder the necessary shift to circularity was drafted. In order to compare the six cases, the various challenges have been categorized using the PESTEL-O method. Results highlight a significant variation in policy contexts and the need for these to evolve by adapting stakeholders’ and policy-makers’ engagement and diffusing knowledge on CE. Common challenges among the six regions include a lack of an integrated guiding framework (both political and legal), limited awareness among citizens, and technological barriers. All these elements call for a multi-faceted governance approach able to embrace the complexity of the process and comprehensively address the various challenges to completing the shift towards circularity in cities. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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