Cities are searching for policy strategies able to meet climate and social targets while reducing their material footprint. To this end, post-growth approaches to urban sustainability have been rapidly gaining momentum. Rejecting the idea of green growth, the notion of post-growth includes a variety of agendas and approaches—for example, well-being economy, circular economy, degrowth, and doughnut economics. City officials, urban agencies, and policymakers recognize these terms as part of a same policy trend, one that focuses on the socio-ecological quality of urban development rather than its size. Yet, they often use them interchangeably and, in so doing, they risk making policy scenarios seem less incisive and inconsistent to the public. This commentary gives a guideline to the use of these terms in policy. It compares the terms of post-growth, degrowth, circular economy, and doughnut economics. It argues that post-growth is an approach, the doughnut is a tool, degrowth is an agenda, and circular economy is a business model. The article concludes with a manifesto for a post-growth city, a set of principles that can be used to build an urban post-growth policy strategy.
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Chris Foulds, Govert Valkenburg, Marianne Ryghaug, Ivana Suboticki, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, Marius Korsnes, Sara Heidenreich
Policy institutions have been increasingly investing in demonstrators, pilots, living labs, testbeds, and so forth, that focus on novel experimental approaches to dealing with climate change. In particular, cities have been advocated as ideal innovation sites for such experiments. However, we argue that insufficient attention has been given to accommodating the different forms of knowledge included and produced through the design, implementation, and evaluation of these city experiments (i.e., epistemic inclusion). This article presents 10 recommendations for city policy officers and other stakeholders involved in delivering mission-oriented programmes of work to achieve epistemic inclusion in their attempts to drive innovation in cities. In illustrating our arguments, we engage with the EU Horizon Europe Mission of Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities as one example of such a programme. 100 European Cities have been selected as front-runners in this Mission. The Mission will support these 100 cities in becoming “experimentation and innovation hubs” ( European Commission, 2021b , p. 13) on route to all 100 cities becoming climate-neutral by 2030. These cities are only now starting their journeys and would greatly benefit from strategically considering epistemic inclusion issues. Establishing dialogues that are more open to controversies and paradoxes, failures, and a diversity of knowledge frameworks increases the chances for these cities to successfully address the complex and ramified challenges they face.
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Cities are well positioned to lead the process of successfully transitioning employment away from fossil fuel production and use, and toward sustainable energy systems and related products and services. Cities have more diverse and flexible labour markets. And while over half of direct fossil jobs are located in cities, the skills and qualifications associated with those urban fossil fuel positions are highly transferable to other roles. Cities will also be at the forefront of investments in public transportation, retrofitted and energy-efficient buildings, and other infrastructure, which will create many opportunities for new, sustainable work. For all these reasons, cities have the opportunity to lead a successful and fair transition in employment as the energy revolution continues. To fulfill this potential, however, that transition must be planned in advance and supported with a range of measures that assist fossil fuel workers in moving to a wide range of different alternative opportunities. This article considers the elements and best practices of successful transition planning, stressing how engaging the full range of labour market adjustment channels (including retirement, retraining, and relocation), this transition could be completed without involuntary layoffs or undue dislocation.
{"title":"Cities Can Lead the Energy Employment Transition … but They Must Plan for It","authors":"Jim Stanford","doi":"10.3138/jccpe-2023-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jccpe-2023-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Cities are well positioned to lead the process of successfully transitioning employment away from fossil fuel production and use, and toward sustainable energy systems and related products and services. Cities have more diverse and flexible labour markets. And while over half of direct fossil jobs are located in cities, the skills and qualifications associated with those urban fossil fuel positions are highly transferable to other roles. Cities will also be at the forefront of investments in public transportation, retrofitted and energy-efficient buildings, and other infrastructure, which will create many opportunities for new, sustainable work. For all these reasons, cities have the opportunity to lead a successful and fair transition in employment as the energy revolution continues. To fulfill this potential, however, that transition must be planned in advance and supported with a range of measures that assist fossil fuel workers in moving to a wide range of different alternative opportunities. This article considers the elements and best practices of successful transition planning, stressing how engaging the full range of labour market adjustment channels (including retirement, retraining, and relocation), this transition could be completed without involuntary layoffs or undue dislocation.","PeriodicalId":497723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136173207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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