Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1186/s42854-022-00031-x
Elena Schägg, S. L. Becker, P. Pradhan
{"title":"Thwarted visions of change: power and demographics in repair cafes and urban sustainability transitions","authors":"Elena Schägg, S. L. Becker, P. Pradhan","doi":"10.1186/s42854-022-00031-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-022-00031-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75286,"journal":{"name":"Urban transformations","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47599254","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}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2022-07-28DOI: 10.1186/s42854-022-00041-9
Sarah Burch, Jose DiBella, Arnim Wiek, Stefan Schaltegger, Wendy Stubbs, Megan Farrelly, Barry Ness, Kes McCormick
The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, and the unprecedented social and economic costs it has inflicted, provide an important opportunity to scrutinize the interplay between the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the resilience of the communities they are embedded in. In this article, we articulate the specific ways that SMEs play a crucial, and underappreciated role in building resilience to human and natural hazards, and provide new opportunities to accelerate the adoption of sustainability practices through the configuration of 'enabling ecosystems' geared towards promoting sustainability in the private sector. We argue that capacity-building and experimentation are not only required within companies, but also throughout this emerging supportive ecosystem of policies, resources (i.e. finance, materials, skills), governance actors, and intermediaries to adequately focus investment, technical capabilities and innovation. Ultimately, we call for a new transdisciplinary action research agenda that centers on SMEs as pivotal actors and amplifiers of community resilience; while recognizing that these firms are themselves in need of support to secure their own capacity to respond to, and transform in light of, crises. This research program calls for recognizing and applying the lessons that the pandemic presents to the urgent need for accelerated climate action. This will be enabled by developing more targeted approaches to collaborative capacity-building activities in SMEs that feed into experimentation and allow for the accelerated adoption of deliberate and strategic resilient business practices and models.
{"title":"Building urban resilience through sustainability-oriented small- and medium-sized enterprises.","authors":"Sarah Burch, Jose DiBella, Arnim Wiek, Stefan Schaltegger, Wendy Stubbs, Megan Farrelly, Barry Ness, Kes McCormick","doi":"10.1186/s42854-022-00041-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42854-022-00041-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, and the unprecedented social and economic costs it has inflicted, provide an important opportunity to scrutinize the interplay between the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the resilience of the communities they are embedded in. In this article, we articulate the specific ways that SMEs play a crucial, and underappreciated role in building resilience to human and natural hazards, and provide new opportunities to accelerate the adoption of sustainability practices through the configuration of 'enabling ecosystems' geared towards promoting sustainability in the private sector. We argue that capacity-building and experimentation are not only required within companies, but also throughout this emerging supportive ecosystem of policies, resources (i.e. finance, materials, skills), governance actors, and intermediaries to adequately focus investment, technical capabilities and innovation. Ultimately, we call for a new transdisciplinary action research agenda that centers on SMEs as pivotal actors and amplifiers of community resilience; while recognizing that these firms are themselves in need of support to secure their own capacity to respond to, and transform in light of, crises. This research program calls for recognizing and applying the lessons that the pandemic presents to the urgent need for accelerated climate action. This will be enabled by developing more targeted approaches to collaborative capacity-building activities in SMEs that feed into experimentation and allow for the accelerated adoption of deliberate and strategic resilient business practices and models.</p>","PeriodicalId":75286,"journal":{"name":"Urban transformations","volume":" ","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9330953/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40576439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1186/s42854-022-00047-3
Heather Mackay, Richard Tusabe, Frank Mugagga
This research focuses on the food, farming and health experiences of two secondary cities of Uganda (Mbale and Mbarara), comparing findings with studies of primary African cities. We draw from survey data, focus groups with healthcare professionals, and in-depth interviews with varied residents. A feminist geographic perspective explored intersections of food, farming and health with varied aspects of identity, and with place (city itself, but also with rural areas). By comparing our secondary city findings to findings from primary African cities this paper sheds light on whether and how food systems in secondary African cities are transforming, and how urban life at this scale is being experienced. Our analysis suggests a good deal of similarity of food insecurity, dietary diversity, and of non-communicable disease experiences and understandings. The main difference was around the food access strategies, the access to land, and the engagement with agriculture and interaction with the rural. How this might change as these secondary cities grow further is not clear but there should not be an assumption that primary city experiences will inevitably be followed. Our findings offer important insights for future research and for those planning for Ugandan and potentially other African secondary city futures. In comparison to primary SSA cities our findings suggest less advance along theorised nutritional transitions (greater hybridity), a higher relevance of the rural for viable urban lives, yet comparable experience of non-communicable disease. This is intriguing, has implications for theory, and warrants further research.
{"title":"Similar, yet different! Comparing Ugandan secondary cities' food system and nutritional transformations to findings from African primary cities.","authors":"Heather Mackay, Richard Tusabe, Frank Mugagga","doi":"10.1186/s42854-022-00047-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42854-022-00047-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research focuses on the food, farming and health experiences of two secondary cities of Uganda (Mbale and Mbarara), comparing findings with studies of primary African cities. We draw from survey data, focus groups with healthcare professionals, and in-depth interviews with varied residents. A feminist geographic perspective explored intersections of food, farming and health with varied aspects of identity, and with place (city itself, but also with rural areas). By comparing our secondary city findings to findings from primary African cities this paper sheds light on whether and how food systems in secondary African cities are transforming, and how urban life at this scale is being experienced. Our analysis suggests a good deal of similarity of food insecurity, dietary diversity, and of non-communicable disease experiences and understandings. The main difference was around the food access strategies, the access to land, and the engagement with agriculture and interaction with the rural. How this might change as these secondary cities grow further is not clear but there should not be an assumption that primary city experiences will inevitably be followed. Our findings offer important insights for future research and for those planning for Ugandan and potentially other African secondary city futures. In comparison to primary SSA cities our findings suggest less advance along theorised nutritional transitions (greater hybridity), a higher relevance of the rural for viable urban lives, yet comparable experience of non-communicable disease. This is intriguing, has implications for theory, and warrants further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":75286,"journal":{"name":"Urban transformations","volume":"4 1","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9795152/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10468642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1186/s42854-021-00028-y
A. Karvonen, V. Cvetkovic, Pawel Herman, K. Johansson, H. Kjellström, Marco Molinari, M. Skoglund
{"title":"The ‘New Urban Science’: towards the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary pursuit of sustainable transformations","authors":"A. Karvonen, V. Cvetkovic, Pawel Herman, K. Johansson, H. Kjellström, Marco Molinari, M. Skoglund","doi":"10.1186/s42854-021-00028-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-021-00028-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75286,"journal":{"name":"Urban transformations","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44234148","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}
Pub Date : 2021-09-07DOI: 10.1186/s42854-021-00023-3
Rianne Riemens, Carolin Nast, P. Pelzer, M. Hurk
{"title":"An assessment framework for safeguarding public values on mobility platforms","authors":"Rianne Riemens, Carolin Nast, P. Pelzer, M. Hurk","doi":"10.1186/s42854-021-00023-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-021-00023-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75286,"journal":{"name":"Urban transformations","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44119515","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}
Pub Date : 2021-02-17DOI: 10.1186/s42854-021-00018-0
Brett J. M. Petzer, A. Wieczorek, G. Verbong
{"title":"The legal street: a scarcity approach to urban open space in mobility transitions","authors":"Brett J. M. Petzer, A. Wieczorek, G. Verbong","doi":"10.1186/s42854-021-00018-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-021-00018-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75286,"journal":{"name":"Urban transformations","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s42854-021-00018-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44282493","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}
Pub Date : 2021-02-12DOI: 10.1186/s42854-021-00019-z
K. Hölscher, N. Frantzeskaki
{"title":"Perspectives on urban transformation research: transformations in, of, and by cities","authors":"K. Hölscher, N. Frantzeskaki","doi":"10.1186/s42854-021-00019-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-021-00019-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75286,"journal":{"name":"Urban transformations","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s42854-021-00019-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45435748","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}
Pub Date : 2021-01-30DOI: 10.1186/s42854-021-00020-6
K. Buyana, J. Walubwa, P. Mukwaya, S. Lwasa, S. Owuor
{"title":"City residents, scientists and policy-makers: power in co-producing knowledge","authors":"K. Buyana, J. Walubwa, P. Mukwaya, S. Lwasa, S. Owuor","doi":"10.1186/s42854-021-00020-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-021-00020-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75286,"journal":{"name":"Urban transformations","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s42854-021-00020-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45113447","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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