Abstract
Despite signing the Mayors Climate Change Agreement, few US cities have made significant progress in either climate mitigation or adaptation. For the most part, European cities have been more effective, albeit with assistance from the European Union and their national governments. Several of the most successful European cities have implemented eco-districts, which have offered many lessons for overall sustainability planning. Using Malmö, Sweden as a case study, we ask how planners and elected officials learned from implementing an eco-district, focusing on experimentation with new technologies and approaches to planning. We identify how “double-loop learning”, a term coined by Argyris and Shön, was at play in changing planning practice. As eco-districts are catching on in North American cities, there is much to be learned from European practice.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 364-380 |
| Journal | Environment and Planning C. Government and Policy |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
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Keywords
- climate adaptation
- climate mitigation
- environmental governance
- environmental policy
- local climate action
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Eco-districts : can they accelerate urban climate planning? / Fitzgerald, Joan; Lenhart, Jennifer.
In: Environment and Planning C. Government and Policy, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2016, p. 364-380.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Eco-districts
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AU - Fitzgerald, Joan
AU - Lenhart, Jennifer
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Despite signing the Mayors Climate Change Agreement, few US cities have made significant progress in either climate mitigation or adaptation. For the most part, European cities have been more effective, albeit with assistance from the European Union and their national governments. Several of the most successful European cities have implemented eco-districts, which have offered many lessons for overall sustainability planning. Using Malmö, Sweden as a case study, we ask how planners and elected officials learned from implementing an eco-district, focusing on experimentation with new technologies and approaches to planning. We identify how “double-loop learning”, a term coined by Argyris and Shön, was at play in changing planning practice. As eco-districts are catching on in North American cities, there is much to be learned from European practice.
AB - Despite signing the Mayors Climate Change Agreement, few US cities have made significant progress in either climate mitigation or adaptation. For the most part, European cities have been more effective, albeit with assistance from the European Union and their national governments. Several of the most successful European cities have implemented eco-districts, which have offered many lessons for overall sustainability planning. Using Malmö, Sweden as a case study, we ask how planners and elected officials learned from implementing an eco-district, focusing on experimentation with new technologies and approaches to planning. We identify how “double-loop learning”, a term coined by Argyris and Shön, was at play in changing planning practice. As eco-districts are catching on in North American cities, there is much to be learned from European practice.
KW - climate adaptation
KW - climate mitigation
KW - environmental governance
KW - environmental policy
KW - local climate action
U2 - 10.1177/0263774X15614666
DO - 10.1177/0263774X15614666
M3 - Article
VL - 34
SP - 364
EP - 380
JO - Environment and Planning C. Government and Policy
JF - Environment and Planning C. Government and Policy
SN - 0263-774X
IS - 2
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