2018
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-018-1117-9
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Building actor-centric transformative capacity through city-university partnerships

Abstract: Cities worldwide are rising to the challenge of sustainable development, calling for large-scale and fastpaced transformations towards sustainability. Urban sustainability challenges are now being reframed as a lack of capacity of individuals and organizations to carry out such socio-technical transformations. This article expands on transformative capacity literature by elucidating the concept of actor-centric transformative capacity. It focuses on the unique role city-university partnerships (CUPs) can play … Show more

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“…New forms of interaction between local governments and local scientists for the development of urban TC then also form the focus of the last paper in this special issue. Withycombe Keeler et al (2019) explore how cities and universities in the US engage in partnerships addressing urban transformations, drawing on the cases of Portland/ Oregon and Tempe/Arizona. They identify four key determinants that affect the resulting change in capacity, namely (1) the confidence built through the partnership for adopting new approaches towards sustainability and resilience, (2) novel competencies acquired by the administration for addressing complex system change, (3) the commitment obtained from a broader range of government departments and leading individuals, and (4) power shifts favoring transformation tasks within the administration and in relation to the university.…”
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“…New forms of interaction between local governments and local scientists for the development of urban TC then also form the focus of the last paper in this special issue. Withycombe Keeler et al (2019) explore how cities and universities in the US engage in partnerships addressing urban transformations, drawing on the cases of Portland/ Oregon and Tempe/Arizona. They identify four key determinants that affect the resulting change in capacity, namely (1) the confidence built through the partnership for adopting new approaches towards sustainability and resilience, (2) novel competencies acquired by the administration for addressing complex system change, (3) the commitment obtained from a broader range of government departments and leading individuals, and (4) power shifts favoring transformation tasks within the administration and in relation to the university.…”
Section: Overview Of Contributionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We argue that this intermediation gap thus needs a dedicated response, supporting existing brokers or designing new ones with a profile tailored to a given divide: ambassadors of the urban poor (Ziervogel 2019), publiccivic hybrids for urban regeneration communities (Wolfram 2019), and new dialogue formats connecting actors across levels and domains (Borgström 2019) are pertinent examples for this. In addition, the potential of local universities needs to be unlocked, especially in the form of broader and durable partnerships that can enable a variety of intermediation and support roles (Withycombe Keeler et al 2019), but also in more selective collaborations focused on cross-domain strategy making (Glaas et al 2019). In these cases, local universities have become critical enablers of urban TC in that they provide novel skills and competencies while simultaneously facilitating new dialogues, thereby catalyzing a reconfiguration of urban governance structures.…”
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