Operationalising just sustainability: towards a model for place-based governance

George, Colleen; Reed, Maureen G.

doi:10.1080/13549839.2015.1101059

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“…The place-based, neo-endogenous model implies central government support for regional and local bottom-up initiatives for development and well-being, facing one particular territory (natural or economic region, agglomeration, etc. ), often requiring cooperation between stakeholders from fragmented administrative areas [7][8][9]. Integrated planning in this context is understood to involve drawing together local social, economic and ecological issues, rather than focusing only on, for instance, technical infrastructure [10].…”

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From Single-Use Community Facilities Support to Integrated Sustainable Development: The Aims of Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Poland, 1990–2018

Furmankiewicz

Campbell

2019

Sustainability

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The paper explores and compares the aims of the three most common legal forms of inter-municipal cooperation in Poland (engaging rural, urban-rural and urban municipalities) during the years 1990-2018: Mono-sectoral Special Purpose Unions, Municipal Associations and cross-sectoral Local Action Groups. Content analysis was applied and development priorities from the statutes and strategies were studied. The main form of territorial association evolved from, initially, mono-functional bodies concerned mainly with local infrastructural investment and managed solely by a group of local authorities, to a devolved type, consisting of multi-purpose associations managed with the participation of economic and third sector representatives. This was the result of the European Union policy of promoting territorial governance and integrated development in functional regions, this being considered as part of the process of Europeanisation. However, these successive forms of municipal cooperation do not appear to have replaced the pre-existing forms, but they have introduced additional modes of governance of local resources. The findings show that the most "integrated" and "sustainable" management of local resources is observed mainly in cross-sectoral partnerships, like Local Action Groups, but not so often in mono-sectoral municipal unions and associations led solely by local government and focused more on hard infrastructure and municipal facilities. However, given the specialisation shown by each of the three types of association, it is likely that the full range of development possibilities in the areas concerned can only be realised if all three forms of cooperation are present. The analysis confirms the positive role of local economic and social sector participation in shaping sustainable development. The findings also indicate the utility of the concept of cross-sectoral territorial partnerships in post-socialist and post-authoritarian countries lacking traditions of grassroots or participative development.Sustainability 2019, 11, 5890 2 of 21 be seen as facilitating a "neo-endogenous" or "integrated place based" model of development, in contrast to a top-down, exogenous and sectoral model focusing on single issues such as transport or agriculture and managed solely by government [4][5][6]. The place-based, neo-endogenous model implies central government support for regional and local bottom-up initiatives for development and well-being, facing one particular territory (natural or economic region, agglomeration, etc.), often requiring cooperation between stakeholders from fragmented administrative areas [7][8][9]. Integrated planning in this context is understood to involve drawing together local social, economic and ecological issues, rather than focusing only on, for instance, technical infrastructure [10]. It is often closely related to "sustainable" development, which involves an additional concern with long-term retention of local natural resources [11][12][13]. In the countries where these processes first emerged,...

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From Single-Use Community Facilities Support to Integrated Sustainable Development: The Aims of Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Poland, 1990–2018

Furmankiewicz

Campbell

2019

Sustainability

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“…It is an open question whether what is essentially a rather circumscribed formal agreement between negotiating technocrats has the necessary flexibility to operate in communities where the dominant institutions are informal and place-based (George and Reed 2017). For example, while some scholars who study C2C cooperation identify inadequate expertise in one city as one of the barriers which the partner city can address through knowledge transfer (De Villiers et al 2007;Tjandradewi and Marcotullio 2009), more critical voices observe that public administrators in the South already tend to have a lot of the knowledge that is being transferred but they oftentimes do not act on this knowledge because, 'they had few, if any powers, to determine what to do' (Atkinson 2001, p. 275).…”

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“…We contribute by critically assessing their potential as effective mechanisms for promoting sustainability in the Global South. We are interested in addressing the open question of whether C2Cs can dually handle sustainability governance and international cooperation, two objectives which can conflict (George and Reed 2017). To that end, we employ a qualitative content analysis of seven published case studies of bilateral C2Cs that link cities from Northern countries to cities in Latin America.…”

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Can city-to-city cooperation facilitate sustainable development governance in the Global South? Lessons gleaned from seven North-South partnerships in Latin America

Mayer

Long

2020

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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The search for mechanisms that can bolster sustainable development governance is underway. Bilateral city-to-city partnerships (C2C) have been put forward as platform through which cities can strengthen sustainable development in urban landscapes. Here, we critically examine claims about the capacity of these international cooperative arrangements, originally designed and deployed as development aid delivery mechanisms, to promote sustainable development. Our systematic examination of the extant literature on bilateral North-South C2C in Latin America fails to provide sufficient evidence that C2C can deliver on its promise to promote robust governance, both generally and in the specific context of sustainable development. Instead, it seems that C2C is more likely to support than challenge entrenched practices which can weaken sustainable development governance. Identifying these tendencies is a first step in formulating strategies that may enhance C2Cs and other transnational partnerships aimed at improving urban sustainable development in the Global South.

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“…Embedded in the transition literature, is the notion of transition management (Wittmayer et al 2015; Kemp et al 2007, which particularly describes governance processes aimed towards a particular sustainability transition. Less frequently mentioned in the literature are concepts such as placebased governance, which describes governance directed at empowering of local communities (see George and Reed 2017) and private governance which is centred on private nonstate actors (Fuchs et al 2011; Pattberg 2006. Such collaborative and reflexive forms of governance attempt to address the key criticisms of dominant and more traditional governance structures (Stirling 2014; Marsden 2013; Voss and Bornemann, 2011Voß and Bornemann, 2011: firstly, what is seen as the inability of practitioners and policymakers to sufficiently cope with complexity and uncertainties, often leading to the application of simplistic solutions to multifaceted problems (Rijke et al 2012); secondly, collaborative governance can include a range of actors from different backgrounds that would otherwise not be included.…”

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Addressing food poverty in systems: governance of food assistance in three European countries

2018

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Italy), where she teaches a masters' course on policies for the food system policies. She completed a Ph.D. in 'Economics and Territory', University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy) with a thesis on multicriteria assessment of impacts on the EU food quality polity and Geographical Indications. She continued to worked for six years as a post doctoral researcher (University of Pisa, Italy) on European FP7 and H2020 multi actor research projects (FOODLINKS; GLAMUR; TRANSMANGO, SALSA, ROBUST). Her research interests focuses on food systems and food and nutrition security, socioeconomic and environmental impacts of sustainable agriculture and food, support policies for smallholder farming and rural development policies at local and regional levels, public food procurement, food supply chain economics and agrifood standards.

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Operationalising just sustainability: towards a model for place-based governance

Cited by 38 publications

References 34 publications

From Single-Use Community Facilities Support to Integrated Sustainable Development: The Aims of Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Poland, 1990–2018

From Single-Use Community Facilities Support to Integrated Sustainable Development: The Aims of Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Poland, 1990–2018

Can city-to-city cooperation facilitate sustainable development governance in the Global South? Lessons gleaned from seven North-South partnerships in Latin America

Addressing food poverty in systems: governance of food assistance in three European countries

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