Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach

Branny, Artur; Møller, Maja Steen; Korpilo, Silviya; McPhearson, Timon; Gulsrud, Natalie Marie; Olafsson, Anton Stahl; Raymond, Christopher M.; Andersson, Erik

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101168

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“…There have been successful initiatives and failed projects [21]. Until the late 1980s, the Soviet Union's innovation system was one of the two most prolific invention systems on the planet, attributed to institutional experiments [23]. The height of Russian inventiveness occurred during the Soviet era [21].…”

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Measuring the Entrepreneurial Mindset: The Motivations behind the Behavioral Intentions of Starting a Sustainable Business

2022

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The aim of this study was to investigate the entrepreneurial mindset that underlies the behavioral intentions of starting a sustainable business. The research was driven by the factors that are the key drivers of the economy through fostering growth, job creation, technology adoption, and innovation, as well as poverty alleviation. The research adopted a descriptive research design, with the primary data collected from those respondents with at least two years of sustainable business experience. The model comprised entrepreneurial education, innovativeness, and risk-taking as the independent variables, creativity as a mediating variable, and entrepreneurial intention as the dependent variable. The research adopted structural equation modeling to analyze the research objective and verify the hypothesis. The findings indicate that entrepreneurial education, innovativeness, and creativity significantly and positively influence entrepreneurs’ intention to start a sustainable business. Creativity was found to be influenced significantly and positively by entrepreneurial education, risk-taking, innovativeness, and creativity. The research recommends that to enhance the entrepreneurial mindset and the intention to start a sustainable business, the factors that should be enhanced are entrepreneurial education, innovativeness, and creativity. Innovation leads to the development of new products and services in the market; entrepreneurship education equips a person with entrepreneurship fundamentals, while creativity fosters the progress of a sustainable business toward achieving its objectives.

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Section: The Russian Innovation Parallaxmentioning

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Measuring the Entrepreneurial Mindset: The Motivations behind the Behavioral Intentions of Starting a Sustainable Business

2022

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“…The SETS literature is growing rapidly, and includes scholarship on the relationship between urban SETS and disturbance (Grimm et al 2017 ; Lugo 2019 , 2020 ), the use of SETS to reduce urban flood risk (Chang et al 2021 ), enhancing positive SETS feedbacks to address heat- and drought-induced stresses on urban ecosystems (Wellmann et al 2023 ), the governance and environmental justice implications of urban SETS (Pineda-Pinto et al 2021 ; Krueger et al 2022 ), and the multifunctional ecosystem services provided by SETS (McPhearson et al 2022 ). Branny et al ( 2022 ) drew on this literature to present a systems approach for "smarter, greener" cities that utilizes SETS-based integrated solutions rather than more traditional, single-dimensional, technology-heavy solutions. Chester et al ( 2020 ) made a strong case for the vulnerability of exclusively engineered infrastructure in the face of a future of uncertainty.…”

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“…This scenario and future visioning development exercise used the SETS conceptual framework to guide visioning processes, including ensuring that all participants considered social, ecological, and technological aspects of both challenges and solutions. Additionally, taking the systems approach forward meant examining SETS couplings (McPhearson et al 2021 ; Branny et al 2022 ). This meant examining the social–ecological (S–E), social–technological (S–T), and ecological–technological (E–T) dimensions, dynamics, and feedbacks of climate impacts and deep future solutions (Fig.…”

Section: Box 3: New York City’s Climate Adaptation Scenariosmentioning

confidence: 99%

A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities

Frantzeskaki,

Childers,

Pickett

et al. 2024

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This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline—ecology in the city—to an increasingly interdisciplinary field—ecology of the city—to a transdisciplinary, knowledge to action endeavor—an ecology for and with the city. We build on this “prepositional journey” by proposing a transformative shift in urban ecology, and we present a framework for how the field may continue this shift. We conceptualize that urban ecology is in a state of flux, and that this shift is needed to transform urban ecology into a more engaged and action based field, and one that includes a diversity of actors willing to participate in the future of their cities. In this transformative shift, these actors will engage, collaborate, and participate in a continuous spiral of knowledge → action → knowledge spiral and back to knowledge loop, with the goal of co producing sustainable and resilient solutions to myriad urban challenges. Our framework for this transformative shift includes three pathways: (1) a repeating knowledge → action → knowledge spiral of ideas, information, and solutions produced by a diverse community of agents of urban change working together in an “urban sandbox”; (2) incorporation of a social–ecological–technological systems framework in this spiral and expanding the spiral temporally to include the “deep future,” where future scenarios are based on a visioning of seemingly unimaginable or plausible future states of cities that are sustainable and resilient; and (3) the expansion of the spiral in space, to include rural areas and places that are not yet cities. The three interrelated pathways that define the transformative shift demonstrate the power of an urban ecology that has moved beyond urban systems science and into a realm where collaborations among diverse knowledges and voices are working together to understand cities and what is urban while producing sustainable solutions to contemporary challenges and envisioning futures of socially, ecologically, and technologically resilient cities. We present case study examples of each of the three pathways that make up this transformative shift in urban ecology and discuss both limitations and opportunities for future research and action with this transdisciplinary broadening of the field.

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“…Smart solutions in a holistic systems framework can generally align with sustainability and extend to fairness, power, agency, nature-based solutions, ecological resilience, etc. [6]. Smart building systems ease and comfort environmental, social and economic systems.…”

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Utilizing Smart Systems to Enhance the Sustainability of Egyptian Administrative Buildings

Konbr¹,

Abdelaal²

2022

cea

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Smart buildings have grabbed the attention of researchers since the 1980s. Until now, there has been no specific definition for smart buildings, which came from modern technologies and applications that rely on smart systems, significantly affecting the construction industry. Based on the importance of the administrative building sector in Egypt, this study proposed a general framework enumerating smart systems that positively impact this sector at the environmental, social, and economic levels (the three key pillars of sustainability). Various methods were used, including induction, descriptive, analysis, survey, and deduction. It enumerated and analyzed the Egyptian context through three case studies to reveal the gap between their current situation and the one hoped for in its three categories, Smart Security and Safety Systems, Smart Auxiliary Systems, and Smart Entertainment Systems. The findings of this study for the first category showed an average of 47% for security systems and 67% for safety systems. The category of smart auxiliary systems was divided into five sub-categories, showing 39% in climatic control systems, 60% in energy management systems, 100% in HVAC control systems, 50% in lighting control systems, and 56% in water management systems. Finally, the smart entertainment systems category was divided into three sub-categories, showing 42% in Wi-Fi and Internet systems, 44% in video surveillance systems, and 67% in sound and video intercom systems. Therefore, these quantitative findings represent promising results that motivate the Egyptian context to move forward in this direction by using smart systems to improve the sustainability of Egyptian administrative buildings.

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Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach

Cited by 43 publications

References 76 publications

Measuring the Entrepreneurial Mindset: The Motivations behind the Behavioral Intentions of Starting a Sustainable Business

Measuring the Entrepreneurial Mindset: The Motivations behind the Behavioral Intentions of Starting a Sustainable Business

A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities

Utilizing Smart Systems to Enhance the Sustainability of Egyptian Administrative Buildings

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