Plan of work for developing a strategy to support Sustainable and Resilient Economic Activity Locally (SREAL): Deliverable 6.7 of the TURAS Project
Creators: name: Van Den Abeele, Patrick
name: Vandergert, Paula
name: Collier, Marcus J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Urban land policy
Circular economy
Cities
Social Innovation
Social cohesion
Urban planning
Urban transformation
Sustainability
Resilience
Urban Policy
Governance
Transitioning
PSS
Integration
Adaptive governance
Brussels
Economics

description: This report proceeds from the research work of the TURAS project, working package 6: Short Circuit Economies. The overall goal of the work package is to produce a model for urban resilience and sustainability transitioning. Within the TURAS project, this work package examines ways to improve urban resilience at the economic and business scale. The deliverables that will be produced will all focus on the supportive instruments that could be implemented by local authorities to enhance an increased reliance on local goods and services within the urban areas. The academic partners in work package 6 will critically review the concepts linked to achieving local, sustainable economic resilience and what are the important conditions for local authorities to provide the right framework for the transition towards resilience of urban economies. In the light of a new approach to establishing guidelines for fostering innovation, a decision was taken to use the concepts and insights of the literature on ‘adaptive governance’, and apply them to the research and evaluation of a series of case studies, each of which is dedicated to testing a public intervention to support local and sustainable economic activity. This has not been attempted in an urban economic setting. In designing this interaction between the research and the local authority partner case studies, this new aim is to produce a novel framework of analysis of economic resilience, to produce policy recommendations and to elaborate a practical tool for the use by a local authority to support economically resilient cities. Adaptive governance and collaborative processes are explicitly mentioned as core challenges in urban resilience planning within the original call of topic. This is also under investigation in different disciplines within TURAS work packages (2,3, and 4), but they are not expressly addressed through the research of those work packages. Therefore, a new research framework incorporating adaptive governance concepts provides a useful analytical framework for work package 6 to integrate within the general architecture of the different research work packages of TURAS. The research results will combine into the overall integration strategy for transitioning towards resilience at local level that TURAS is aiming to deliver in 2016. Furthermore, the outputs in terms of research around governance from an academic point of view and also from a practical point of view could contribute to cement the bonds between the different WPs and give consistency to the transversal layer of the different WPs. <strong>For additional information on this deliverable please email Paula Vandergert at p.vandergert@uel.ac.uk.</strong> <strong>For additional information on the TURAS project see here, or email marcus.collier@tcd.ie.</strong>
description: Suggested citation: Kampelmann, Stephan, Vandergert, Paula and Collier, Marcus J. (2015) Plan of work for developing a strategy to support Sustainable and Resilient Economic Activity Locally (SREAL). Deliverable 6.7 of the TURAS FP7 Project. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3941486.