Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic:Towards Enhanced Transnational Cooperation in Remote Regions.

欧洲北极的可持续城市发展：加强偏远地区的跨国合作。

• 批准号: 426674468
• 负责人: Dr. Dorothea Wehrmann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/426674468?language=en
• 关键词: Sustainable; Urban; Development; European; Arctic

The proposed project investigates how transnational cooperation among urban areas of remote regions can be enhanced to better harmonize sustainable development practices. By combining theoretical and empirical analysis, the project team compares decision-processes on sustainable development practices through the lenses of participatory approaches in seven selected cities located in the European Arctic. Based on this analysis, a framework will be developed that identifies pathways to enhance the harmonization of policies on sustainable urban development transnationally. In this regard, this research goes beyond existing knowledge as it focuses specifically on remote regions, and as such on the Arctic. Following the idea of interactive governance, the main research hypothesis is that urban development in the Arctic will be more sustainable if simultaneously the positions of local stakeholders are reflected in decision-processes and policies are aligned across the national and regional levels. Currently, urban development in the European Arctic seem to be shaped to a varying degree by both national and sub-national policies of the different Arctic states, and also by international arrangements such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The main research goals are to answer the questions of why approaches differ throughout the European Arctic and how Arctic urban development can be steered more effectively in alliance with local and global policies. The research team will conduct qualitative and quantitative research, including content analysis of relevant policy and legislative documents and a critical reading of the scientific literature. Additionally, the team will organize focus interviews with local stakeholders (residents, businesses, civil society organizations, representatives from local administrations, and elected officials) in seven selected case study cities in the European Arctic to verify and expand on the information gained from the document analysis. The project opens new insights to main features of governance identified in urban governance literature: political and institutional constraints imposed on cities, different types of available resources and relationship between the city and society, including its transnational form. The research contributes to conceptual debates on transnational cooperation and local governance. The research further adds to the emerging debate on human activities in the Arctic region that contribute to climate change and its complex effects in and beyond the region. The outcomes of the project are also of relevance for political practitioners engaged in decision-processes in the European Arctic, for the European Union and the implementation of its Arctic Policy and for the Arctic Council, to which Germany and Poland are observer states.

拟议的项目探讨如何加强偏远地区城市地区之间的跨国合作，以更好地协调可持续发展做法。通过结合理论和经验分析，项目小组通过参与性方法的视角，比较了位于欧洲北极地区的七个选定城市的可持续发展做法的决策过程。在此分析的基础上，将制定一个框架，确定加强跨国可持续城市发展政策协调的途径。在这方面，这项研究超越了现有的知识，因为它特别侧重于偏远地区，因此对北极。根据互动治理的理念，主要的研究假设是，如果在决策过程中同时反映当地利益攸关方的立场，并在国家和区域两级协调政策，北极的城市发展将更具可持续性。目前，欧洲北极地区的城市发展似乎在不同程度上受到不同北极国家的国家和地方政策以及2030年可持续发展议程和联合国气候变化框架公约下的巴黎协定等国际安排的影响。主要研究目标是回答为什么整个欧洲北极地区的方法不同，以及如何与当地和全球政策结盟，更有效地引导北极城市发展的问题。研究小组将进行定性和定量研究，包括对相关政策和立法文件进行内容分析，并对科学文献进行批判性阅读。此外，该小组还将在欧洲北极地区的七个选定案例研究城市组织与当地利益攸关方（居民、企业、民间社会组织、地方政府代表和民选官员）的重点访谈，以核实和扩大从文件分析中获得的信息。该项目为城市治理文献中确定的治理主要特征提供了新的见解：对城市施加的政治和体制限制，不同类型的可用资源以及城市与社会之间的关系，包括其跨国形式。这项研究有助于关于跨国合作和地方治理的概念辩论。这项研究进一步增加了关于北极地区人类活动的新辩论，这些活动导致了气候变化及其在该地区内外的复杂影响。该项目的成果还与参与欧洲北极决策进程的政治工作者、欧洲联盟及其北极政策的执行以及德国和波兰为观察员国的北极理事会有关。