Governing Sustainable Futures: Advancing the use of Participatory Mechanisms for addressing Place-based Contestations of Sustainable Living

治理可持续未来：推进利用参与机制来解决基于地方的可持续生活竞赛

• 批准号: ES/Z502789/1
• 负责人: Rebecca Jane Sandover
• 金额: $ 187.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FZ502789%2F1
• 关键词: Governing; Sustainable; Futures; Advancing; use

Delivering sustainability transitions in diverse places across the UK entails changes in how we live and work across diverse issues such as land use planning and management, food and diet, energy production, transport and mobility and achieving net zero policy goals. The changes associated with sustainability transitions can be perceived in terms of winners and losers, incumbents and change-leaders, and often act as loci of disagreement, contestation over values and judgements about what is fair or just; for example, the recent controversy on the so-called '15-minute city' and debates about political intervention and freedom associated transport measures in Oxford. These 'flashpoints' are relevant not only to the places in which they emerge, but also for debate and policy action on delivering sustainable places nationally. Such flashpoints raise important issues about how common sustainability transitions are governed at different geographic scales, the ways in which past conflicts shape present-day contestation and the types and levels of engagement promoted and experienced by different interest groups. Accordingly, we need to understand what makes for a flashpoint issue on sustainable living: how such issues emerge, how they are framed, and how changes to governing sustainable living can promote ways of working with communities that promote participation and the co-production of solutions. The Governing Sustainable Future (GSF) project aims to examine how we can build new ways of understanding and acting on place-based sustainability contestations that address the local and non-local causes of conflict.GSF brings together a unique collaboration of social scientists and regional (Devon, UK) partners, who have a long history of working together, along with national partners, to address this question through novel and established social science and participatory approaches that are alert to questions of power and social difference. These collaborative relations underpin the research programme, embedding Co-production, Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Sustainability principles in our research practice.GSF addresses four overarching aims associated work packages, that reflect our theoretical approach to identifying, analysing and intervening in sustainable policy conflicts:To develop an approach that helps us to understand local and non-local causes of conflicts that emerge in a particular place but also have connections to other places and evolve over time.To present new ways of thinking about places and relations between places that can help to unlock new solutions to sustainably policy conflicts.To develop innovative collaborative and participatory methods for responding to place-based sustainability conflicts (in Devon, UK) and apply to policy challenges on the ground.To generate new understandings of how participatory processes can support public and stakeholder engagement with the local and non-local causes of place-based sustainability conflicts, and progress action on just transitions in the UK. A core principle of GSF will be to make clear connections between insights from regional experience and recommendations for national policy and practice.Our team includes leading experts in discursive and participatory research methods, theories of place and sustainable transitions, environmental policy and politics, environmental controversy, and just transitions, plus key regional policy and practice organisations. Team members play a leading role in other major UKRI investments into sustainable living. The University of Exeter will provide match-fund support, which reflect considerable research synergies and institutional commitment to applying knowledge from this project. Together we will co-produce timely policy insights for achieving equitable and sustainable places.

在英国各地实现可持续发展转型需要改变我们的生活和工作方式，涉及土地使用规划和管理、食品和饮食、能源生产、交通和流动性以及实现净零政策目标等各种问题。与可持续性转型相关的变化可以从赢家和输家、现任者和变革领导者的角度来看待，而且往往是分歧的所在地，对价值观的争论以及对公平或公正的判断;例如，最近关于所谓的“15分钟城市”的争议以及关于牛津大学政治干预和自由相关交通措施的辩论。这些“爆发点”不仅与它们出现的地方有关，而且与在全国范围内提供可持续场所的辩论和政策行动有关。这些爆发点提出了一些重要问题，如如何在不同的地理范围内管理共同的可持续性过渡，过去的冲突如何影响当今的可持续性，以及不同利益集团推动和经历的参与类型和程度。因此，我们需要了解是什么导致了可持续生活的热点问题：这些问题是如何出现的，它们是如何形成的，以及管理可持续生活的变化如何促进与社区合作的方式，促进参与和共同制定解决方案。治理可持续未来（GSF）项目旨在研究我们如何建立新的方式来理解和采取行动，解决当地和非当地冲突原因的基于地方的可持续发展问题。（德文郡，英国）合作伙伴，他们有着悠久的合作历史，沿着与国家合作伙伴，通过新颖和成熟的社会科学以及对权力和社会差异问题保持警惕的参与性方法来解决这一问题。这些合作关系是研究计划的基础，在我们的研究实践中嵌入了共同生产，平等多样性和包容性（EDI）和可持续性原则。GSF解决了四个总体目标相关的工作包，反映了我们识别，分析和干预可持续政策冲突的理论方法：开发一种方法，帮助我们了解当地和非-冲突的地方原因，出现在一个特定的地方，但也有连接到其他地方，并随着时间的推移而演变。提出新的方式思考的地方和之间的关系地方，可以帮助解锁新的解决方案，以可持续的政策冲突。发展创新的合作和参与的方法，以应对基于地方的可持续性冲突（在英国德文郡），并应用于当地的政策挑战。为了对参与式进程如何支持公众和利益相关者参与解决基于地点的可持续性冲突的当地和非当地原因产生新的理解，在英国的公正过渡方面取得进展。GSF的一个核心原则是将来自区域经验的见解与国家政策和实践的建议之间建立明确的联系。我们的团队包括话语和参与式研究方法、地方和可持续转型理论、环境政策和政治、环境争议和公正转型方面的领先专家，以及关键的区域政策和实践组织。团队成员在UKRI对可持续生活的其他主要投资中发挥着主导作用。埃克塞特大学将提供匹配基金支持，这反映了相当大的研究协同作用和机构承诺，应用知识，从这个项目。我们将共同提出及时的政策见解，以实现公平和可持续的地方。