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ARTS was a research project to understand how transition initiatives can accelerate sustainability transitions in the five European city-regions of Brighton, Budapest, Dresden, Genk, and Stockholm.

General introduction

Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions to Sustainability (ARTS) project contributed to the ongoing academic debates by unpacking the dynamics of governance for transitions to sustainability. It was a three-year-long research project (2013-2016) funded by the European Commission through the FP7 programme. The research in the ARTS project responds to two societal challenges: First, it supports governance in city-regions by revealing how transition initiatives source, mobilize and instrumentalise resources to realize and scale sustainable solutions. Second, it contributes to the understanding of transformative and societal governance processes that play out in making European city-regions more sustainable and socially inclusive through the scaling of transition initiatives. It created a multitude of dialogue spaces for knowledge sharing and knowledge co-production including scientists, communities and local governments.

Main insights on/for sustainable just cities

Lam., D.P.M., Martin-Lopez, B., Bennett, E.M., Frantzeskaki, N., Milcu-Horcea, A.I., Wiek, A., and Lang, D.J., (2020), Scaling the impact of local initiatives in sustainability transformations: an amplifying typology, Urban Transformations, 2:3, https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-020-00007-9.

On mechanisms for scaling the impact of local sustainability initiatives

Loorbach, D., Wittmayer, J., Avelino, F., von Wirth, T., Frantzeskaki, N., (2020), Tranformational innovation and translocal diffusion, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 35, 251-260, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2020.01.009

Elmqvist, T., Andersson, E., Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Folke, C., Olsson, P., Gaffney, O., and Takeuchi, K., (2019), Sustainability, resilience and transformation in the urban century, Nature Sustainability, Nature Sustainability, 2, 267–273 -- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0250-1, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0250-1

Borgström, S. Balancing diversity and connectivity in multi-level governance settings for urban transformative capacity. Ambio 48, 463–477 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-01142-1

Frantzeskaki, N., and Rok, A. (2018), Co-producing urban sustainability transitions knowledge with community, policy and science, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 29, 47-51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2018.08.00124

Ehnert, F., Frantzeskaki, N., Barnes, J., Borgstrom, S., Gorissen, L., Kern, F., Strenchock, L., and Egermann, M., (2018), The acceleration of urban sustainability transitions: a comparison of Brighton, Budapest, Dresden, Genk and Stockholm, Sustainability, 2018.

Valkering, P., Yucel, G., Gebetsroither-Geringer, E., Markvica, K., Meynaerts, E., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2017), Accelerating transition dynamics in city-regions: a qualitative modeling perspective, Sustainability, 9, 1254; doi:10.3390/su9071254

Ehnert, F., Kern, F., Borgstrom, S., Gorissen, L., Maschmeyer, S., Egermann, M., (2018), Urban sustainability transitions in a context of multi-level governance: A comparison of four European states, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 101-116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2017.05.002

Frantzeskaki, N., Dumitru, A., Anguelovski, I., Avelino, F., Bach, M., Best, B., Binder, C., Barnes, J., Carrus, J., Egermann, M., Haxeltine, A., Moore, M.L., Mira, R.G., Loorbach, D., Uzzell, D., Omman, I., Olsson, P., Silvestri, G., Stedman, R., Wittmayer, J., Durrant, R., and Rauschmeyer, F., (2016), Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 41-50.

Frantzeskaki, N., Haase, D., Fragkias, M., and Elmqvist, T., (2016), Urban transitions to sustainability and resilience, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, iv-viii.

Wolfram, M., Frantzeskaki, N., and Maschmeyer, S., (2016), Cities, Systems and sustainability: status and perspective of research on urban transformations, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 18-25.

Christopher Luederitz, Niko Schäpke, Arnim Wiek, Daniel J Lang, Matthias Bergmann, Joannette J Bos, Sarah Burch, Anna Davies, James Evans, Ariane König, Megan A Farrelly, Nigel Forrest, Niki Frantzeskaki, Robert B Gibson, Braden Kay, Derk Loorbach, Kes McCormick, Oliver Parodi, Felix Rauschmayer, Uwe Schneidewind, Michael Stauffacher, Franziska Stelzer, Gregory Trencher, Johannes Venjakob, Philip J Vergragt, Henrik von Wehrden, Frances R Westley, (2017), Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluation scheme for sustainability transition experiments, Journal of Cleaner Production, 169, 61-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.005

Haase, D., Kabisch, S., Haase, A., Andersson, E., Banzhaf, E., Baro, F., Brenck, M., Fischer, L.K., Frantzeskaki, N., Kabisch, N., Krellenberg, K., Kremer, P., Kronenberg, J., Larondelle, N., Mathey, J., Pauleit, S., Ring, I., Rink, D., Schwarz, N., and Wolf, M., (2017), Greening cities - To be socially inclusive? About the alleged paradox of society and ecology in cities, Habitat International, 64, 41-48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2017.04.005

Elmqvist, T., Bai. X., Frantzeskaki, N., Griffith, C., Maddox, D., McPhearson, T., Parnell, S., Romero-Lankao, P., Simon, D., Watkins, M (Eds). 2017. Urban Planet. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107196933 (BOOK).

Frantzeskaki, N., Castan-Broto, V., Coenen, L., and Loorbach, D., (Eds) (2017), Urban sustainability transitions, Routledge: New York, ISBN 978-0-415-78418-4 (BOOK).

Gorissen, L., and Meyers, E., (Eds), (2017), The city of the future - How urban change makers scale positive change, Loonoo Publishing. (ARTS book)

Frantzeskaki, N., Borgstrom, S., Gorissen, L., Egermann, M., and Ehnert, F., (2017), Nature-based solutions accelerating urban sustainability transitions in cities, in Kabisch, N., Korn, H., Stadler. J., and Bonn, A., (Eds), Nature‐based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas ‐ Linkages between Science, Policy and Practice, SPRINGER, ISBN: 978-3-319-53750-4, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56091-5. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-56091-5

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