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1. The new way to transition your city
Derk Loorbach
Drift, Erasmus University
Climate in Energy Transition, 21-11-2012
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3. Persistent unsustainability
• Global changes cause pressure
▫ Globalisation, geopolitice, climate change, resource
issues, demographic change
• Our current societal systems are destabilising
▫ Energy supply, housing, social services, mobility,
health care
• We are living in transitional times
▫ non-linearity, uncertainties and unpredictability
(Rotmans et al, 2001)
▫ Overshoot day: august 22 (1981: dec. 11)
▫ Budget deficits: 3% vs ecological deficit: 35%
5. Transitions?
• A recurring pattern of societal change
• A possibility for rapid shifts towards sustainability
• A conceptual model to structure societal
innovation, past, present and future
A tool for social construction: if you think it
they will come (or not…)
7. Transitions are…
• A fundamental change in dominant
regimes
– Culture, structure, practice
• Long-term, unmanageable processes
– But can be influenced
• Require new forms of governance
– Coordinated self-organisation
8. society
Transition arenaRegular policy arena
- Short term
- Peloton
- Incremental change
- Problem- and goal oriented
- Long term
- Change agents
- System-innovation
- Problem- and goal searching
Transition arenas
9. Transitions are about finding…
• …a new way of thinking
• … a new way of working
• …a new way of planning
• …a new way of organising
• …a new development pathway
12. MUSIC Objectives
• Overall aim: catalyze and mainstream carbon and energy
reduction in urban policies, activities and the build
environment.
• Objectives:
▫ Mobilising stakeholders to take action towards CO2 reduction -
development of a transnationally applicable Transition
Management Strategy.
▫ Integrating ‘Energy’ in urban planning and enable monitoring of
effects - development of a Geospatial Urban Energy
Information and Support System.
▫ More effective energy reduction measures in cities: learning by
doing in innovative pilots that put the developed strategies
and tools into practice in different national contexts.
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14. PROCESS
• Information based transition process
• Visualising and quantifying transition
scenarios and visions
• Assessing potential, problems and
perspectives
17. Major challenges
• Transitioning policy and organisations
• Building up capacity for transition
• Shifting from frontrunners to mainstream
18. MUSIC delivers
• New strategies and tools for transition
– Tested and refined in 5 different cities
– Harvesting information, arena, experiments
• Concrete examples of urban sustainability
transitions
– Pilots, agenda’s, events, activities, initiatives
