Call for abstracts for Special Session on “SS45. Rethinking just Sustainability Transitions in Regions and Cities” at the Regional Studies Association Annual Conference 2024 (11-14 June, Florence).
The special session to explore the challenges of just sustainability transitions in regions and cities. The session is organised under the banner of two Horizon Europe research projects exploring to topic of participation in place-based just sustainability transitions – DUST – Democratising jUst Sustainability Transitions (https://lnkd.in/d9iJGhnf) and BOLSTER (https://lnkd.in/dmy6EgyY). We invite contributions from researchers investigating place-based sustainability transition policies and citizen participation therein.
In particular, we welcome paper proposals based on new and original empirical material that explore the following questions from a diversity of methodological and conceptual perspectives:
– Citizen participation tools and methods for involving the least engaged and/or vulnerable communities in just sustainability transition policies in cities and regions;
– Regional and local narratives, storytelling and citizen perceptions of regional and urban sustainability transitions;
– Operationalisation of digital and/or design-based tools for governing sustainability transitions;
– Develop the stakeholders’ capabilities and ‘futures literacy’ in the context of planning sustainable regional and urban futures;
– Making citizen participation work in multi-level sustainability transition policies;
– Operationalisation of the concept of active subsidiarity in the context of the EU Just Transition Fund and the European Green Deal;
– Cross-fertilisation and synergies between EU Cohesion Policy, just sustainability transition policies, and spatial planning;
– Spatial justice, territorial cohesion, and ‘geographies of discontent’ in the context of regional and urban sustainability transitions;
– New conceptual lens to explore just sustainability transitions in cities and regions.
More information on the event and submission page can be found here.
Marcin Dąbrowski 