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在土地利用规划和管理、食品和饮食、能源生产、运输和流动性以及实现净零政策目标等各种问题上的生活和工作方式。与可持续发展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，并且常常成为分歧、价值观争论以及公平或公正判断的场所；例如，最近关于牛津所谓“15分钟城市”的争议以及关于政治干预和与自由相关的交通措施的争论。这些“热点”不仅与它们出现的地方相关，而且与全国范围内提供可持续发展场所的辩论和政策行动相关。这些热点问题引发了一些重要问题，例如如何在不同地理范围内管理常见的可持续发展转型、过去的冲突如何塑造当今的争论以及不同利益集团促进和经历的参与的类型和水平。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，以及可持续生活治理的变革如何能够促进与社区的合作方式，从而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基于地方的可持续发展争论，以解决冲突的本地和非本地原因。GSF 汇集了社会科学家和区域科学家的独特合作（英国德文郡）合作伙伴与国家合作伙伴有着悠久的合作历史，通过新颖且成熟的社会科学和参与性方法来解决这个问题，这些方法对权力和社会差异问题保持警惕。这些合作关系支撑着研究计划，将共同生产、平等多样性和包容性 (EDI) 以及可持续发展原则融入我们的研究实践中。GSF 提出了与工作包相关的四个总体目标，反映了我们识别、分析和干预可持续发展的理论方法。政策冲突：开发一种方法，帮助我们理解冲突的本地和非本地原因，这些冲突发生在特定地方，但也与其他地方有联系，并随着时间的推移而演变。提出思考地方和地方之间关系的新方法有助于为可持续政策冲突找到新的解决方案。开发创新的协作和参与方法来应对基于地方的可持续发展冲突（英国德文郡）并应用于实地的政策挑战。对参与过程如何产生新的理解可以支持公众和利益相关者参与当地和非当地可持续发展冲突的原因，并推动英国公正转型的行动。 GSF 的核心原则是在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性研究方法、地方和可持续转型理论、环境政策和政治、环境争议方面的领先专家，以及公正的过渡，加上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配套资金支持，这反映了巨大的研究协同作用和机构对应用该项目知识的承诺。我们将共同制定及时的政策见解，以实现公平和可持续的地方。