A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Urban commons and collective action to address climate change
Climate change and the coupled loss of ecosystem services pose major collective action problems in that all individuals would benefit from better cooperation to address these problems but conflicting interests and/or incomplete knowledge discourage joint action. Adopting an inductive and multi‐layered approach, drawing upon the authors’ previous research on urban commons, we here summarize key insights on environmentally oriented urban commons and elaborate on what role they have in instigating climate‐proofing activities in urban areas. We deal with three types of urban commons, i.e., “urban green commons,” “coworking spaces,” and “community climate commons.” We describe how allotment gardens, community gardens, and other types of urban green commons contribute to environmental learning that may boost under‐ standing of environmental issues and which constitute important learning arenas for climate‐change mitigation and adap‐ tation. We also deal with the newly emerging phenomenon of coworking spaces that share many essential institutional attributes of urban commons and which can work for climate‐change mitigation through the benefits provided by a shar‐ ing economy and through reduction of domestic transportation and commuting distance. Community climate commons represent commons where local communities can mobilize together to create shared low‐carbon assets and which hold the potential to empower certain segments and civil society groups so that they can have greater influence and ownership of the transformation of reaching net‐zero carbon goals. We conclude this article by identifying some critical determinants for the up‐scaling of environmentally oriented urban commons. ; This research has been supported through a grant facilitated by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra) and FORMAS, within the research program Fair Transformation to a Fossil Free Future (FAIRTRANS), hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. The work is also supported through means ...
Urban commons and collective action to address climate change
Climate change and the coupled loss of ecosystem services pose major collective action problems in that all individuals would benefit from better cooperation to address these problems but conflicting interests and/or incomplete knowledge discourage joint action. Adopting an inductive and multi‐layered approach, drawing upon the authors’ previous research on urban commons, we here summarize key insights on environmentally oriented urban commons and elaborate on what role they have in instigating climate‐proofing activities in urban areas. We deal with three types of urban commons, i.e., “urban green commons,” “coworking spaces,” and “community climate commons.” We describe how allotment gardens, community gardens, and other types of urban green commons contribute to environmental learning that may boost under‐ standing of environmental issues and which constitute important learning arenas for climate‐change mitigation and adap‐ tation. We also deal with the newly emerging phenomenon of coworking spaces that share many essential institutional attributes of urban commons and which can work for climate‐change mitigation through the benefits provided by a shar‐ ing economy and through reduction of domestic transportation and commuting distance. Community climate commons represent commons where local communities can mobilize together to create shared low‐carbon assets and which hold the potential to empower certain segments and civil society groups so that they can have greater influence and ownership of the transformation of reaching net‐zero carbon goals. We conclude this article by identifying some critical determinants for the up‐scaling of environmentally oriented urban commons. ; This research has been supported through a grant facilitated by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra) and FORMAS, within the research program Fair Transformation to a Fossil Free Future (FAIRTRANS), hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. The work is also supported through means ...
Urban commons and collective action to address climate change
Colding, Johan (author) / Barthel, Stephan (author) / Ljung, Robert (author) / Eriksson, Felix (author) / Sjöberg, Stefan (author)
2022-01-01
ISI:000761001000003
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Market-oriented solutions for groundwater commons through collective-action
| DOAJ | 2023
Collective Action in Urban Renewal Projects
| Springer Verlag | 2024
Women and Collective Action in Urban Neighborhoods
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995