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The Rockefeller Foundation initiated a nine-year Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)
in ten initial cities and four countries1 in 2008. ACCCRN seeks to strengthen the capabilities of cities to plan,
finance and implement urban climate change resilience (UCCR) strategies for coping with the inevitable impacts
of climate change taking place now, and in the decades to come.
“Why Information Matters: a foundation for resilience” is
part of Embracing Change: The Critical Role of Information,
funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to
support the Internews’ Center for Innovation and Learning’s
research on the role of information ecosystems in building
resilience. Many thanks to the Rockefeller Foundation, and
especially to Sundaa Bridgett-Jones, Associate Director,
International Development, for vital input and support.
This document outlines an agenda for a hands-on workshop on systemic design. The workshop will introduce participants to the systemic design toolkit and have them work through cases. It will include presentations on systemic design and the toolkit, identifying leverage points in a food waste system case, developing intervention strategies, and creating generic and contextual intervention models. Participants will present their models and discuss how the toolkit and approach could be applied and improved. The goal is to help participants solve complex challenges using a solution-oriented systemic design process.
Boundary organizations like Land & Water Australia are inherently vulnerable due to tensions at the science-policy interface. LWA aimed to provide leadership in sustainable natural resource management through knowledge generation and informing debate. However, it struggled with the complex, long-term challenges of NRM issues that span disciplines and sectors. Lessons from LWA's demise include the need for boundary organizations to be agile, far-sighted brokers that can navigate the politics of science and policy.
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Cities around the world are facing challenges brought about by rapid increases in population and geographic spread, which places greater pressure on infrastructure and services. Climate change impacts, including rising sea level, more frequent and severe storms, coastal erosion and declining freshwater sources will likely exacerbate these urban issues, in particular in poor and vulnerable communities that lack adequate infrastructure and services.
Globally, the impacts of climate change on urban areas have received less attention than on rural areas where poverty levels are higher and populations depend directly on climate-sensitive livelihoods. However, more than 50% of the world’s population currently lives in cities. By 2050, this figure is expected to increase to 70%, or 6.4 billion people, and Asian cities are likely to account for more than 60% of this increase. Urban areas are the economic powerhouses that support both the aspirations of the poor and most national economies. Furthermore, urban residents and the economic activity they generate depend on systems that are fragile and often subject to failure under the combination of climate and development pressures. If urban systems fail, the potential direct and indirect impacts of climate change on urban residents in general, on poor and vulnerable populations, and on the wider economy is massive. As a result, work on urban climate resilience is of critical importance in overall global initiatives to address the impacts of climate change.
The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) works at the intersection of climate change, urban systems and social vulnerability to consider both direct and indirect impacts of climate change in urban areas.
The 2021 Cleantech Open Northeast Impact Report summarizes the program's activities and accomplishments for the year. It highlights that the program grew internationally, with startups participating from multiple countries. Princeton NuEnergy of New Jersey won the National Grand Prize. The report provides statistics on the diversity of the 2021 cohort and lists the regional winners. It also summarizes events like the regional finals, global forum, and the support provided to help startups scale their impact.
Ten Cities, Four Countries, Five Years: Lessons on the Process of Building Ur...The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation initiated a nine-year Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)
in ten initial cities and four countries1 in 2008. ACCCRN seeks to strengthen the capabilities of cities to plan,
finance and implement urban climate change resilience (UCCR) strategies for coping with the inevitable impacts
of climate change taking place now, and in the decades to come.
“Why Information Matters: a foundation for resilience” is
part of Embracing Change: The Critical Role of Information,
funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to
support the Internews’ Center for Innovation and Learning’s
research on the role of information ecosystems in building
resilience. Many thanks to the Rockefeller Foundation, and
especially to Sundaa Bridgett-Jones, Associate Director,
International Development, for vital input and support.
This document outlines an agenda for a hands-on workshop on systemic design. The workshop will introduce participants to the systemic design toolkit and have them work through cases. It will include presentations on systemic design and the toolkit, identifying leverage points in a food waste system case, developing intervention strategies, and creating generic and contextual intervention models. Participants will present their models and discuss how the toolkit and approach could be applied and improved. The goal is to help participants solve complex challenges using a solution-oriented systemic design process.
Boundary organizations like Land & Water Australia are inherently vulnerable due to tensions at the science-policy interface. LWA aimed to provide leadership in sustainable natural resource management through knowledge generation and informing debate. However, it struggled with the complex, long-term challenges of NRM issues that span disciplines and sectors. Lessons from LWA's demise include the need for boundary organizations to be agile, far-sighted brokers that can navigate the politics of science and policy.
A reflection on connecting complexity theory and design for policyRSD7 Symposium
This document discusses connecting complexity theory and design for policy. It argues that complexity theory provides tools and perspectives to understand complex policy problems and systems. Design approaches are also well-suited for complex, uncertain contexts. The document reviews how complexity, design, and policy relate and influence each other. It aims to start building a shared vocabulary between these domains to help innovation in policymaking for complex issues.
Cities around the world are facing challenges brought about by rapid increases in population and geographic spread, which places greater pressure on infrastructure and services. Climate change impacts, including rising sea level, more frequent and severe storms, coastal erosion and declining freshwater sources will likely exacerbate these urban issues, in particular in poor and vulnerable communities that lack adequate infrastructure and services.
Globally, the impacts of climate change on urban areas have received less attention than on rural areas where poverty levels are higher and populations depend directly on climate-sensitive livelihoods. However, more than 50% of the world’s population currently lives in cities. By 2050, this figure is expected to increase to 70%, or 6.4 billion people, and Asian cities are likely to account for more than 60% of this increase. Urban areas are the economic powerhouses that support both the aspirations of the poor and most national economies. Furthermore, urban residents and the economic activity they generate depend on systems that are fragile and often subject to failure under the combination of climate and development pressures. If urban systems fail, the potential direct and indirect impacts of climate change on urban residents in general, on poor and vulnerable populations, and on the wider economy is massive. As a result, work on urban climate resilience is of critical importance in overall global initiatives to address the impacts of climate change.
The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) works at the intersection of climate change, urban systems and social vulnerability to consider both direct and indirect impacts of climate change in urban areas.
The 2021 Cleantech Open Northeast Impact Report summarizes the program's activities and accomplishments for the year. It highlights that the program grew internationally, with startups participating from multiple countries. Princeton NuEnergy of New Jersey won the National Grand Prize. The report provides statistics on the diversity of the 2021 cohort and lists the regional winners. It also summarizes events like the regional finals, global forum, and the support provided to help startups scale their impact.
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Public procurement of innovation boosting green growth in MED area
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2. It summarizes findings from the Global Comparative Study on REDD+ which assessed REDD+ policies and projects in 6 countries and found modest impacts on reducing deforestation and mixed effects on community well-being.
3. It argues that for REDD+ to be more effective, programs need to support large-scale reforms that incentivize conservation, economic efficiency, and government budgets, rather than remain as small projects. Impact assessments also need to better evaluate REDD+ outcomes.
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1) The document discusses new challenges for the evaluation community given the urgent need for action on issues like climate change and biodiversity loss.
2) It argues that evaluation needs to move beyond just examining whether past policies worked and instead support systemic change and transitions to sustainability.
3) Evaluation should be integrated into the policy process and consider long time frames given the slow pace of transitions and risk of lock-in to unsustainable paths.
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1) Participants identified strengthening the economy, improving access to opportunity, and ensuring safe and healthy communities as top planning goals.
2) Top objectives included keeping/creating well-paying jobs, ensuring infrastructure supports economic development, and connecting housing and transportation.
3) When asked about their communities, participants liked access to open space and rural character but wanted more affordable housing, downtown businesses, and transportation options.
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2) It argues that evaluation needs to move beyond just examining whether past policies worked and instead support systemic change and transitions to sustainability.
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2) Top objectives included keeping/creating well-paying jobs, ensuring infrastructure supports economic development, and connecting housing and transportation.
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Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
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MASTER THESIS
1. 1
“We all do better when we work together.
Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.”
(Bill Clinton)
2. Leverage Points for Effective
Cross-Sector Collaboration
in Eco-municipalities
Looking at Eindhoven Case Study
Maaike M. Boumans Xiaojing Fei Silvia Martín
2
Thesis Defense / Master in Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability / Blekinge Institute of Technology / 28 May 2013
4. Sustainability Challenge
Nature and its complex ecosystems are currently being systematically
exhausted, eventually reaching a point where our ecological niche is destroyed
and where the human race can no longer be sustained (Robèrt 2000)
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
(adapted from Robèrt et al. 2010) 4
5. Challenges of Cities
• more than 50% of the world’s population
is living in cities
• 70% of the greenhouse gases
• consume 75% of the world's energy
• from urban inequality to air pollution, and
from resource management to
overpopulation
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
5
6. Cities are Complex Systems
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
6
… need for a systems perspective and a strategic approach
7. Framework for Strategic Sustainable
Development
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
7
a strategic planning tool using a systems perspective to deal
with complex sustainability problems
8. Framework for Strategic Sustainable
SYSTEM
SUCCESS
STRATEGIC
ACTIONS
TOOLS
Development
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
Understanding of the socio-ecological system, the
Sustainability Challenge, and the interconnections between
nested systems
8
9. In a sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically increasing...
...concentrations of substances extracted from the Earth’s crust;
...concentrations of substances produced by society;
...degradation by physical means;
And, in that society...
...people are not subject to conditions that systematically
undermine their capacity to meet their needs.
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
Framework for Strategic Sustainable
Development
Vision of success aligned with the four Sustainable Principles
SYSTEM
SUCCESS
STRATEGIC
ACTIONS
TOOLS 9
10. BACKCASTING FROM PRINCIPLES:
1. Begin with the end in mind
2. Move backwards from the vision to the present
3. Move step by step towards the vision
1. Does the action proceed in the right direction with respect to
the Sustainability Principles?
2. Does the action provide a flexible platform for future
improvements?
3. Is this action likely to produce a sufficient return on
investment to further catalyse the process?
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
Framework for Strategic Sustainable
Development
THREE PRIORITISATION QUESTIONS:
SYSTEM
SUCCESS
STRATEGIC
STRATEGIC
ACTIONS
ACTIONS
ACTIONS
TOOLS TOOLS
10
11. • Voluntary process
• Three societal sectors (Government, Business and NGOs)
• Work together
• Share knowledge and learning
• Achieve a common goal
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
Cross-Sector Collaboration (CSC)
Biosphere
Society
Cities
CSC
11
12. CSC FRAMEWORK
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
INITIAL CONDITIONS
PROCESS STRUCTURE AND
GOVERNANCE
CONTINGENCIES
(adapted from Bryson Crosby and Stone 2006)
AND
CONSTRAINTS
OUTCOMES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
12
13. Eco-municipality
• First Eco-municipality in Finland in 1980
• 70 cities and towns in Sweden
• Spread around the world
• Using FSSD as a guide for sustainability
• Develop ecological, economical, and social healthy
community for long term
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
13
14. “There is little expertise in the complex process of convening diverse
groups of institutions to achieve common goals.”
(TNS Canada 2013) 14
15. PURPOSE of THESIS
to gain the insight into effective CSC in
Eco-municipalities
and
inform the FSSD in the context of CSC
in Eco-municipalities
INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
15
16. What are Leverage Points?
places within a complex system where a small
shift in one thing can produce big changes
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17. Primary Research Question
What are the potential leverage points for effective
Cross-Sector Collaboration in Eco-municipalities?
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SUPPORTING RESEARCH QUESTION 1:
What defines an effective CSC?
SUPPORTING RESEARCH QUESTION 2:
What are the enablers and barriers for effective CSC in Eco-municipalities?
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH QUESTION:
What are the leverage points for an effective CSC in an Eco-municipality
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18. Conceptualize in FSSD
• CSC in Eco-municipality in socio-ecological system
• What are the enablers and barriers for effective CSC
in Eco-municipalities? (SRQ2)
• What are the potential leverage points for effective
CSC in Eco-municipalities? (PRQ)
SYSTEM
• 4SPs
• Vision
• What is an effective CSC? (SRQ1)
SUCCESS
• Backcasting
• 3 Prioritization Questions
• Additional Prioritization Question based on LP (PRQ)
STRATEGIC
• What actions ACTIONS can contribute to effective CSC?
TOOLS • What tools can help to have more effective CSC?
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19. SCOPE
This study is focused on Eco-municipalities in the
US, Canada and Europe
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AUDIENCE
Practitioners in Eco-municipalities
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20. SRQ2
PRQ
Informed FSSD in the
context of CSC in
Eco-municipalities ARQ
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METHODS
Semi-structured Interview
Experts and
practitioners
interviews
In-depth Case
Study
Data coding and aggregation
187 E/S/B
Literature Case Studies
SRQ1
Content Analysis
16 Lens Factors
Data reduction and clustering
45 Potential Leverage points
Causal Loop Diagram
9 Leverage points
for In-depth Case Study
21. INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
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SUPPORTING RESEARCH QUESTION 1:
What defines an effective CSC?
Case Study
Eco-municipality
Madison
Corvallis
Whistler
Literature
Review
16 Lens
Factors
22. L1. Understanding of Local Context
L2. Common Understanding of the
Problem
L3. Resources (Financial or Human)
L4. Existing Networks
L5. Initial Agreement
L6. Planning
L7. Partner Engagement
L8. Building Legitimacy
L.9 Building Leadership
L.10 Building Trust
L.11 Management Structure
L.12 Communication System
L.13 Dealing with Power Imbalance
L.14 Dealing with competing
Institutional Logics
L. 15 Monitoring System
L.16 Evaluation System
16 Lens Factors
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SUPPORTING RESEARCH QUESTION 1: What defines an effective CSC?
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23. INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
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SUPPORTING RESEARCH QUESTION 2:
What are the enablers and barriers for effective CSC in
Eco-municipalities?
In-depth
Case Study
(Eindhoven)
Expert
Interviews
List of
187
E/S/B
24. • 12 expert and practitioner interviews
• 10 interviews in In-depth Case Study
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INTERVIEWS
Area Experts Case Study Total
CSC TNS Practitioner
Other
Sustainability
Practitioners
Government Business NGO
EU 2 1 1 3 4 3 14
US/Canada 2 4 2 8
Total 4 5 3 3 4 3 22
25. INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
187 E/S/B
Enabler: factor of positive influence to CSC
Straddler: factor described as barriers and enablers
Barrier: factor of negative influence to CSC
107 ENABLERS
29 STRADDLERS
51 BARRIERS
TOTAL E/S/B
Experts Interviews: 122 E/S/B
In-depth case study: 99 E/S/B
Both: 34 E/S/B
26. Initial Conditions
Process
Structure and Governance
Contingencies and Constraints
Outcomes and Accountabilities
12E/2S/5B
6E/12S/30B
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187 E/S/B in the CSC Framework
31E/7S/7B
42E/3S/4B
16E/5S/5B
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PRIMARY RESEARCH QUESTION:
What are the potential leverage points for effective
Cross-Sector Collaboration in Eco-municipalities?
List of
87
E/S/B
Level of
Importance Clustering
List of
187
E/S/B
List of
45
Potential
Leverage
Points
28. Initial Conditions
• (S) Local policy/Law
• (S) Internal Motivation/Attitude
• (E) System Thinking
• (E) Common understanding on
sustainability
• (E) Shared interest from different goals
• (E) Resources in general
• (E) Financial resources
• (E) Human resources
• (E) Ongoing education on sustainability
• (E) Existing relationships
Process
• (E) Commitment
(Government/Sponsors/Partners)
• (E) Sign an agreement
• (E) TNS Framework as common language
• (E) Common goal and vision
• (E) Co-creation with partners
• (E) Own identity and independent decision
making
• (E) Conflict over ownership
• (E) Create ownership
• (E) Building credibility
• (E) Tell successful stories
• (E) Leadership from different roles
• (S) Personal leadership
• (E) Trust
• (E) Understand each other
• (E) Create space to listen and talk to each
other
• (E) Create sense of progress by
prototyping and rewarding success
Structure and Governance
• (E) Facilitator to manage the process
• (S) Role of government
• (E) Role of TNS
• (E) Non-hierarchical decision making
• (E) Formalization
• (E) Have different voices heard
• (B) Lack of communication
• (E) Be transparent
Constraints and Contingencies
• (B) Unequal efforts in collaboration
• (B) Barriers to collaboration with
government
• (B) Conflict caused by own identity and
different interests
• (S) Different mindset and way of working
between sectors
• (B) Partners do not know each other
• (B) Economic crisis
• (B) Frustration due to no result without
long-term perspective
Outcome and Accountabilities
• (E) Monitoring and reporting system
• (E) Build accountability
• (E) Communicate and visualize outcome
• (E) Reflection during the process
45 POTENTIAL LEVERAGE POINTS
29. OBSERVATIONS
• things that need to be in place in a CSC:
monitoring and reporting system, formalization of the
collaboration
• actions people involved in the collaboration can take:
creating space, personal leadership, being transparent
• related to the facilitation of the process:
trust, communication, conflict over ownership, finding
shared interest on different goals
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30. ADDITIONAL RESEARCH QUESTION:
What are the leverage points for an effective CSC in an
Eco-municipality Case Study?
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31. Eindhoven as a Case Study
• First Eco-municipality in the
Netherlands
• 220.000 inhabitants
• City of technological
innovation
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32. INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
Housing Collaboration in Eindhoven
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• collaboration between the municipality, 5 housing
corporations and 2 NGOs since 2009
• created a common vision in 2011 after introduction
into the FSSD
• 9 strategic goals
• working group
• decision making group
33. ADDITIONAL RESEARCH QUESTION:
What are the leverage points for an effective CSC in an
Eco-municipality Case Study?
Causal Loop
Diagram
List of 29
Potential
Leverage
Points
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Eco-municipality Case Study (Eindhoven)
List of 9
Leverage
Points
List of 45
Potential
Leverage
Points
34. What is a Causal Loop Diagram?
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37. STRUCTURE
1. Use partners’ own identity and different interests to strengthen the collaboration
2. Make sure that the collaboration is formalized and recognized as such by all
partners
3. Help to create a mental model in which differences between sectors are seen as
strengths
4. Someone must take the responsibility of facilitating the process
AGENCY
5. Host a safe space in which partners can listen and talk to each other
6. Have an open mind to understand each other
7. Create sense of progress by prototyping and rewarding success
8. Measure the different efforts based on the partners´ capacities
9. Develop a culture of active communication
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9 LEVERAGE POINTS
40. 40
“And then it is not just about interpersonal relationships, it is
about organizations and formally bringing them to be
involved in these things [collaborations].”
(Clarke 2013)
41. LEVERAGE POINT 2: Make sure that the collaboration is
formalized and recognized as such by all partners
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Formalization
Human
Resources
Ownership
Credibility
Leadership from
different Roles
Collaboration
with the
government
Monitoring
Accountability
Communication
Communicate
and visualize
outcomes
Facilitator
Commitment
42. 42
“Being a person that is very easy to talk to, that is
understanding and a good listener, so that process manager,
has to have special skills as well, to be able to run this process.
You can't just bring anyone in for this part.”
(Carstedt 2013)
43. INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
LEVERAGE POINT 4: Someone must take the responsibility
of facilitating the process
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Formalization
Facilitator
Co-creation
Commitment
Ownership
Have different
voices heard
Communication
Understand Each
Other
Create space to
talk and listen
Leadership from Credibility
different roles
Accountability
Communicate
and visulaize
outcomes
Reflection during
the process
44. Informed FSSD
• CSC in Eco-municipalities in socio-ecological system
• 5 aspects of CSC Framework
• Leverage points in CSC
• 4SPs
• Vision
• 16 Lens Factors
• Backcasting
• 3 Prioritization Questions
• Additional Prioritization Question: Does this action
have a positive influence on one or more leverage
points?
• Additional Actions that can intervene the leverage
points
• Additional Tools that can be used to intervene the
leverage points
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SYSTEM
SUCCESS
STRATEGIC
ACTIONS
TOOLS
45. Reflection on Methods
• Process for Identifying Leverage Points
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STEP 1
• Choose E/S/Bs based on Current Status
STEP 2
• Causal Loop Diagram of Current Situation
STEP3
• Identify Leverage Points based on number of outflows
STEP 4
• Causal Loop Diagram of Ideal Scenario
46. General Reflections
• No obvious way to recognize if an
Eco- municipality is using the FSSD in
their daily activities
• Not necessarily a higher purpose in CSC
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47. • 16 Lens Factors for effective CSC
• 187 E/S/Bs
• 45 Potential Leverage Points
• 9 Leverage Points
• The informed FSSD in the context of CSC
in Eco-municipalities
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Main Findings
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48. Recommendations for Further
Research
• 16 Lens Factors for effective CSC
• 45 Potential Leverage Points
• The process to select Leverage Points
• How intervene in Leverage Points
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49. “We did not put our ideas together, we put our purposes together.
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And we agreed. Then we decided.”
(Ross Rocketto)
51. • Robèrt, Karl-Henrik. 2000. Tools and concepts for sustainable development, how
do they relate to a general framework for sustainable development, and to each
other? Journal of Cleaner Production 8, no. 3: 243-254.
• TNS Canada. 2013. Sustainability Transition Lab: The Process.
http://www.naturalstep.ca/sustainability-transition-lab-the-process (accessed 20
March 2013)
• Bryson, John M., Barbara C. Crosby, and Melissa Middleton Stone. 2006. The
Design and Implementation of Cross-Sector Collaborations: Propositions from the
Literature. Public Administration Review: 44 - 55.
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53. Limitations
• The scope
• Data reduction based on the level of importance
– Alignment with the lens factor
– Mentioned times in Experts and practitioners
Interview and In-depth case study
– Interest of researchers
– Need a survey to have practitioners scoring the level
of importance
• Check the validity with experts
54. Unexpected Results
• Common goal and vision
• FSSD as a common language
• Commitment
• Trust
• Co-creation with partners
The strategic level includes the backcasting methodology and three prioritization questions for actions towards the vision of reaching sustainability.
For Backcasting from Principles we need to have:
1. Begin with the end in mind
2. Move backwards from the vision to the present
3. Move step by step towards the vision
As one of the key strategic elements of the FSSD, backcasting creates a vision of the future and then builds a planning approach in order to reach that vision. Through backcasting from principles - in the case of the FSSD these are the four Sustainbility Principles, with any additional principles an organization might like to use - a large group can understand and align with these principles and deal with the complexity of sustainable development (Holmberg and Robèrt 2000).
On this level, three prioritisation questions are used to prioritize actions.
Does the action proceed in the right direction with respect to the Sustainability Principles? Organisations should prioritise actions that move in the right direction towards the vision framed by all four Sustainability Principles.
Does the action provide a flexible platform or “stepping stone” for future improvements? Organisations should prioritise actions that can be further built upon, in line with the four Sustainability Principles.
Is this action likely to produce a sufficient Return On Investment (ROI) to further catalyse the process?
These three questions are the minimum requirements for an action to be selected, other criteria can be developed in order to create a feasible strategic action plan.
to move these eco-municipalities toward sust, it’s necessary to bring people from different sectors of society together to discuss the complex challenges and collectively find solutions. In that research, we were focused on the collaboration between the government, businesses and NGOs.
The Natural Step, the organization that is the source of inspiration for Eco-municipalities, has recognized the need for collaboration in moving towards sustainability, however, they admit that “there is little expertise in the complex process of convening diverse groups of institutions to achieve common goals’ .
Mean that differents of the city have to work together if they want to deal with this complexity
To understand CSC we need to take into consideration five aspects that give us a whole understanding about how CSC works and what are the main characteristics we have to consider to achieve an effective collaboration between the three sectors .
These five aspects are part of the CSC Framework adapted from presented in Bryson, Crosby and Stone 2006 which consists of:
1) Initial Conditions: this category is focused on the general environment where the collaboration is taking place, the concept of sector failure as an overlooked precondition for collaboration, and other direct antecedents affecting the formation of collaborations.
2) Process: several aspects have to being considered in the process within collaboration: forging initial agreements, building leadership, building legitimacy, building trust, managing conflict and planning among others.
3) Structure and Governance: this category include elements such as goals, specialization of tasks and division of labor, rules and standard operating procedures, and authority relationships.
4) Constraints and Contingencies: in this section we include some aspects like the type of collaboration, different power among members, and competing institutional logics within the collaboration
5) Outcomes and Accountabilities: related with resilience and reassessment, and with inputs, processes and outputs, and, results from management system.
As we have said eco-municipalities are Cities that have adopted the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) in order to move toward sustainability
History very briefly:
The first eco-municipality was developed in Finland in 1980, and in 1983 the town of Övertorneå (evertorneo) became the first Eco-municipality in Sweden.
During the 90s, 55 cities and towns in Sweden adopted the Eco-municipality concept.
Recently, over seventy municipalities in Sweden have officially become Eco-municipalities and have formed a national association that assist each other and work together. Lot of municipal employees and citizens have been educated about what sustainability means and why it is important to reach a sustainable future
Eco-municipality concept has been spread around the world, there are eco-municipalities in the US, Canada, New Zeland, Brasil, Zimbawe,.etc and
The impact of this movement includes reductions in fossil fuel use; high levels of recycling; construction of healthy and ecological buildings; restoration of native wildlife; and transportation alternatives among others.
So for that reason we are focused on eco-municipalities because they are addressing their efforts to build sustainable communities