Social Innovation and Co-design for Climate Neutrality: The NetZeroCities Project
Author:
Bresciani Sabrina,Rizzo Francesca,Mureddu Francesco
Abstract
AbstractThe complex and urgent challenge of reaching carbon neutrality requires systemic changes of our current systems. Starting from the acknowledgment that technological solutions alone are not enough to reach climate neutrality at the required speed, social innovation becomes a crucial lever for accelerating systemic transformation. Several projects and scientific evidence outline the benefits of a people-centred and co-design approaches to transitions. Yet, public administrators, policy makers and urban transition teams have limited guidance on how to embed social innovations in their cities’ action plans, and on how to assess the progresses, outcomes and impacts of social innovation initiatives at urban level. Based on the work developed within the EU-funded project NetZeroCities, the book presents a framework for categorization of social innovation solutions for climate neutrality at city level, and a clustered catalogue of indicators, which can be utilized by cities’ public administrators to monitor and evaluate social innovation action plans to support people-centred, collaborative solutions to lower carbon emissions.
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland
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