TY - JOUR

T1 - Building actor-centric transformative capacity through city-university partnerships

AU - Keeler, Lauren Withycombe

AU - Beaudoin, Fletcher

AU - Wiek, Arnim

AU - John, Beatrice

AU - Lerner, Amy M.

AU - Beecroft, Richard

AU - Tamm, Kaidi

AU - Seebacher, Andreas

AU - Lang, Daniel J.

AU - Kay, Braden

AU - Forrest, Nigel

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

PY - 2019/5/15

Y1 - 2019/5/15

N2 - Cities worldwide are rising to the challenge of sustainable development, calling for large-scale and fast-paced transformations towards sustainability. Urban sustainability challenges are now being reframed as a lack of capacity of individuals and organizations to carry out such socio-technical transformations. This article expands on transformative capacity literature by elucidating the concept of actor-centric transformative capacity. It focuses on the unique role city-university partnerships (CUPs) can play in catalyzing and supporting effective urban sustainability transformations. Two case studies on CUPs in Portland, Oregon and Tempe, Arizona are used to identify determinants of actor-centric transformative capacity, their role in the transformative capacity of urban systems, and how they are built through CUPs. The article concludes with strategies for building effective CUPs capable of building actor-centric transformative capacity among university actors and city administrators.

AB - Cities worldwide are rising to the challenge of sustainable development, calling for large-scale and fast-paced transformations towards sustainability. Urban sustainability challenges are now being reframed as a lack of capacity of individuals and organizations to carry out such socio-technical transformations. This article expands on transformative capacity literature by elucidating the concept of actor-centric transformative capacity. It focuses on the unique role city-university partnerships (CUPs) can play in catalyzing and supporting effective urban sustainability transformations. Two case studies on CUPs in Portland, Oregon and Tempe, Arizona are used to identify determinants of actor-centric transformative capacity, their role in the transformative capacity of urban systems, and how they are built through CUPs. The article concludes with strategies for building effective CUPs capable of building actor-centric transformative capacity among university actors and city administrators.

KW - Capacity

KW - Partnerships

KW - Transformation

KW - Urban sustainability

KW - Transdisciplinary studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056165679&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s13280-018-1117-9

DO - 10.1007/s13280-018-1117-9

M3 - Journal articles

C2 - 30448997

AN - SCOPUS:85056165679

VL - 48

SP - 529

EP - 538

JO - Ambio

JF - Ambio

SN - 0044-7447

IS - 5

ER -