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This article presents a heuristic framework to help respond to gaps in knowledge construction in sustainability transitions. Transition theory publications highlight concerns ranging from contentious understandings of sustainability to the need for generalisable conceptual frameworks around how place specificity matters in transitions. The heuristic presented here is a flexible framework for developing place-dependent narratives of sustainability transitions grounded in investment choices. The sustainability buckets development resulted from the abduction and retroduction methods. It was also underpinned by a praxis-oriented mechanism from business (‘strategic investment buckets’), a transition theory conceptual framework (‘the multi-level perspective’—MLP), and a social sciences heuristic (‘sustainability cultures’). The sustainability buckets resulted from synthesising the critical literature with empirical findings drawn from two case studies in New Zealand. The heuristic proved helpful to navigate, organise, and code meanings and understandings of sustainability in the New Zealand agri-food context. It also helped facilitate dialogue with research participants from different backgrounds, such as government and business. The heuristic was designed to transform, remaining fit for purpose as transitions evolve. This article suggests the sustainability buckets could be used to enable investment opportunities for upscaling, reproducing, and transplanting transitions happening in distinct sectors and high-level systems.
Barbara Ribeiro; James A. Turner. Sustainability Buckets: A Flexible Heuristic for Facilitating Strategic Investment on Place-Dependent Sustainability Narratives. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9367 .
AMA StyleBarbara Ribeiro, James A. Turner. Sustainability Buckets: A Flexible Heuristic for Facilitating Strategic Investment on Place-Dependent Sustainability Narratives. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9367.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBarbara Ribeiro; James A. Turner. 2021. "Sustainability Buckets: A Flexible Heuristic for Facilitating Strategic Investment on Place-Dependent Sustainability Narratives." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9367.
This article wrestles with the theoretical complexity of fostering food sustainability transitions in metropoles. It pays attention to how urban food forestry networks cultivated in parks may represent a critical part of these transitions, by providing a mechanism for urban peoples to reconnect with food processes while enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem services. The work considers this crucial topic, both theoretically and empirically, in two steps. First, a brief overview of utopian models and the critical literature grounds the discussion of the proposed regenerative place-making model. Second, the work weaves considerations regarding a utopian model of urban food forestry network, by conceptualising Urban Living Labs (ULLs) as flexible nodes of articulation. The work concludes that the key to unlocking this model’s potential for replication and transplantation to distinct localities lies as much in the multiple values entailed by the proposed intervention as it does in its flexible nodes of articulation.
Barbara Ribeiro; Nick Lewis. Urban food forestry networks and Urban Living Labs articulations. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 2021, 14, 337 -355.
AMA StyleBarbara Ribeiro, Nick Lewis. Urban food forestry networks and Urban Living Labs articulations. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 2021; 14 (3):337-355.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBarbara Ribeiro; Nick Lewis. 2021. "Urban food forestry networks and Urban Living Labs articulations." Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 14, no. 3: 337-355.
Barbara Ribeiro. Cities Leading Climate Action: Urban Policy and Planning. Urban Policy and Research 2019, 38, 79 -81.
AMA StyleBarbara Ribeiro. Cities Leading Climate Action: Urban Policy and Planning. Urban Policy and Research. 2019; 38 (1):79-81.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBarbara Ribeiro. 2019. "Cities Leading Climate Action: Urban Policy and Planning." Urban Policy and Research 38, no. 1: 79-81.