Interdisciplinary perspectives on urban sustainability: communicational challenges and future development prospects towards sustainable cities and communities
PIs
Liliana De Simone, Universidad de Chile
Henrik Rahm, Lund University
Participants
Nils Peter Ragnar Sjöström, Lund University
Bernadett Kiss, Lund University
Alexander Paulsson, Lund University
Linus Zhang, Lund University
Jennifer Leijon, Uppsala University
Lazaro Moreno, Stockholm University
Kay Bergamini, P. Universidad Católica
Claudia Labarca, P. Universidad Católica
Lake Sagaris, P. Universidad Católica
Patricia Junge, Universidad de Chile
Catalina Amigo, Universidad de Chile
Laura Gallardo, Universidad de Chile
Maria Christina Fragkou, Universidad de Chile
Rodolfo Sapiains, Universidad de Magallanes
Lennart Mårtensson, Kristianstad University
Results
The purpose of this workshop was to discuss both past and planned initiatives in Sweden and Chile regarding urban sustainability and its communicational challenges, successes, and failures to engage local communities in mindset changes. In discussions with municipal officials Punta Arenas and Umeå, the workshop recognized the need to reinterpret the links between academic research and local practitioners. Their main goal was to explore value systems on sustainability and ecosystems from multidisciplinary perspectives towards identifying and building new narratives on promoting behavioral changes towards the sustainable goals of agenda 2030.
During the workshop, the group met with municipal officers from Punta Arenas and Umeå, visiting Punta Arenas as part of EU financed project on urban planning in three European and three Latin American municipalities.
There was an enhanced understanding for differences in governance and the importance on cooperation between academia and municipalities on an equal basis with benefits for both parties.
The group identified internal and external funding – seed money, initiation grants, cooperation projects, national funding, international funding