Metagoverning the Co-Creation of Green Transitions: A Socio-Political Contingency Framework

Jacob Torfing, Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen

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Abstract

While the planet Earth will survive the accelerating climate and nature crisis, humankind may not. As part of its work to halt the global climate and nature crisis, while generating a distributed prosperity, the United Nations has unanimously agreed on sustainable development goals. The achievement of these goals depends on the mobilization of local knowledge and resources, and the creation of a sense of joint ownership over new and bold solutions. Co-creation that brings together relevant and affected actors in emergent processes of collaboration, learning, and innovation offer a path to localized green transitions. However, little is known about how public governance can prompt, support, and scaffold the local co-creation of green solutions. Bridging extant literatures in the field of collaborative and networked governance, this theory-building article aims to identify a number of governance factors conducive for the local co-creation of green transitions. The resulting theoretical framework allows us to conjecture about which governance factors will be critical in different socio-political contexts, thus facilitating future studies of contrasted governance paths to local green co-creation.
Original languageEnglish
Article number6776
JournalSustainability
Volume16
Issue number16
Number of pages21
ISSN2071-1050
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2024

Keywords

  • Co-creation
  • Environment
  • Governance factors
  • Green solutions
  • Regimes
  • Sustainability

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