From conflicting agendas to cooperative sustainable urban development : the triple integration of sustainability in vertical, horizontal and sectoral structures
- Time is pressing with regard to climate protection targets and adapting to the consequences of climate change. In addition, there is a lack of affordable housing and social infrastructure in many of Germany's larger cities, while at the same time there is a great need to renovate buildings and infrastructure in many places. In cities, these complex challenges overlap and put pressure on administrations and politics. At the same time, the regular processes in urban planning and development are lengthy and often conflicting. Achieving objectives - from energy efficiency and climate protection, land and environmental protection to social goals - hardly seems realistic.
In different projects, the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, EnvironmentTime is pressing with regard to climate protection targets and adapting to the consequences of climate change. In addition, there is a lack of affordable housing and social infrastructure in many of Germany's larger cities, while at the same time there is a great need to renovate buildings and infrastructure in many places. In cities, these complex challenges overlap and put pressure on administrations and politics. At the same time, the regular processes in urban planning and development are lengthy and often conflicting. Achieving objectives - from energy efficiency and climate protection, land and environmental protection to social goals - hardly seems realistic.
In different projects, the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy has dealt with integration challenges of multi-level policy, structures and processes in municipal administrations, and issues related to an accelerated implementation of climate action. We now analysed obstacles in building and planning law that stand in the way of achieving a climate-neutral building stock, supported the urban planning and the environmental department in the City of Wiesbaden to develop and test the application of “rules of sustainable urban development” including new, co-operative working structures in the administration and developed a conceptual model to support sustainable urban development through stringent policy design in a multi-level system, a co-operative approach at municipal level and a thematic integration of different sustainability dimensions through a "triple integration".
The paper describes the challenges municipalities are facing with regard to achieving sustainable development in general and climate-neutrality in particular. It explains the methodological approach and the concept of a "triple integration" model. From this, recommendations are derived for an integrated and stringent approach to foster implementation at the municipal level.…
Document Type: | Conference Object |
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Author: | Anja Bierwirth, Fiona Bunge, Steven März |
URN (citable link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-86029 |
Editor(s): | Therese Laitinen Lindström |
Publisher: | European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy |
Place of publication: | Stockholm |
Year of Publication: | 2024 |
Language: | English |
Source Title (English): | Sustainable, safe & secure through demand reduction : ECEEE 2024 summer study on energy efficiency ; 10-15 June 2024 |
First Page: | 375 |
Last Page: | 384 |
Divisions: | Energie-, Verkehrs- und Klimapolitik |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften |
Licence: | ![]() |