dc.contributor.author | Atlani, Camille | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-17T10:48:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-02-17T10:48:14Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2013 | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-02-17 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/189651 | |
dc.description.abstract | The past fifty years have seen an increasing acknowledgment of global sustainability challenges as well as a growing desire to transition towards greater sustainability. The objective of this thesis is to explore the potential for linking global challenges and local actions associated with a multi-scale approach to sustainable development, through the investigation of the putatively multi-scale project R-Urban in the Parisian suburbs. To reach this objective, a six-months internship with the project's initiators was used as a mean to observe, interview stakeholders and analyse the literature associated with the project. The investigation revealed that what characterised R-Urban's multi-scale approach was its complexity and transversality, its involvement of various actors at different scales, and its conscious strategy to increase the breadth of its local initiatives through scaling-out rather than scaling-up. In terms of local experience of the project, key to bridging the gap between local and global was to frame the project around locally beneficial practices which also have the "side-effect" of positively contributing to tackling global challenges. Local participants, empowered by a process of experiential learning, thus became agents of change who themselves disseminated the practices appropriated, therefore scaling-out the initiative. | no_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | no_NO |
dc.publisher | Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås | |
dc.subject | Sustainability Transition | no_NO |
dc.subject | Scales | no_NO |
dc.subject | Learning | no_NO |
dc.subject | Empowerment | no_NO |
dc.subject | Local-Global | no_NO |
dc.title | Multi-scaling for sustainability transition : the case of R-Urban in the Parisian suburb of Colombes | no_NO |
dc.type | Master thesis | no_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Technology: 500::Environmental engineering: 610 | no_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social science: 200::Urbanism and physical planning: 230 | no_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 54 | no_NO |