- Change management
- Social innovation and transformation
- Territory
- Urban experimentation
- Urban metabolism
Description
Owing to their demographic weight, potential for action and concentration of infrastructures, activities and stakeholders, cities constitute strategic arenas for the transition to the circular economy (CE). However, the expansion of CE on an urban scale requires the transformation of the means of collective action.
First, there must be a new reading of the territory to quantify and characterize the resource flows within it. With that in mind, urban metabolism (UM) provides conceptual and methodological tools for territorial diagnosis and strategic design.
Second, governance approaches are required to stimulate circular innovations that may serve as transitional trajectories. In this context, urban experimentation derived from transition management constitutes a tool to mobilize stakeholders, innovation and systemic change.
Based on a review of scientific and grey literature and interviews, the synthesis of knowledge involves three components:
- Identify urban collective actions (policies, urban projects, etc.) in CE that mobilize UM in North America and Europe.
- Identify strategies to scale up urban experiments in CE.
- Categorize the characteristics and impacts of a crossover between UM and experimentation to implement urban CE strategies.
Affiliated research axes
Axis 1: Change and Transition Management
1.1 – Establish a reference framework for the circular economy1.2 – Conceptualize the intended transition to a circular Québec 2026–2050
1.3 – Identify means to mobilize all societal stakeholders for the circular economy
Axis 4: Policy levers
4.1 – Monitor new knowledge, create an inventory and carry out priority-setting exercises for levers and strategiesCollaborators
Philippe Genois-Lefrançois
Doctorant UdeMMartial Vialleix
Doctorant Université Paris 1 Panthéon SorbonneDeliverables and spin-offs
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Summary of project results
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A literature review for the territorial deployment of the circular economy
Webinar with the RRECQ -
The urban metabolism approach : a portrait of adoption modes for urban deployment of the circular economy
Article published in Organisations & Territoires -
Urban metabolism : how can urban planning approaches contribute to the transition to a circular city ?
Conference at the International symposium of the Association for the Promotion of Teaching and Research in Urban Planning and Development