Dear all,

Julia Teebken, Beatrice John, Thorsten Heimann and I are editing a special 
issue on "Social Innovation and Participatory Governance? Exploring Their 
Relationship in the Context of Urban Sustainability and Climate Adaptation" in 
"Sustainability (MDPI)". Our CfP might be of interest to some of you and we 
would be delighted to receive your submission. We are especially looking for 
contributions that build upon cases from outside Europe. Please find the full 
CfP below or at
https://www.mdpi.com/si/sustainability/social_innovation_climate

Best,

Lena Bendlin


Special Issue "Social Innovation and Participatory Governance? 
Exploring Their Relationship in the Context of Urban Sustainability and 
Climate Adaptation"
The governance of urban sustainable development and climate 
adaptation has become an important challenge for decision-makers and 
researchers, which is, for instance, emphasized in UN Sustainable 
Development Goal 11 “Sustainable Cities and Communities”. In this 
regard, participatory governance is considered a key aspect for 
strengthening democratic engagement and legitimatizing governmental 
action. Many authors see participatory governance as a trigger for 
social change and innovation, particularly in times of crisis. Others 
criticize the fact that participation procedures may lead to 
time-consuming procedures, maladaptation, and undermining of democracy 
through the exclusion of relevant voices.

This Special Issue aims to reflect on the different notions of 
“participatory governance” in different social and cultural contexts, 
which modes of participatory governance exist, and in how far they carry
 transformative potential for different types of change. Therefore, the 
Special Issue aims to explore to what extent participatory governance 
can trigger the development of social innovation in times of crisis—such
 as (but not limited to) climate change. We would like to encourage 
researchers to discuss theoretical and empirical results in the field of
 urban climate adaptation and/or sustainability in large and smaller 
cities as well as townships.


* Analyzing the relationship between social innovation and 
participatory governance: What is the transformative potential of 
participatory approaches? How much can participatory governance trigger 
social change and innovation? Under which conditions are (new) ideas and
 social innovations generated? Which role does issue-linking to broader 
societal themes play to enable social innovations? How can we reconcile 
open-endedness of participatory processes and sustainability goals?
* Analyzing the design and conditions of participatory governance, 
such as: What are factors of effective integration into urban 
governance? What role do learning processes and learning communities 
play? How are processes of issue-linking to broader societal themes 
designed and which role do they play to foster participatory governance?
 Which barriers and/or lock-ins exist? What are the different modes and 
practices of participatory governance? E.g.,(online) participation 
formats, co-creative processes, experiments, transdisciplinary 
approaches;
* Building capacities for participatory governance and social 
innovation: What are the context-specific individual, collective, and 
institutional capacities that influence participatory governance and 
social innovation, and how are they embedded and built? How can their 
impact and/or outcome be evaluated, considering different contexts and 
wider institutional processes, or temporal dynamics; and which problems 
and priorities for actions are identified? Which opportunities for 
transfer exist and how can transfer be realized?


im Auftrag
Dr. Lena Bendlin


Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik | German Institute of Urban Affairs
Forschungsbereich Infrastruktur, Wirtschaft und Finanzen | Department for 
Infrastructure, Economics and Finance
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