Local cocreation of the green transition: an exploration of the impact of governance factors

Abstract

Collaboration in networks and partnerships is gaining increasing influence in both public management practice and scholarship. Co-creation has been advanced as a particularly powerful tool to involve citizens and marginalised actors in solving pressing governance problems, particularly at local levels of governance. This panel aims to foreground the relevance of diverse governance factors for shaping local efforts to co-create green transitions. Despite the proliferation of research on co-creation, we still lack knowledge about how different governance factors such as public regulation, formal channels for citizen involvement, leadership, trust and blended finance condition collaboration between local actors. The panel seeks to illuminate the complex interplay between various governance factors in promoting - or in some cases jeopardising - the co-creation of solutions to climate related problems and their role in shaping the success (or the lack thereof) across the world. To this end, we invite in-depth case studies, comparative studies, review studies, and other contributions that examine how co-creation vary across geographical, cultural, regime related and socio-economic contexts. The primary goal of this panel is to analyse and discuss how decision makers can employ combinations of governance factors to promote local cocreation in different political, economic, cultural and social contexts. Through the exploration of empirical case studies or theoretical contributions, we aim to identify patterns, challenges, and opportunities that can inform future sustainable development initiatives. We invite theoretical, methodological and empirical papers that consider how individual or combinations of governance factors condition collaborative efforts involving public and private actors, including citizens, in solving climate and nature related governance problems.

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