Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic (SUDEA): Towards Enhanced Transnational Cooperation in Remote Regions
How can transnational cooperation formats between urban centers in remote regions be improved? The international and interdisciplinary cooperation project SUDEA is devoted to this question in order to better coordinate practices of sustainable development, especially taking into account the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Project Lead:
Dorothea Wehrmann
Łuszczuk, Michał (Maria-Curie-Skłodowska-University)
Project Team:
Jacqueline Götze
Riedel, Arne (Ecologic Institute)
Radzik-Maruszak, Katarzyna (Maria-Curie-Skłodowska-University)
Financing:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Time frame:
2020 - 2023
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ongoing
Co-operation Partner:
Maria-Curie-Skłodowska-University (Lublin)
Project description
To harmonise practices of sustainable development particularly with regard to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development the international and interdisciplinary cooperation project examines how forms of transnational cooperation can be improved between urban centres in remote regions.
To answer this research question, the project team combines theoretical and empirical studies and compares decision-making processes on sustainable development practices in seven cities in the European Arctic (Rovaniemi, Kolari, Nuuk, Akureyri, Tromsø, Kiruna, Luleå) by taking participatory approaches into account.
Based on this, a framework will be developed that identifies pathways through which better transnational policy alignment can be achieved. The project addresses a gap in the current state of research, as especially remote regions - and as such the Arctic - are being studied.
The research hypothesis is based on the approach of interactive governance, according to which urban development in the Arctic is more sustainable if the positions of local stakeholders in decision-making processes are taken into account and policies at national and regional level are harmonised.
The project contributes to conceptual debates on transnational cooperation and local governance and develops new insights in the field of urban governance, in particular on political and institutional requirements imposed on cities, different types of available resources and the relationship between cities and society (also in its transnational form); it is intended to provide a deliberate impetus for the cluster "Success Factors for Transnational Cooperation".
Publications
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What future for cooperation in the Arctic? Scenarios after Putin’s war on Ukraine
Wehrmann, Dorothea / Michał Łuszczuk / Jacqueline Götze / Arne Riedel / Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak (2022)
published on blogs.die-gdi.de, 16.03.2022 -
Shared challenges of cities in and beyond the Arctic
Götze, Jacqueline, Dorothea Wehrmann, Michał Łuszczuk, Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak (2021)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 2 November 2021 -
The value of transdisciplinary and collaborative ocean research
Wehrmann, Dorothea / Jacqueline Götze / Michał Łuszczuk / Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak / Arne Riedel (2021)
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 17 June 2021 -
How the EU’s new Arctic policy should take account of the pandemic
Götze Jacqueline / Dorothea Wehrmann (2020)
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 21 December 2020 -
Developing a framework for the analysis of Arctic indigenous institutions in a rapidly transforming region
Götze, Jacqueline (2020)
in: Arctic Yearbook, 155-174 -
The Arctic Council as a success case for transnational cooperation in times of rapid global changes?
Wehrmann, Dorothea (2020)
in: Arctic Yearbook, 425-442, Online -
Transnational cooperation in times of rapid global changes: the Arctic Council as a success case?
Wehrmann, Dorothea (2020)
Discussion Paper 12/2020 -
Look North: the Arctic Council as an example for the management of transboundary challenges?
Wehrmann, Dorothea (2019)
published on blogs.die-gdi.de 6. November 2019