Sustainable cities are about upholding social justice, ecological resilience and economic vitality for current and future generations. Many social movements and organizations across the world, including activists, entrepreneurs, researchers, policy-makers and other citizen, are collaborating to create more sustainable and just cities. They are striving for access to basic needs (e.g. housing, energy, water, food, healthcare), while also respecting future generations and other living creatures.
In this sub-theme, we critically engage with these movements through interdisciplinary research. We take complex political interlinkages between ecological, social and economic challenges in urban contexts as a fundamental starting point. What are the challenges and tensions between ecological sustainability and socio-economic justice? How can we ensure that sustainable cities are also just cities? How are people and networks empowered to transform their cities into more sustainable and just environments?
Theme Lead
Julia Wittmayer
Publication Series Just Sustainability Transitions
Exploring the intersections of justice, sustainability and transformative change
Event Series on Just Sustainability Transitions
Contributing to informed academic and public debates on (in)justice and (un)sustainability
Through collaborating with organizations and social movements working on ecological sustainability and socio-economic justice on a daily basis, researchers can co-produce actionable knowledge on how to create transformative change towards more just and sustainable futures.
JUSTRA Cities Network
Aims to deepen, translate, and connect knowledge and practice on just sustainability transitions
Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities
Urban Arena Podcast with Flor Avelino
JUSTRA Cities Research
Understanding the role of translocal networks in knowledge sharing and co-production.
