Integrating Triple Helix and Sustainable Transition Research for Transformational Governance

What is it about?

The critical literature review discusses the literature on the principles of participation and adaptation underlying Triple Helix and Transition Research for its relevance in governing urban climate change adaptation. In this framing, a secondary analysis of Barcelona's struggle against air pollution is exemplified as a wicked problem caused by diverse stakeholder interests and their different sustainability concepts in socio-economic growth. The paper offers a new perspective on sustainable, transformative pathways in cities which run on participative and adaptive governance principles. The backwards integration into the underlying principles of meta-theories illustrates the value of the triple helix and transition research and the benefit of the combination for examining and designing sustainable urban transition pathways.

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