Networked governance and policy mobilities by Alberto Terenzi
European Planning Studies , 2020
By examining three policy-oriented research projects funded by the European Union (RAMSES, RESIN,... more By examining three policy-oriented research projects funded by the European Union (RAMSES, RESIN, SMR) the paper critically discusses operationalisation efforts of urban resilience as they are designed and produced at the interface between science and policy. By analysing the documents and conducting interviews with the projects' coordinators and participants, three main research questions were addressed concerning how urban resilience is defined across the projects and the actors involved, the role of the tools produced by them in their difficult task to reconcile wider applicability and local specificity and finally how stakeholder engagement and co-creation were framed and implemented. Based on the evidence collected, the authors argue that conceptualisations of urban resilience within operationalisation efforts being produced at the science policy-interface are still quite plural and open, that such openness is largely confirmed by the flexibility of the tools produced by the projects and that while becoming increasingly relevant stakeholder engagement and co-creation strategy are yet to be fully framed and theorised. Finally, they present further research pathways aimed at strengthening our knowledge of operationalisation efforts, the role of practitioners and of urban resilience implementation in discreet scientific and political environments.
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Networked governance and policy mobilities by Alberto Terenzi