1. Axis GOVERNANCE
Blanca MIEDES UGARTE
UNIVERSIDAD DE HUELVA
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN INTERNACIONAL EN INTELIGENCIA TERRITORIAL
Member of the International Scientific Coordination Network (GDRI)
« International Network of Territorial Intelligence »
International Conference of Territorial Intelligence
Territorial Intelligence, Socio-Ecological Transition and Resilience of the
Territories
30-31 May 2013, Besançon (UFR SLHS, MSHE), Dijon (MSHD)

2. 2
G. [governance]
Axis G. [governance] Governance agenda
organizing structural reforms and initiatives for
the socio-ecological transition.

3. 3
Activities
Topics for discussion (activities) in this Axis are:
1.Structural reforms that help maintain and develop the welfare
society to improve the any- and everybody well being. <GR
reforms>
2.Governance initiatives in coordination and concertation,
cooperation and participation promoting territorial sustainable
development <GI initiatives>
3.Organizational employment and innovation reforms promoting
cooperation, coopetition and participation . <GC coopetition>

4. 4
2013 objective
The objective of the axis for 2013 is to jointly write a book chapter (about 30 pg.)
summing up main conclusions of bilateral meetings and common workshops
hold by the axis members.
- Workshop La Plata (Argentina, October 2012):
Participants:
-Gladys Molina, Universidad de Cuyo gmolina@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar
-Jorge Karol, Universidad de La Plata jorge.karol@gmail.com
-Albalía Colucci, Universidad Católica de Santiago del Estero albaliacolucci@hotmail.com
-María Alejandra Charras, Universidad de Córdoba jelam72@hotmail.com
-David Rincón, Universidad de Córdoba pronom@yahoo.com
-Blanca Miedes Ugarte, Universidad de Huelva miedes@uhu.es
-Meeting in Huelva (Spain, February 2013):
Participants:
-Tullia Saccheri, Università degli studi di Salerno saccheri@unisa.it
-Natale Ammaturo, Università degli studi di Salerno ammaturo@unisa.it
-Blanca Miedes Ugarte, Universidad de Huelva miedes@uhu.es

5. 5
General Overview
The chapter “NEW LIFE, NEW LINKS: WHAT GOBERNANCE FOR WHAT
SOCIO-ECOLÓGICAL TRANSITION” will focus the following topics
1. A brief synthesis on world socioeconomic, political and ecological megatrends
and a critical discussion of the agendas that are being proposed by international
institutions.
1.A discussion about the emergence of new lateral and multilevel ways of
governance in deliberating and implementing different alternative agendas as
well as the role of States, regions, communities and individuals in this new
framework.
1.The role, advantages and risks of new technologies in these new governance
processes will be examined.
1.A discussion about how to reconcile the old and new ways of governance will
conclude the article.

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1. Agendas
- Revision of the agendas for socio-ecological transition that are being
discussed or established by international institutions, think-tanks, thinking-
networks and ONG’S (for example, the European 2020 Strategy, the reports
on socio-ecological transitions of several FP7 research projects, the reports
of the New Economics Foundation, the proposal of the New Green Deal, etc).
- All these agendas have in common the preconization of big structural
changes, among others:
- energy efficient productive reorientations,
- the redefinition of the local-global relationships,
- income distribution and time policies
- They deal as well with individual behavioral changes:
- the overcoming of consumerism,
- the reconstruction of collective links and people empowerment through
knowledge production and sharing.
- All these transformations on the basis of new, participative, horizontal
decision making processes and citizens political empowerment.

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1. Agendas (cont.)
However, this section will high light the fact that there are irreconcilable
differences regarding the pursued finalities in these agendas,
-while western governmental agendas look for keeping the system under control
in order to facilitate the continuity of capital accumulation and fostering economic
growth as main drivers for life quality,
-more non-liberal governments, alternative research think tanks and civil
organization agendas seek a transition to a more radical and permanent
transformation of the model of development.

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2. The emergence of new lateral multilevel ways of
governance and the role of
different actors.
This section should specially focus the role of citizens’ participation (including
implication, cooperation, coordination) at different scales and sectors.
Some questions arise here;
-What kind of new participation structures are emerging in different contexts?;
-Taking into account different scenarios on employment and market and non-
market activities, which kind of social innovation is emerging in market and non
market economic activities?
-How to identify more promising practices, how to scale them, how to inscribe
them in institutional frameworks?
-How to conceptualize an axiology about participation and commons as drivers
of social, economic, cultural life instead/complementing the current single driver
competition?
-How to create and recreate social and communitarian proactive links?

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The starting point of this section is that the effects of technology are directly
linked to their use; they can promote democracy but help dictatorships in the
same way. They can enhance individuals’ enlighten but surveillance as well. The
mass media can enhance social innovation but social hysteria as well… They
can mobilize a lot of people but they can exclude most disfavored at the same
time.
This section should discuss methods and tools to keep this technology in a
permanent dialogue with individuals and social as one of the most important
challenges of governance systems in the future.
3. Role, advantages, risks of new technologies in
governance processes.

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- Within the current critical context, in which a wide arrange of social
movements and organized groups (such as “indignados”, occupy
everywhere, transition towns, degrowhth networks and communities…) are
becoming more active alternative political actors, the traditional rules of
good governance (openness, participation, accountability, effectiveness and
coherence) are necessary conditions but not sufficient ones.
- Active citizens need more active governance. This section will discuss the
need to overcome the social engineering approach towards more reflexive,
deliberative, and participative decision making and instrumental
planning processes.
- The conclusion should be the research agenda for producing new
knowledge and new participatory tools for supporting all these processes
and for contributing to build up actors and governments capabilities to
deal with main governance challenges.
4. How to reconcile the old and new ways of
governance.

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Organization
- I suggest each concerned researcher to send me
her/his contributions to each section before 20th
June.
- I will compile all the contributions in a draft and I will
send it for critics, remarks and comments on 30th
June.
- The final version of the chapter should be ready on
15th
July.

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