The document discusses social-ecological innovation in city-regions from a comparative case study of the Basque and Øresund regions. It notes the increasing complexity of urban entities and interdependence between urban and regional areas. Social-ecological innovation requires social-ecological transformation, which introduces tensions and contradictions. A systemic approach is needed to understand the interactions between urban systems, relational systems, socio-cultural systems, and socio-political systems. Social-ecological innovations create social and ecological values through changes in social and ecological relationships, highlighting new cross-sector relationships and bringing citizens into the innovation process.
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1. The Future of City-Regions from a Social-Ecological
Innovation perspective: Basque & Øresund comparative cases
UNDERPINNINGS
• Increasing complexity of urban entities
• Urban-regional tensions and interdependence
Public
• Social-Ecological Innovation can not take place or be understood without Social-Ecological transformation.
Bricoleurs
• Social-Ecological Transformation means tensions and contradictions in the system
• A systemic approach with interdepent factors may help us to
understand structures and interactions
• We argue that these approaches are necessary: URBS: Urban
System; CYBER: Relational System; CIVITAS: Socio-Cultural
System; POLIS: Socio-Political System
Business
Academy
Civil soc
Penta-helix model
SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
• ”Social innovations are innovations that are social in both
their ends and their means...”(BEPA 2011)
• The concept of social-ecological inovations have been introduced to highlight the importance and interdependece of social
and ecological aspects for resilient communities
• Building on the definition above (from BEPA 2011) it is evident
that social-ecological innovations are related to the creation
of social-ecological values, and is based on changes in social
and ecological relationsships
• The approach of social-ecological innovation highlights new
cross-sector relationships, and bring active citizens and civil
society organizations to the heart of the innovation process
and aims to bridge the gap between citizens, reasearchers and
policy makers, not least to reconfigure governance structures
Igor Calzada, Future of Cities Programme, Oxford University
Fredrik Björk, Forum for Social Innovation Sweden