European university-community partnership-based research on urban sustainability and resilience

• Published in: Current opinion in environmental sustainability Vol. 23; pp. 79 - 84
• Main Authors: Collier, Marcus, Connop, Stuart, Corcoran, Aoife, Crowe, Philip, Nedović-Budić, Zorica, Pichler-Milanović, Natasha, Rijavec, Robert, Sinclair, Jo, Vandergert, Paula, Varghese, Johanna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01-12-2016
• ISSN: 1877-3435; 1877-3443
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.12.001

•TURAS is an European FP7 project focused on transitioning to urban sustainability and resilience.•TURAS brings together researchers, 11 local authorities, SMEs and communities across Europe.•Challenge: climate change adaptation, natural resource shortage and urban sprawl and deterioration.•Final objective: integrated transition strategies.•Cases: brownfield development (London), community collaboration (Dublin) and sustainable mobility (Ljubljana).
Transitioning Towards Urban Resilience and Sustainability (TURAS) project is based on the partnership between decision makers in local authorities with SMEs and academic institutions to develop and demonstrate transition strategies for urban resilience and sustainability. Out of eleven case study sites, three are presented in this brief, including: brownfield redevelopment in London, community mobilisation around underutilisation of urban sites in Dublin, and a web portal for sustainable mobility in Ljubljana.