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2. Pathways Towards Decarbonising the Transportation Sector
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Lah, Oliver, Lah, Barbara, Meyer, Gereon, Series Editor, and Müller, Beate, editor
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- 2019
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3. Safe system for sustainable development.
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Lah, Oliver
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SUSTAINABLE development ,HUMAN settlements ,SUSTAINABLE communities ,CLIMATE change mitigation ,URBAN climatology ,URBAN growth - Abstract
This paper presents a novel governance concept for sustainable development, introducing the 'Safe System Approach' as a transformative model that shifts focus from individual behavioural change to systemic transformation. This approach challenges traditional governance models that emphasize individual responsibility in achieving sustainable development and decarbonization. Instead, it advocates for creating an enabling environment that inherently guides individuals and communities towards sustainable actions. The Safe System Approach is centred on delivering low-carbon services across essential sectors, including electricity, mobility, industry, buildings, human settlements, and agriculture, thereby embedding sustainability as a default choice in societal systems. Drawing parallels with successful models in road safety, the paper explores the potential of this approach in urban development and climate action. It emphasizes the need for a broad coalition and integrated approaches in managing shared resources, highlighting the significance of systemic adjustments over individual behavioral change. By proposing a structure where sustainability is facilitated by the system's design, the paper builds on key concepts from seminal works by scholars like Garrett Hardin, Mancur Olson, Elinor Ostrom, and Ahrend Lijphart. It discusses the challenges and opportunities in creating safe operating spaces for sustainable development, emphasizing the need for multi-actor, multilevel governance systems that can manage shared resources sustainably and are resilient to political volatility. The paper aims to offer a robust, efficient, and inclusive pathway to sustainable development, contributing to the global discourse on environmental and social resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Cities as engines for mobility transitions
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Lah, Oliver
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320 Politikwissenschaft ,urbane Mobilität ,governance ,urban mobility ,Politikgestaltung ,co-benefits ,nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung ,urban sustainability transitions ,policy design ,354 Verwaltung von Wirtschaft und Umwelt - Abstract
The transformation of cities towards sustainable and inclusive development is a key objective of the New Urban Agenda (United Nations 2017). Transport infrastructure is a critical factor in shaping cities, determining the energy intensity of mobility and providing access to essential social and economic opportunities. The sector also plays an important role in global climate change mitigation strategies, as it currently accounts for about 23% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC 2014). There is substantial potential to improve urban access, air quality, safety and the quality of life in cities along with reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions if an integrated policy approach is applied that combines all intervention areas for transport policy and involves all levels of government. A package that achieves low-carbon transport and fosters sustainable developed includes avoided journeys through compact urban design and shifts to more efficient modes of transport, uptake of improved vehicle and engine performance technologies, low-carbon fuels, investments in related infrastructure, and changes in the built environment. From a governance perspective, all relevant political institutions at the local and national level need to be involved in the coalition building along with key societal actors, such as unions, industry and civil society organisations. Bringing the policy objectives of these actors together with an integrated policy package is a vital step towards a low-carbon, sustainable mobility system. Policy design and governance are critically interlinked as the ability of institutions to find a political consensus and to maintain policy stability heavily influences the success of measures to shape the transformation pathway towards sustainable mobility. This thesis aims to analyse these linkages and highlight the role of different policy and governance approaches. This analysis builds on transport and urban development research, but takes a transdisciplinary research perspective, building on the Multi-Level-Perspective on sustainability transitions (Geels 2002) and aims to highlight the potential for a consensus oriented policy approach (Lijphard 1999) that builds on co-benefits among key policy objectives and coalitions among key political actors, which leads to the main question for this thesis and the focus areas for the analysis., Die Transformation der Städte hin zu einer nachhaltigen und integrativen Entwicklung ist ein Hauptziel der New Urban Agenda (United Nations 2017). Die Verkehrsinfrastruktur spielt eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Gestaltung der Städte, der Bestimmung der Energieintensität der Mobilität und des Zugangs zu wesentlichen sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Möglichkeiten. Der Verkehrssektor spielt eine wichtige Rolle bei globalen Klimaschutzstrategien, da er derzeit für etwa 23% der weltweiten energiebedingten Treibhausgasemissionen verantwortlich ist (IPCC 2014). Es besteht ein erhebliches Potenzial zur Verbesserung der Mobilität in Städten, der Luftqualität, der Sicherheit und der Lebensqualität in Städten sowie zur Senkung der Treibhausgasemissionen, wenn ein integrierter politischer Ansatz verfolgt wird, der alle Interventionsbereiche für die Verkehrspolitik vereint und alle Regierungsebenen integriert. Um dieses Potenzial zu nutzen, ist jedoch ein integrierter politischer Ansatz erforderlich, der alle Interventionsbereiche für die Verkehrspolitik vereint und alle Regierungsebenen einbezieht. Ein Paket, das einen kohlenstoffarmen Verkehr erreicht und nachhaltige Entwicklung fördert, umfasst vermiedene Fahrten durch kompakte städtebauliche Gestaltung und Umstellung auf effizientere Verkehrsträger, verbesserter Fahrzeugtechnologien, kohlenstoffarme Kraftstoffe und Investitionen nachhaltige Verkehrsinfrastruktur. Politikgestaltung und -prozesse sind eng miteinander verknüpft, da die Fähigkeit politischer Institutionen, einen politischen Konsens zu finden und die politische Stabilität zu erhalten, starken Einfluss auf den Erfolg von Maßnahmen zur Gestaltung des Transformationspfads hin zu einer nachhaltigen Mobilität hat. Diese Arbeit zielt darauf ab, diese Zusammenhänge zu analysieren und die Rolle verschiedener Politik- und Steuerungsansätze aufzuzeigen. Diese Analyse baut auf der Verkehrs- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung auf, verfolgt jedoch eine transdisziplinäre Forschungsperspektive, die auf der Multi-Level-Perspektive von Nachhaltigkeitsübergängen aufbaut (Geels 2002) und zielt darauf ab, das Potenzial für einen konsensorientierten Politikansatz (Lijphard 1999) aufzuzeigen über die Co-Benefits der wichtigsten politischen Ziele und Koalitionen der wichtigsten politischen Akteure, die zu der Hauptfrage für diese These und die Schwerpunkte für die Analyse führt.
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- 2019
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5. Continuity and Change: Dealing with Political Volatility to Advance Climate Change Mitigation Strategies--Examples from the Transport Sector.
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Lah, Oliver
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As the recent withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement has shown, political volatility directly affects climate change mitigation policies, in particular in sectors, such as transport associated with long-term investments by individuals (vehicles) and by local and national governments (urban form and transport infrastructure and services). There is a large potential for cost-effective solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to improve the sustainability of the transport sector that is yet unexploited. Considering the cost-effectiveness and the potential for co-benefits, it is hard to understand why efficiency gains and CO
2 emission reductions in the transport sector are still lagging behind this potential. Particularly interesting is the fact that there is substantial difference among countries with relatively similar economic performances in the development of their transport CO2 emissions over the past thirty years despite the fact that these countries had relatively similar access to efficient technologies and vehicles. This study aims to explore some well-established political science theories on the particular example of climate change mitigation in the transport sector in order to identify some of the factors that could help explain the variations in success of policies and strategies in this sector. The analysis suggests that institutional arrangements that contribute to consensus building in the political process provide a high level of political and policy stability which is vital to long-term changes in energy end-use sectors that rely on long-term investments. However, there is no direct correlation between institutional structures, e.g., corporatism and success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector. Environmental objectives need to be built into the consensus-based policy structure before actual policy progress can be observed. This usually takes longer in consensus democracies than in politically more agile majoritarian policy environments, but the policy stability that builds on corporatist institutional structures is likely to experience changes over a longer-term, in this case to a shift towards low-carbon transport that endures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2017
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