REPAiR: REsource Management in Peri-urban AReas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism: D6.1 Governance and Decision-Making Processes in Pilot Cases

REPAiR will develop, test, and implement strategies for improved urbanmetabolisms in six peri-urban living labs (›PULLs‹) in the case study areas ofAmsterdam, Ghent, Hamburg, Łódź, Naples, and Pécs. In the frame of REPAiR ageodesign decision support environment (GDSE) will be developed and firsttested in the PULLs.In REPAiR’s Work Package 6 “Developing and implementing decision models”decision making processes will be analysed and decision models for all six casestudies will be developed in order to be implemented in cooperation withstakeholders in the six case study areas feeding into the GDSE.The deliverable D6.1 Governance and Decision-Making Processes in Pilot Cases isfocused on the definition and clarification of governance and decision-makingstructures in the two pilot cases of the REPAiR project: Amsterdam, theNetherlands and Naples, Italy. The deliverable is divided into 5 chapters.After a brief introduction to the work done for the drafting of this document(Chapter 1), the second Chapter aims to explain the theoretical background ongovernance and stakeholder analysis and gives an overview on the developmentof EU policies in the field of waste management.The third chapter and the fourth chapters report a description of the pilotcaseworks Amsterdam and Naples they include an overview on the governancesetting, a detailed timelines of the development of the waste governance and thedecision-making framework. This is followed by descriptions of the stakeholderidentification and interviews conducted in the pilot cases.The Amsterdam focus area is located in the Western part of AmsterdamMetropolitan Area. The central idea of the case study is to develop a more circulareconomy. This idea is already quite present among many stakeholders and isformulated as an objective by public stakeholders. Moreover, the public sideencourages the involvement of economic stakeholders into the development of acircular economy. The private stakeholders express great interest in becoming(more) involved into the process. However, the interviews also show that thedevelopment of a circular economy and changes in waste management in theNetherlands can only be reached on a long perspective and that many frameconditions in the waste management sector are long term bound.The Naples focus area is covering parts of the City of Naples and 10 municipalitiesin the north-east of Naples. After the conclusion of the waste crisis in Naplespublic authorities are aiming to improve the waste management on a long termperspective. The interviews show that there are two main challenges linked to thisprocess: firstly, the current change of the administrative system in both Italy andthe Campania region; secondly, the necessity to involve local citizens in thedecision-making process to regain the trust of the population.Chapter 5 illustrates the conclusion of this first step of the project and gives anoutlook on further steps.Version 1.6 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 688920.Spatial Planning and Strateg

Urban Regions Shifting to Circular Economy: Understanding Challenges for New Ways of Governance

Urban areas account for around 50% of global solid waste generation. In the last decade, the European Union has supported numerous initiatives aiming at reducing waste generation by promoting shifts towards Circular Economy (CE) approaches. Governing this process has become imperative. This article focuses on the results of a governance analysis of six urban regions in Europe involved in the Horizon 2020 project REPAiR. By means of semi-structured interviews, document analysis and workshops with local stakeholders, for each urban area a list of governance challenges which hinder the necessary shift to circularity was drafted. In order to compare the six cases, the various challenges have been categorized using the PESTEL-O method. Results highlight a significant variation in policy contexts and the need for these to evolve by adapting stakeholders’ and policy-makers’ engagement and diffusing knowledge on CE. Common challenges among the six regions include a lack of an integrated guiding framework (both political and legal), limited awareness among citizens, and technological barriers. All these elements call for a multi-faceted governance approach able to embrace the complexity of the process and comprehensively address the various challenges to completing the shift towards circularity in cities.Spatial Planning and StrategyUrban Development Managemen