New departures in tackling urban climate change: transdisciplinarity for social transformation (a critical appraisal of the WBGU’s 2011 report)

摘要: In 2011 the German Advisory Council for Global Change (WBGU) published a remarkable policy document entitled World in Transition: A Social Contract Sustainability which authors proclaim need great social transformation at global scale order to address climate change. This article builds on and critically discusses central messages of report that emphasizes necessity pro-actively shape change our values worldviews underpin lifestyles consumption patterns. By arguing transdisciplinary approach implement this challenging vision identifies urbanization as significant dimension these processes thus shifting away from dominant focus socio-technical solutions. puts field urban planning development related disciplines centre adaptation mitigation debate raising profound questions how professionals, academics practitioners could respond ideas brought forward report. The author considers an opportunity hitherto largely neglected integral approaches gain more importance mainstream practice theory. concluding part sketches out initial research programme based previous discussion illustrate concrete level implications integrative, framework planning.