PHD Position Strategising

PhD Position Strategising for the Green Transition in Amsterdam Do you want to help cities develop long-term strategies for the energy transition and urban greening? Then we offer you a great opportunity to deepen your knowledge, improve your research skills, and make a contribution. PhD Position Strategising for the Green Transition in Amsterdam - Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Do you want to help cities develop long-term strategies for the energy transition and urban greening? Then we offer you a great opportunity to deepen your knowledge, improve your research skills, and make a contribution. PhD Position Strategising for the Green Transition in Amsterdam - Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Strategising for Green Urban Transition in Amsterdam Climate change is a key driver of major urban transitions. This PhD project is premised on the idea that these transitions require long-term strategic planning to provide a stable context for investment, create coherence in new infrastructure at the urban and regional levels, and coordinate with other forms of urban development. The goal of the project is to understand how the urban governance systems of actors, rules, and powers enable or constrain cities' ability to plan for the future. Therefore, the system in which planning decisions regarding climate-proofing the city are made should be well understood to identify the factors that lead to the success or failure of long-term planning. The research design centres on key decisions regarding urban transitions aimed at mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. An approach in which Amsterdam is compared with cities pursuing ambitious green transition agendas will be part of the research design. A provisional formulation of the central questions of the project is: How do governance arrangements enable or constrain Amsterdam's long-term strategies for green urban transitions?What can Amsterdam do to ...