Barriers and Opportunities for Building Resilience: A Critical Assessment of Transition Initiatives in Spain
o C8 month project, Apr - Nov 2013
Autonomous Barcelona Univesity (UAB), Urban Resilience Researchers Network (URBnet), Red de Transición España (REDTE) (Spanish Transition Network).
Dr Lorenzo Chelleri (Project leader)
Juan Del Rio
Serena Trinelli
In response to the recent establishment of numerous transition initiatives following the economic crisis in Spain, this project aimed to assess and support those initiatives during their early, tentative, stages. Linked with the creation of a new national transition network website, it employed qualitative methods to assess the barriers and opportunities experienced in efforts at building community resilience.
The project included three phases:
A final workshop titled "Barreras y oportunidades para las iniciativas sociales hacia la sostenibilidad – Creando puentes en tiempos de Cambio" was held in Barcelona at the end of the project, on the 21st of February 2014. There we presented: the the results of our first national level assessment of Transition Initiatives, the new network of REDTE, the Transition Research Network as well as the European network ECOLISE (European Community-Led Initiatives for a Sustainable Europe), and during an intensive day of debate we aimed to promote knowledge exchange among Degrowth, Transition, and many other social movements co-existing in Barcelona.
Lorenzo Chelleri and Juan del Rio presented a paper on the research at a Transition Research Network/ECOLISE-hosted session at the Resilience 2014 conference in Montpellier, France. The paper later became a chapter in the book Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation.
Autonomous Barcelona Univesity (UAB), Urban Resilience Researchers Network (URBnet), Red de Transición España (REDTE) (Spanish Transition Network).
Dr Lorenzo Chelleri (Project leader)
Juan Del Rio
Serena Trinelli
In response to the recent establishment of numerous transition initiatives following the economic crisis in Spain, this project aimed to assess and support those initiatives during their early, tentative, stages. Linked with the creation of a new national transition network website, it employed qualitative methods to assess the barriers and opportunities experienced in efforts at building community resilience.
The project included three phases:
- Identification and mapping of Transition Initiatives nationwide
- Semi-structured interviews (19 in-depth interviews)
- Final report with a first orientative assessment
A final workshop titled "Barreras y oportunidades para las iniciativas sociales hacia la sostenibilidad – Creando puentes en tiempos de Cambio" was held in Barcelona at the end of the project, on the 21st of February 2014. There we presented: the the results of our first national level assessment of Transition Initiatives, the new network of REDTE, the Transition Research Network as well as the European network ECOLISE (European Community-Led Initiatives for a Sustainable Europe), and during an intensive day of debate we aimed to promote knowledge exchange among Degrowth, Transition, and many other social movements co-existing in Barcelona.
Lorenzo Chelleri and Juan del Rio presented a paper on the research at a Transition Research Network/ECOLISE-hosted session at the Resilience 2014 conference in Montpellier, France. The paper later became a chapter in the book Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation.
