The Governance of Urban Green Spaces in the EU

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 Framing the research -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Research context and questions -- 1.3 Structure of the book -- 2 Towards a post-growth society and economy -- 2.1 Analysis of societal conditions: modernisation theory -- 2.2 The ecological basis: climate change and further planetary boundaries -- 2.3 The economic growth trap: a system theoretical approach -- 2.4 Approaches for redefining economy and society -- 3 Governing commons -- 3.1 Commons - a special type of goods -- 3.2 Countering the 'tragedy of the commons' -- 3.3 Principles of the governance of commons following Ostrom -- 3.4 Critique of Ostrom's theory -- 3.5 Policy implications -- 4 Methodological approach -- 4.1 Embedding the research into an interdisciplinary multi-stakeholder project -- 4.2 Applying Ostrom's theory to urban resource systems - the WWWforEurope project ROCSET -- 4.3 Research strategy -- 5 Urban spaces-green spaces, and observed socio-ecological transition -- 5.1 The relevance of cities for the socio-ecological transition -- 5.2 The relevance of green spaces for cities -- 5.3 The state of the local socio-ecological transition and of the green spaces resource system - decreasing availability of urban green spaces -- 6 Social innovation and urban spaces of civil society action -- 6.1 Social innovation -- 6.2 The corrective power of civil society -- 6.3 Spaces of civil society action -- 7 Reappropriating urban green spaces and urban food production -- 7.1 Power, democracy, and public space -- 7.2 Disappearance and loss of public space/privatisation -- 7.3 (Re)appropriation of public space - defending urban green spaces: self-organisation in reaction to the reduction of urban green spaces for building and infrastructure development.