Zhou, Ke;
Warwick, Elanor;
Ucci, Marcella;
Davies, Mike;
Zimmermann, Nici;
(2024)
Sustaining Attention to Sustainability, Health, and Well-Being in Urban Regeneration.
Organization & Environment
, 37
(1)
10.1177/10860266241236972.
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Abstract
In urban regeneration projects, balancing environmental, social, and economic aspects is crucial but challenging, often leading to mission drift when team focus deviates from the original goals. Through a case study of regeneration projects at a large U.K. housing association, we explore decision makers’ attention to sustainability, health, and well-being as core elements of social mission. We combined qualitative analysis with an examination of structural complexities and system behaviors, adopting a systems thinking perspective. Analysis of attention patterns in regeneration meetings reveals that attention to the social missions was not sustained, with evident attention shifts toward financial costs and risks. Also, sustainability is prioritized less than health and well-being topics. We use a causal loop diagram to describe the underlying mechanisms that drive attention dynamics, highlighting how the structural complexities can undermine sustainable development in regeneration. Finally, we propose strategies to sustain attention toward sustainability, health, and well-being in regeneration.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Sustaining Attention to Sustainability, Health, and Well-Being in Urban Regeneration |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/10860266241236972 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266241236972 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2024. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | urban regeneration, decision processes, causal loop diagrams, housing association, attentionbased view, institutional complexity, systems thinking |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10190393 |
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