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TY - JOUR
T1 - Reorganizing public value for city life in the Anthropocene
AU - Gasparin, Marta
AU - Quinn, Martin
AU - Williams, Mark
AU - Saren, Michael
AU - Lilley, Simon
AU - Green, William
AU - Brown, Steven D.
AU - Zalasiewicz, Jan
PY - 2024/10/31
Y1 - 2024/10/31
N2 - Public value and city governance are fundamental notions in contemporary settings, but, currently conceived, they are not fit for the challenges presented by the proposed new epoch of geological time—the Anthropocene. Walking through the locked-down streets or calle of Venice, we face the sudden emptiness that starkly reveals the impact of human activity on the city and its waterways. Reflecting on the walk, our starting point is to problematize how a city organizes and manages public value and what actually constitutes public value. In this, we develop a new definition, “New Public Value for the Anthropocene Epoch” (NPVA), which expands the notion of public value through the questions: “who” is it valuable to do things for, beyond humans and economic actors, building on a relational epistemology to incorporate the planet and its biosphere; and “what” is valuable to do, in order to ensure the inclusion of social, environmental, and cultural values alongside economic values. We conclude by arguing that NPVA is organized across scales in a manner that embeds global attentiveness toward local ecosystems solutions to drive the global response to the environmental crisis we all face.
AB - Public value and city governance are fundamental notions in contemporary settings, but, currently conceived, they are not fit for the challenges presented by the proposed new epoch of geological time—the Anthropocene. Walking through the locked-down streets or calle of Venice, we face the sudden emptiness that starkly reveals the impact of human activity on the city and its waterways. Reflecting on the walk, our starting point is to problematize how a city organizes and manages public value and what actually constitutes public value. In this, we develop a new definition, “New Public Value for the Anthropocene Epoch” (NPVA), which expands the notion of public value through the questions: “who” is it valuable to do things for, beyond humans and economic actors, building on a relational epistemology to incorporate the planet and its biosphere; and “what” is valuable to do, in order to ensure the inclusion of social, environmental, and cultural values alongside economic values. We conclude by arguing that NPVA is organized across scales in a manner that embeds global attentiveness toward local ecosystems solutions to drive the global response to the environmental crisis we all face.
KW - Anthropocene
KW - cities
KW - leadership
KW - pluriverse
KW - public value
KW - relational epistemology
KW - value
KW - walking as method
U2 - 10.1177/13505084241236453
DO - 10.1177/13505084241236453
M3 - Journal article
VL - 31
SP - 1070
EP - 1091
JO - Organization
JF - Organization
SN - 1350-5084
IS - 7
ER -