Managing Water for the City of the Future The SWITCH Transition Manual Fourth Draft for Carol Howe Dundee, Scotland February 2011 The SWITCH Transition Manual The principal authors of this document were: Chris Jefferies & Alison Duffy University of Abertay Dundee, United Kingdom:
[email protected] ISBN 1-899796-23-1 (10 digit) and 978-1-899796-23-6. (13 Digit) Table of Contents Section 1 Setting the Scene Section 3 The Transition Management Cycle 35 Introduction 3 The Transition Management Cycle What’s the problem – Why SWITCH from the old paradigm? 5 Transition Management Activities 35 Examples of the problem 6 Transition Management Clusters 35 What can we do about it? 7 What is the new paradigm? 8 The Arena 36 What might a transition city look like? 10 The Agenda 38 Examples of moving towards the new paradigm 12 Experiments 39 What is transitioning? 15 Monitoring, Evaluating, Learning 40 The Multi-Phase Concept 16 Multi-Level Perspective 17 41 Transition Management 19 Transition Management Activities Transition Management Levels 20 Develop the Transition Arena 42 The Strategic Level 21 Organise / Facilitate Stakeholders 43 The Tactical Level 21 The Operational Level 22 Identify Problems and Issues 44 Develop Long Term Integrated Vision 44 Section 2 The SWITCH Transition Framework Developing Transition Agenda 45 Explained Transition Experiments 46 Identify Responsible Parties 47 The Transition Framework 25 The Transition Management Cycle 25 Process Documentation & Capacity Building 47 Transition Management Clusters 26 Evaluation