IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aza/jurr00/y2021v15i1p141-154.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The role universities and cities can play in the EU’s Green Deal

Author

Listed:
  • Cerutti, Stefania

    (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi per l’Economia e l’Impresa, Italy)

  • Boccaleri, Enrico

    (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Via Michel, Italy)

  • Ferrero, Enrico

    (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Via Michel, Italy)

Abstract

Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat to Europe and the world. To overcome these challenges, Europe has shaped a new strategy, the European Green Deal, to help the EU’s economy become sustainable. Much of its success will be determined by European cities where around 75 per cent of the European population live, work, travel and study. This paper considers European cities and their universities, in particular their strategic role in addressing societal and environmental challenges, training the younger generation, investing in research and engaging local communities in the transformational actions urgently needed. In particular, concrete actions and steps made by the University of Piemonte Orientale (UPO) in Italy to address environmental sustainability and social responsibility are presented in this paper.

Suggested Citation

  • Cerutti, Stefania & Boccaleri, Enrico & Ferrero, Enrico, 2021. "The role universities and cities can play in the EU’s Green Deal," Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 15(1), pages 141-154, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jurr00:y:2021:v:15:i:1:p:141-154
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hstalks.com/article/6620/download/
    Download Restriction: Requires a paid subscription for full access.
    File URL: https://hstalks.com/article/6620/
    Download Restriction: Requires a paid subscription for full access.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Green Deal; European Union (EU) policy; environmental challenges; sustainability; cities; universities;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z33 - Other Special Topics - - Tourism Economics - - - Marketing and Finance

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aza:jurr00:y:2021:v:15:i:1:p:141-154. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Henry Stewart Talks (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.