SharedAgendas.org Applied Frameworks bring the Shared Agendas approach into specific fields such as cities and territories, bioeconomy, or planetary health. They provide structured ways to understand the system conditions shaping these fields, the relationships between them and the dynamics that emerge from these relationships.
These fields are deeply interconnected in place-based contexts. Applied Frameworks provide complementary analytical perspectives that can be brought together in place-based configurations, connecting the relationships relevant to a particular situation and direction of change.
SharedAgendas.org Applied Frameworks bring the Shared Agendas approach into specific fields such as cities and territories, bioeconomy, or planetary health. They provide structured ways to understand the system conditions shaping these fields, the relationships between them and the dynamics that emerge from these relationships.
These fields are deeply interconnected in place-based contexts. Applied Frameworks provide complementary analytical perspectives that can be brought together in place-based configurations, connecting the relationships relevant to a particular situation and direction of change.
An operational framework for developing place-based circular bioeconomy pathways
The Bioeconomy Framework provides a place-based approach to developing competitive and sustainable bioeconomy pathways that connect biological resources with productive capabilities, technologies, infrastructure and demand.
It examines the conditions that enable these pathways to become economically viable and develop at scale, including resource reliability, productive capacity, market formation, investment, value-chain coordination and governance. It explores how pathway development can combine wider strategic contribution, rural economic development and natural capital stewardship, and how these dimensions can reinforce one another over time.
The framework supports Shared Agendas and place-based bioeconomy strategies in identifying and developing bioeconomy pathways, understanding the conditions and interdependencies shaping their development, and organising complementary actions and investments around a shared direction.
An operational framework for resilient and regenerative transformation of urban-territorial systems
Living Cities and Territories approaches cities and territories as interconnected socio-ecological systems, where urban resilience depends on the relationships between people, the economy, nature and the wider territories and bioregions in which cities are embedded.
The framework provides a shared direction for resilient and regenerative transformation, organised around six principles and four systemic portfolios of action. It relates these principles and portfolios to the conditions and dynamics shaping urban-territorial change, and to monitoring approaches that help interpret how transformation unfolds over time.
It is designed to support place-based work while providing a common structure that can be adapted across different territorial contexts and connected to wider Shared Agenda processes.
Structural conditions and governance requirements for sustaining Shared Agendas
Organising collective action for systemic change under conditions of uncertainty, interdependence and distributed responsibility places demands that expose structural constraints in existing organisational and institutional arrangements. Sustaining Shared Agendas over time brings these constraints into focus.
Experience from place-based collective processes for systemic change shows that difficulties in maintaining coordination, connecting learning to decision-making, and holding shared direction are present from the outset and intensify as initiatives and actors multiply over time.
This document examines how these challenges arise in practice and identifies the key governance tensions and infrastructural requirements for sustaining Shared Agendas over time.
