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[Ásta Möller]

Reykjavíkurborg og Stofnun stjórnsýslufræða og stjórnmála við Háskóla 
Íslands 

bjóða til opins fyrirlestrar fimmtudaginn 16. desember kl. 12-13 í Odda 
stofu 101 

Skiptir þátttaka almennings máli fyrir sjálfbærni borgarsamfélaga?






Does civic participation matter for sustainability in cities?  Comparing 
the civic culture of Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada and 
implications for sustainable policies.? er yfirskrift fyrirlestrar  Dr. 
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, kennara í stjórnsýslufræðum við University of 
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  Hann var gestaprófessor við 
stjórnmálafræðideild Háskóla Íslands 2009.  Rannsóknir hans eru m.a. á 
sviði borgarfræða, borgaralegrar þátttöku og samanburðarstjórnmála   

Í fyrirlestrinum ræðir hann rannsókn sína á þremur borgum í Kanada, 
Calgary, Vancouver og Toronto, en þar skoðar hann m.a. hvað hvaða þættir 
valda því að þær eru taldar meðal 25 fremstu borga í heimi þegar metin eru 
lífsgæði íbúanna.     

Í fyrirlestrinum fjallar Dr. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly m.a. um eftirfarandi. 
?In 2009, and for the fifth year in a row Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver, 
Canada, ranked at the top 25 of the Mercer Quality of Life survey yet 
there is little understanding of what makes those three cities the most 
liveable in the world and furthermore there is little to differentiate 
among them. Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto are the largest Anglophone 
metropolitan regions of Canada and exemplify the richness of the many 
processes that set the civic culture of large contemporary cities. Yet, 
each city?s civic culture varies and so do their sustainable policies: 

This paper focuses on what drives the social and economic construction of 
each three large city, pointing to the complex linkages that tie agents to 
their environment. It questions whether power arises from strong popular 
control and local democratic and participatory values, where group 
interactions produce and co-produce sustainable policies, and specifically 
question the relationship between citizen engagement and the production 
and reproduction of urban sustainable policies. The paper looks at regime 
openness as more or less stable, and questions each city?s socially and 
fiscally progressive or rather conservative and pro-development culture. 
It documents those cities activist, tolerant and entrepreneurial civic 
cultures? What emerges is a contrasted picture of the civic culture of 
each city, and of their sustainable policies.? 

Bio: 
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, LLB (Aix-en-Provence, 1983), MA, (Paris I - 
Sorbonne 1985, and Virginia Polytechnic and State University, 1988), Ph.D. 
(University of Western Ontario, 1999) is an Associate Professor in the 
School of Public Administration, at the University of Victoria, British 
Columbia, Canada. He is Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban and Border 
Region Policy. He is co-director of the Local Government Institute, 
director of the European Studies minor and of the European Union Centre 
for Excellence. Since January 2009, he is the editor of Journal of 
Borderlands Studies (Routledge). His key research areas are comparative 
urban governance, and the governance of cross-border regions, with a 
specific focus on comparative decentralization, horizontal and vertical 
governance, and the theorization of cross-border regions. His research 
work has appeared or is forthcoming in nine books and edited scholarly 
journals, and over 50 articles and book chapters in the following refereed 
journals and presses: Canadian American Public Policy, Canadian Annual 
Review of Politics and Public Affair, Geopolitics, International Journal 
of Economic Development, Journal of Borderland Studies, Journal of Urban 
Affairs, Region and Cohesion, University of Toronto Press, University Of 
Ottawa Press, Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Rowan and 
Littlefield (Lanham, MD), Commonwealth Local Government Forum (London, 
UK), Hassleholm; (Sweden), Queen?s Mc Gill University Press, Septentrion 
University Press, Lille, (France), and Katharla publishers, Paris, 
(France). 


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forstöðumaður/director 

Stofnun stjórnsýslufræða og stjórnmála / Institute of Public Management 
and Politics. 
Háskóli Íslands/University of Iceland 
Gimli við Sæmundargötu, 101 Reykjavík 
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