RECREATE - Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas Kick-off Meeting

1. RECREATE Johan HolmqvistOslo, May 20th 2019

2. WHY RECREATE To find the best way to utilize our common resources in a optimal way, to keep and build a sustainable, resilient and viable city RECREATE - Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas Kick-off Meeting

3. Resource nexus for transformation to circular, resilient, and liveable cities in the context of climate change Co-partners: Malmö City, Chalmers University of Technology, Sysav - South Scania Waste Company RECREATE - Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas Kick-off Meeting

4. Project members Johan Holmqvist, Project coordinator; Alexandra Wu, Co-project coordinator; Steve Hiller, scientist Brian Fath, senior scientist; Wei Liu, senior scientist; Fabian Wagner, senior scientist RECREATE - Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas Kick-off Meeting

5. Bin Chen, Principal Investigator; Delin Fang, Scientist; Siyuan Yang, Scientist Yutao Wang, senior scientist; Marie Harder, senior scientist; Huan YanYan, scientist Ning Zhang, senior scientist Wenjie Wu, senior scientist; Guanglai Zhang and Weijie Zhang, Ph.D students RECREATE - Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas Kick-off Meeting

6. Aim of the project To identify roles, opportunities, and pathways for cities to foster circular economy to significantly reduce energy, water and material resource use, and related environmental impacts, to build resilience to ever-increasing uncertainties from globalization and climate changes, and to become more liveable for growing populations in different urbanization contexts in China and Europe. It will involve separate, and then integrated, work with the four cities of Beijing, Malmo, Shanghai and Vienna. This will be achieved by developing, establishing, and implementing quantitative methods for urban metabolism, on the basis of which to propose urban resource cycles and allocation schemes, and to provide theoretical and methodological foundations for building urban resilience to potential social, economic, and environmental stress. RECREATE RECREATE - Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas Kick-off Meeting

7. Project objectives and targets • Identify key inherent strengths and the current sustainability status of the case study cities • Use novel scenario analyses (i.e., policy exercise) to identify pathways and key opportunities where cities can foster the transformation to be more liveable, circular, and resilient • Identify key current challenges hindering evolution to the circular economy, both in general and bespoke for each city’s unique context and social perspectives • Assess the impact footprints of future scenarios in the studied cities that embrace a circular economy/industrial symbiosis approach, whilst minimizing life cycle environmental impact and remaining within reasonable local boundaries of social shared values. RECREATE - Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas Kick-off Meeting RECREATE