This guide to the Wellington region in Aotearoa New Zealand documents a range of innovative initiatives helping activate and maintain transitions in ecological, energy, economic, community and built environment
Our cities are facing complex socio-ecological crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequity. This changing environment is challenging, but it can also galvanise more positive change for resilient and regenerative urban systems. Some of these transitions are already occurring across different domains, in ecological, economic, and energy systems, in community networks, in the built environment and buildings. These transitions are small and localised to neighbourhoods or communities, or large, as for example in the new zero-carbon energy systems or flood resilient wetland infrastructures currently being distributed across cities and surrounding landscapes. These changes are being driven by diverse actors – including Indigenous groups, communities, scientists, activists, urban authorities, and businesses. This Guide documents a range of innovative initiatives or projects occurring in the Greater Wellington region to help activate positive transitions more broadly.
