Fig. 2: The Goals-Intervention-Stakeholder-Enablers (GISE) framework as an architecture for the study of public policy of human settlements in the context of climate change, embedded in transdisciplinary research.
From: Towards a public policy of cities and human settlements in the 21st century

Public policy of human settlements builds on system knowledge, orientation knowledge, and transformation knowledge and relies on and aims to provide process knowledge. Knowledge creation (downward arrow) starts with system knowledge and understanding as well as orientation knowledge, which then induces the search for goal specific transformation knowledge. Action (upward arrow) starts the other way around, first aligning relevant actors and designing contextual enabling factors that lead to interventions that aim to achieve the desired goals.