Table 1 Frontiers in boundary spanning for climate action in practice - emerging concepts, practice challenges and levers
From: Tales of boundary spanning for climate actions in cities: from theory to practice, and back
Boundary roles | Conceptual frames/metaphors | Practice challenges | Levers |
|---|---|---|---|
As influencers and leaders | The bridge and the anchor | Building new bridges and burning old ones | Building trust and respect, expertise in different knowledge universes and adapting to evolving needs |
As shifting actors in between spaces | The messy middle | Balancing emotions and responsibilities, relationships and friction | Multi-perspective, morphing roles, embracing friction, experimenting with blind spots |
As rhizomic entities | Rhizomes in the forest | Testing university administration boundaries in formal community collaborations | Funnelling knowledge and resources towards supporting contribution and creativity from grassroots |
As invisible (yet critical) actors | The unacknowledged art of connecting/collaborating | Demonstrating emergent, long-term and contribution impact | Revisiting conventional impact metrics, contribution analysis |
