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The Blue-Green Alley Alliance: Creating and Maintaining Spaces for Urban Sustainability Innovations
Case 9 100 2022 001
Languages : 
  • English
Keywords: 
  • Sustainability of innovation,
  • Collaboration,
  • Mutualization,
  • Grassroots innovation,
  • Role of researchers in sustainability innovation,
  • Stormwater management
Year of production : 
2022
Registration date : 
2022-01-24
Teaching notes included : 
Yes
Abstract

The prevailing urban water management systems treat stormwater as a nuisance to be channelled away from cities; however, cities need water to maintain a green urban environment and for local cooling, and rainwater retention helps to eliminate droughts and flooding caused by climate change. Les Ateliers Ublo supports the creation of blue-green alleys to achieve better participatory stormwater management in Montreal. To this end, it created an alliance of urban actors and acquired funding for a pilot project. Implementing the pilot project posed numerous challenges, however. This case analyzes the various processes at play in participatory sustainability innovations and the complex roles of researchers and changemakers in such innovation processes.

Primary domain : 
Business ethics  - Sustainable development
Secondary domain : 
Not available
Sectors : 
  • Environment
Source : 
HEC Montréal
Type : 
Traditional case (Descriptive or analytical case)
Type of data used in the production of the case : 
Factual data that is public and free of potentially litigious content
Event location : 
Canada
Year of start of the event : 
2020
Year the event ended : 
2021
Business size : 
Variable
Teaching objectives
  • Understand and analyze conscientization, conciliation, and collaboration processes in participatory urban sustainability innovation
  • Analyze the roles of researchers and changemakers in innovation processes, including the tension between those roles
  • Increase the environmental literacy of students with respect to a major sustainability challenge – urban stormwater management – and its relation to climate change and land use.