Deliverable 1.3: Synthesis research report: Democratising jUst Sustainability Transitions. DUST : Work Package 1, Task 1.3

This deliverable (D) 1.3 summarizes the research findings from the project Democratising jUst Sustainability Transitions (DUST) and documents the research process undertaken during the project’s duration. Building on theoretical, conceptual, and methodological frameworks developed in work package (WP)1, research facilitated an analysis of citizen participation in place-based policymaking oriented towards just sustainability transitions in WP2 and 3, as well as the experimental testing of participatory instruments in living labs, referred to as Regional Futures Literacy Labs (RFLLs), in this context in WP4 and 5. Intermediate steps of synthesis ensured that the scope, depth, and determining factors of citizen participation that were identified during the early analytical WPs were targeted in the later experimental WPs. Against this background the main research findings that are presented in chapters of this report can be read as a consecutive elaboration of the projects’ main question: How can the delivery of place-based policies for just sustainability transitions enhance citizen participation and trust in democratic governance, especially among least-engaged communities (LECs)?