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1. Just Environments : Politicising Sustainable Urban Development
Sammanfattning : European cities are becoming increasingly multicultural and diverse in terms of lifestyles and socioeconomic conditions. However, in planning for sustainable urban development, implications of this increased diversity and possibly conflicting perspectives are seldom considered. LÄS MER
2. Making sense of sufficiency : Entries, practices and politics
Sammanfattning : The affluent groups and societies in the world have made material consumption part of their lifestyle. Today, overconsumption has come to constitute an acute environmental problem, both with regards to the natural resources needed to satisfy our ever-growing wants, and to the mountains of waste it leaves behind. LÄS MER
3. Unpacking Swedish Sustainability : The promotion and circulation of sustainable urbanism
Sammanfattning : Sweden has been praised for its achievements, and promoted as a role model, in sustainable urban development. This thesis, comprising five separate articles and a cover essay, is a critical study of the Swedish urban sustainable imaginary. The first article examines how this imaginary is produced. LÄS MER
4. Scaling sufficiency : Towards less material consumption
Sammanfattning : Various researchers have pointed out that avoiding further catastrophicconsequences related to the deteriorating ecological state of the planet,brought about by unsustainable production and consumption patterns,requires not only technological innovation and efficiency in productionprocesses, but also absolute reductions in energy and material use (i.e. LÄS MER
5. Lyssnandets praktik : Medborgardialog, icke-vetande och förskjutningar
Sammanfattning : I dialogforskning och planeringspraktik pekas det ofta på vikten av att skapa fler forum för att ”ge röst” till invånargrupper i syfte att skapa mer politiskt jämlika processer, stärka demokrati och social hållbarhet (Abrahamsson, 2015) samtidigt som mindre fokus sätts på de praktiker och vanor som avgör vad som kan höras. Det är en omöjlighet att lyssna på allt, ett lyssnande innebär därmed alltid ett sorterande där vissa saker får utrymme och annat blir bortsorterat (Palmås och von Bush, 2015). LÄS MER