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- Femenias, Paula, 1966, et al.
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Rusta med miljön i fokus!
- 2007
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Ingår i: Invandrare & Minoriteter. ; 34:4-5, s. 42-46
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- Gillberg, Gunnar, 1959, et al.
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Livsformsanalys och lokalt utvecklingsarbete: En pilotstudie om analysmetodens potental vid studier av socialt kapital, social ekonomi och hållbar utveckling
- 2002
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report describes the outcome of an interdisciplinary project at the Department of Work Science at Göteborg Univer- sity and at the Department of Built Environment & Sustainable Development at Chalmers Architecture. The purpose of the project was to try out a specific method Life Mode Analysis and to analyse its potentials to support local development work, with a particular focus on social capital, and the two interrelated themes of social economy and sustainable development. The interviewees in the field investigation have a background as refugees, as the study take a special interest in under- standing how the method is functioning in housing areas where the inhabitants to a large extent have had such experiences. The results of the study indicate a need for an integration of theories concerning social exclusion into or as a parallel to Life Mode Analysis. At least, this seems to be a necessity if the method is to be used in areas with many refugees, such as the suburban areas from the 60s and 70s surrounding major swedish urban centres. In other respects, Life Mode Analysis seems to be a relevant and very useful method for facilitating local development work. This is due to its potential to indicate how people in different life modes choose to engage them selves in social life. In the report it is also discussed how social economy is related to social capi- tal, as it is dependent on the existence of social capital, and at the same time contributes to its production. Further, sustainable development is discussed it is also related to social capital as this constitutes one of the four cornerstones which together define the notion of sustainable development.
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- Stenberg, Jenny, 1959
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Bridging Gaps: Sustainable Development and Local Democracy Processes
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis examines the relation between the notion of sustainable development and broad public participation in local decision-making local democracy processes. The empirical part of the thesis is comprised of a field investigation with the purpose of exploring the potential of the interviewed local professionals to work as transformers of the notion of sustainable development at the local level. The findings indicate that they do, how- ever, there exist several obstacles that need to be overcome. One significant outcome is the observation of the obvious lack of influence of the inhabitants on local decision-making. An- other result is that environmental issues are not extensively discussed by local professionals. Yet one more important observation is that the accounts of the respondents reflect a common criticism of the way that proceedings are implemented, i.e., mainly from the top. In this context the vision of sustainable development is not an exception. Taken together, all the problems that the respondents describe as main obstacles may be seen as forming a thorough description of the distance or gap between top-down management and bottom-up needs. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on a review of the literature exploring the themes related to the problematic of bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up perspec- tives. The review indicates new ways of perceiving this gap in itself. There exist, at least, four distinctive gaps which seem to obstruct positive local development: the gap between top and bottom; the gap between abstract and concrete; the gap between place and place; and the gap between the four dimensions of sustainable development. It is also discussed whether or not it is desirable to develop one single approach with the purpose of bridging all four gaps. Or if it is better to deal with this problematic by structuring for an assembly of methodologies consti- tuting successive layers of transformation, each one bridging a distinct gap. In such a case, it appears essential to keep track of the whole chain of successive layers of transformation. Is such a comprehensive perspective of the different approaches keeping track of the chain that is lacking today? Is there instead a chain of discontinuities, i.e., a chain of gaps?
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- Stenberg, Jenny, 1959
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‘Multi-facetted Evaluation for Sustainable Development: Managing the Intermix of Mind, Artefact, Institution and Nature’
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Ingår i: New Principles Planning and Evaluation. Hull, Angela, Abdul Khakee, Donald Miller, John Woltjer (Eds.). Ashgate.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Implementing the vision of sustainable development imply a need for multi-dimensional evaluations. The discussion in this paper is based on experience from two evaluations of Swedish national funding programmes – the Local Development Agreements and the Local Investment Programmes – and a thesis focusing on how urban design and planning are related to the changes in so-called exposed suburban metropolitan areas in Sweden. In the last mentioned evaluation the aim was to link environmental aspects and social aspects, scrutinizing this relationship with a special focus on eight environmental and seven social themes related to the evaluation questions. For this purpose the evaluation was designed inspired by case study evaluation, including ten projects in housing areas from the sixties and seventies in the study. The empirical material consisted of four different types of information – an environmental matrix; a mass media study; interviews with tenants and employees; and statistical data about the housing areas. The theories we applied for analysing the empirical material – the MAINtetra – has been developed to facilitate for the understanding of complex problems coming from an ambiguous reality. The model, thus, facilitates for relating different knowledge areas and building up an understanding of how they are related to each other in the perspective of sustainable development. Utilizing the MAINtetra as model for systematizing and analysing empirical material showed to be helpful when evaluating projects from the perspective of linking social and environmental effects. First, because the model implied a consciousness of how the empirical material was related the broad vision of sustainable development. Second, the model implied that we were influenced to focus on how the conflicting perspectives presented by different local actors related to the broad vision of sustainable development. In the concluding chapter we also present some difficulties we experienced when using the MAINtetra, additionally some limitations of the software Hyper Research.
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- Stenberg, Jenny, 1959
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Planning in Interplace: On Transformation of Stigmatized and Ethnically Segregated Suburban Metropolitan Housing Areas
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Ingår i: Life in the Urban Landscape, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Suburban metropolitan areas in Sweden built in the sixties and seventies are often considered exposed areas and are consequently involved in interventions aimed at dealing with problems such as unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. This paper, which is built on the results from a thesis within the field of planning and sustainable development, focuses on how urban planning is related to this social problem. The case study in the thesis comprised an evaluation of an area-based funding programme called the Local Development Agreements. The research question was related to the roles of local employees. What can the field of planning learn from the case study if implementation of the funding programme is considered in relation to national policies as well as citizens opinions? The empirical material was analysed using a critical realist understanding of reality and from the point of view of three theoretical themes: time, power and learning. In short, the analysis revealed that local employees found it difficult to make use of the funding programme for learning: Although the programme brought to light triggers for learning with potential to challenge theories-in-use counterproductive to double-loop learning on themes in focus in the programme, the option to learn was most often not triggered by the employees. The reason was multifaceted and related to the three theoretical themes, however, considering the overall outcome, it was obvious to ask whether existing organizations actually have the potential to make changes with regard to extensive themes such as social inclusion. Then again, it was also revealed that the involved local employees were neither responsible for initiating learning processes nor prepared to handle any conflicting perspectives between prospective learning processes and ordinary procedures. Triggers for learning were revealed in the »interplace« a third world closely related to the Aristotelian notion of phronesis and with potential to enhance understanding between the two worlds of space and place. Planning based on interplace-divided understanding of the environment, as a complement, may be an option, considering the vision of sustainable development. Such a strategy for sustainable development is not new. What is new is rather the focus on how this could be accomplished taking into consideration the local prerequisites of stigmatized and ethnically segregated suburban metropolitan housing areas.
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- Stenberg, Jenny, 1959
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Villkor för lokala demokratiprocesser: En intervjuundersökning i Göteborg
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report represents one part of a research project called Local Democracy Processes and Sustainable Development, which was initiated in January 1999 at the School of Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. It aims at analysing how local democracy processes, as they are described in the Agenda 21 document, are related to sustainable development in its broader perspective. The project is delimited to studying such processes in housing areas of the 50s, the 60s and the 70s. Project leader is professor Anne Marie Wilhelmsen and the research work is carried out by Jenny Stenberg, architect and PhD student. The report contains the results of a field investigation conducted in 1999, in which twenty-seven local actors in Göteborg were interviewed about their experiences of local democracy processes. Most of the interviewees were employed in housing companies and city district committees. They have had either extensive experiences of local democracy processes or a stated will to develop an explicit bottom-up perspective in their districts. The aim of the study was to gather the knowledge and experiences of the local actors concerning such proces- ses, and further to illustrate the possibilities of incorporating them into mainstream decision-making. Yet another aim was to analyse these experiences in relation to the broad definition of sustainable development. The most apparent result of the investigation is the complex picture of local democracy processes given by the actors. It is thus not possible to find a few important obstacles to be overcome or a specific prerequisite essential for success. There also exist several distinct opinions about what is causing the difficulties related to incorporating these processes into existing structures. In the final chapter some important aspects concerning local democracy processes are discussed, such as economy and financing, co-operation and power, visible results, and the different views on the two concepts of project and process. Further, the definition of sustainable development and the possible meaning of the notion in the local context is discussed. This leads to yet another discussion about decision-making and the actual lack of knowledge concerning the environmental dimension of sustainable development in the local context. Finally the report is concluded by discussing the relevance of three interrelated hypotheses. Firstly, it may be argued that the introduction of four-dimensional decision-domains within the local context could facilitate the development of local learning processes. Secondly, these learning processes may be seen as essential for the development of common value-grounds. Thirdly, such common value-grounds may be seen as necessary in order to facilitate the fulfillment of the goal of sustainable development.
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