Cities in the lead of sustainable transitions. The structuration of an emergent field of waste prevention policies in Sweden

• This paper examines the role of cities in sustainability transitions informed by institutional entrepreneurship theory, and based on the case of waste prevention projects in the city of Göteborg. The paper is structured by two research questions: how do municipalities perform the new role of waste prevention? And what are the implications of this new role for sustainable transitions? The paper shows how cities can turn into agents of change and institutional entrepreneurship through the recombination and mobilization of resources (human, financial, material and spatial), rationales (reframing symbols, challenging taboos and transforming waste socio-materialities) and relations (via internal and external collaboration, and the creation of new institutional arrangements, roles and expectations). Emerging environmental policies, such as waste prevention, represent the structuration of a new organizational field. This new generation of environmental policies operate expanding the scope of the public sector (publicness); challenging taboos such the intromission of the publicness into the privateness; and eroding a predominant pro-growth logic.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap -- Studier av offentlig förvaltning (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science -- Public Administration Studies (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Waste prevention

city

sustainability

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