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- Kronsell, Annica, et al.
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The Green State and Emphatic Rationality
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rethinking the Green State. Environmental governance towards climate and sustainability transitions. - 9781138792517 ; , s. 225-240
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- Aggestam, Karin, et al.
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Theorising feminist foreign policy
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 0047-1178 .- 1741-2862. ; 33:1, s. 23-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A growing number of states including Canada, Norway and Sweden have adopted gender and feminist-informed approaches to their foreign and security policies. The overarching aim of this article is to advance a theoretical framework that can enable a thoroughgoing study of these developments. Through a feminist lens, we theorise feminist foreign policy arguing that it is, to all intents and purposes, ethical and argue that existing studies of ethical foreign policy and international conduct are by and large gender-blind. We draw upon feminist international relations (IR) theory and the ethics of care to theorise feminist foreign policy and to advance an ethical framework that builds on a relational ontology, which embraces the stories and lived experiences of women and other marginalised groups at the receiving end of foreign policy conduct. By way of conclusion, the article highlights the novel features of the emergent framework and investigates in what ways it might be useful for future analyses of feminist foreign policy. Moreover, we discuss its potential to generate new forms of theoretical insight, empirical knowledge and policy relevance for the refinement of feminist foreign policy practice.
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- Andersen, M. S., et al.
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To facilitate a fair bioeconomy transition, stronger regional-level linkages are needed
- 2022
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Ingår i: Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining-Biofpr. - : Wiley. - 1932-104X .- 1932-1031. ; 16:4, s. 929-941
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The great hopes in Brussels that a circular bioeconomy will help bridge the growing divide between urban and rural areas and allow the hinterlands to prosper from 'green growth' are addressed in this article, which reflects on insights from three Nordic case studies of brown, green and blue biomass use at different levels of technology readiness. A closer examination of the forward, backward, fiscal and final demand linkages at regional level from increased biomass utilization, from eastern Finland and northern Sweden to Jutland and North Atlantic islands, suggests that linkages are and will remain relatively weak, predominantly dashing the expectations. As suppliers and exporters of natural resources, disadvantaged regions may all too easily get locked into a 'staples trap', where the value creation evaporates owing in part to the steep start-up costs and the associated boom-and-bust cycles, which place them in a weak position vis-a-vis the resource manufacturers and consumers. To make the prospects of development, employment and prosperity in the hinterlands materialize, measures are needed to strengthen the regional-level economic linkages. Regional-level revolving funds based on benefit-sharing instruments related to natural resources can be used to bolster economic development, as reflected in such schemes present in both China and Canada. We call for further research into whether and how such approaches can be replicated successfully by channeling revenues from biomass cultivation to regional-scale revolving funds, with mandates to strengthen long-term economic linkages and prosperity within the hinterlands. (c) 2022 The Authors. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining published by Society of Industrial Chemistry and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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- Andersson, Fredrik N G, et al.
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Möjlighetsfönster står öppet
- 2011
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Ingår i: Sydsvenskan. - 1652-814X.
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- Andersson, Rickard, et al.
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The green state and the prospects of greening sovereignty
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rethinking the Green State : Environmental governance towards climate and sustainability transitions - Environmental governance towards climate and sustainability transitions. - 9781138792517 - 9781315761978 ; , s. 63-79
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- Bengtsson, Rikard, et al.
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Perspektiv på Världspolitik
- 2001
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Under de senaste tio åren har intresset för studier i internationell politik ökat kraftigt. Samtidigt har forskningsområdet breddats både avseende vad som studeras, exempelvis kapprustning, miljörörelser eller historisk utveckling, och hur det studeras. Perspektiv på världspolitik tar fasta på dessa förändringar och betonar ämnets bredd samt ger en nyanserad och djuplodande presentation av såväl de traditionella som de nya delarna. Bokens första del presenterar övergripande teoretiska perspektiv på världspolitik: statscentrerade perspektiv, historiska perspektiv och alternativa perspektiv, medan del två analyserar tre centrala världspolitiska frågekomplex: strävan efter säkerhet, politisk ekonomi och samarbetsprocesser. Som avslutning skisseras olika framtidsscenarier för världspolitikens utveckling. En utförlig och kommenterad litteraturessä kompletterar framställningen. Boken är främst skriven för grundläggande statsvetenskapligt orienterade studier i internationell politik vid universitet och högskolor. Den bör även vara av intresse inom det bredare samhällsvetenskapliga fältet, exempelvis inom sociologi, ekonomi och historia.
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- Bergman Rosamond, Annika, et al.
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Cosmopolitan militaries and dialogic peacekeeping : Danish and Swedish women soldiers in Afghanistan
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Feminist Journal of Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1461-6742 .- 1468-4470. ; 20:2, s. 172-187
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Feminist security studies (FFS) scholarship advocates the analysis of women’s war experiences and narratives to understand conflict and military intervention. Here we add a non-great power focus to FFS debates on the gendered discourses of military interventionism. We zoom in on Danish and Swedish women soldiers’ reflections on their involvement in the ISAF operation in Afghanistan. Their stories are deconstructed against the backdrop of their states’ adoption of a cosmopolitan-minded ethic on military obligation. Both states employed women soldiers in dialogic peacekeeping in Afghanistan to establish links with local women and to gather intelligence, tasks that were less frequently afforded to male soldiers. However, feminist FSS scholarship locates military intelligence gathering within racial, gendered and imperialist power relations that assign victimhood to local women. This feminist critique is pertinent, but the gendered and racial logics governing international operations vary across national contexts. While such gender binaries were present in Danish and Swedish military practice in Afghanistan, our article shows that dialogical peacekeeping offered an alternative to stereotypical constructions of women as victims and men as protectors. Dialogical peacekeeping helped to disrupt such gendering processes, giving women soldiers an opportunity to rethink their gender identities while instilling dialogical relations with local women.
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- Bergman Rosamond, Annika, et al.
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Cosmopolitanism and individual ethical reflection – the embodied experiences of Swedish veterans
- 2022
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Ingår i: Critical Military Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2333-7486 .- 2333-7494. ; 8:2, s. 159-178
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to enable a conversation between cosmopolitan thought, with focus on individual ethical experiences and reflections, and research on embodied military experiences. While we derive our ethical reasoning from cosmopolitanism, we concede that it lacks sensitivity to individuals’ other-regarding reflections and acts. Moreover, it does not sufficiently problematize the ways in which cosmopolitan deliberations are mediated in consideration of other desires and interests – what we define as mediated cosmopolitanism. To illustrate and substantiate our theoretical claims we draw on a selection of interviews and other material. We provide a two-step analysis, first by identifying the key themes in Sweden’s cosmopolitan military self-narrative, enabling us to determine the extent to which it intersects with individual veterans’ ethical reflections. Second, we conduct a discursive analysis of veterans’ embodied ethical reflections, that have emerged from their participation in international operations. We identify a cosmopolitan sense of obligation amongst Swedish veterans across our material, with such individuals articulating a wish to do good beyond borders. Notions of cosmopolitan responsibility, moreover, arise from veterans’ actual human encounters with civilians on the ground and through support for small-scale aid projects. However, veterans’ ethical reflections are rarely purely cosmopolitan, rather mediated through their wish to serve the nation, support fellow soldiers as a key part of the operation, acquiring new professional skills and the desire to seek new adventures. We argue that the concept of mediated cosmopolitanism captures such mixed ethical sentiments and embodied experiences. We conclude by summarizing our key arguments.
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- Bondesson, Sara, 1981-
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Vulnerability and Power : Social Justice Organizing in Rockaway, New York City, after Hurricane Sandy
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a study about disasters, vulnerability and power. With regards to social justice organizing a particular research problem guides the work, specifically that emancipatory projects are often initiated and steered by privileged actors who do not belong to the marginalized communities they wish to strengthen, yet the work is based on the belief that empowerment requires self-organizing from within. Through an ethnographic field study of social justice organizing in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in Rockaway, New York City, the thesis explores whether and how vulnerable groups were empowered within the Occupy Sandy network. It is a process study that traces outside activists attempts at empowering storm-affected residents over time, from the immediate relief phase to long-term organizing in the recovery phase. The activists aimed to put to practice three organizing ideals: inclusion, flexibility and horizontality, based on a belief that doing so would enhance empowerment. The analysis demonstrates that collaboration functioned better in the relief phase than in the long-term recovery phase. The same organizing ideals that seem to have created an empowering milieu for storm-affected residents in the relief phase became troublesome when relief turned to long-term recovery. The relief phase saw storm-affected people step up and take on leadership roles, whereas empowerment in the recovery phase was conditional on alignment with outside activists’ agendas. Internal tensions, conflicts and resistance from residents toward the outside organizers marked the recovery phase. It seems that length of collaborative projects is not the only factor for developing trust but so is complexity. The more complex the activities over which partners are to collaborate the less easy it is. Based on this we could further theorize that the more complex the work is the more challenging it is for privileged groups to give away control. The internal struggles of the organization partially explain the failures to influence an urban planning process that the organization attempted to impact, which connects the micro-processes with broader change processes toward transformation of vulnerability.
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- Bulkeley, Harriet, et al.
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Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions
- 2017
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Ingår i: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. - : Elsevier BV. - 1877-3435. ; 22, s. 13-17
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban Living Labs (ULL) are advanced as an explicit form of intervention delivering sustainability goals for cities. Established at the boundaries between research, innovation and policy, ULL are intended to design, demonstrate and learn about the effects of urban interventions in real time. While rapidly growing as an empirical phenomenon, our understanding of the nature and purpose of ULL is still evolving. While much of the existing literature draws attention to the aims and workings of ULL, there have to date been fewer critical accounts that seek to understand their purpose and implications. In this paper, we suggest that transition studies and the literature on urban governance offer important insights that can enable us to address this gap.
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- Bäckstrand, Karin, et al.
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Environmental politics after the deliberative turn
- 2010
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Ingår i: Environmental politics and deliberative democracy. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781849806411 - 9781848449541 ; , s. 217-234
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- Bäckstrand, Karin, et al.
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Organizational Challenges to Sustainable Development
- 1996
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Ingår i: Environmental Politics. - 0964-4016. ; 5:2, s. 209-230
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The concept of sustainable development at present permeates public discourse. An inter-organisational perspective can be used to analyse the processes through which this concept has found its way into policy and programme in four different settings: the United Nations, the European Communities, the government of Sweden and the city of Lund, Sweden. Although visible in treaties, laws and action programmes, core sustainable development practices - holistic, integrative and decentralised processes - guide neither policy creation nor implementation in any of the organisational settings. The prevalence of governmnetalism, standard operating procedures, the persistence of hierarchical solutions and tendencies to separate out discrete issues still create obstacles for effective policy implementation. The presence of similar problems in all organisational settings suggests a possibility of comparative insights to be gained by avoiding differentiation between international and domestic levels.
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- Bäckstrand, Karin, et al.
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The promise of new modes of environmental governance
- 2010
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Ingår i: Environmental politics and deliberative democracy. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781849806411 - 9781848449541 ; , s. 3-27
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- Di Lucia, Lorenzo, et al.
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The willing, the unwilling and the unable – explaining implementation of the EU Biofuels Directive
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of European Public Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-1763 .- 1466-4429. ; 17:4, s. 545-563
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we test current knowledge of policy implementation in multi-level governance systems and focus on the case of transport biofuels. The EU biofuel directive is a highly debated case with a disappointing implementation record. We probe a set of implementation hypotheses in a qualitative comparative analysis, offering a systematic comparison of ten member states between 2003 and 2006. The findings show that implementation of the EU biofuels policy is a complex phenomenon where combinations of causal conditions, and not single conditions, produces the outcome. We conclude that implementation is more likely when favourable conditions are present, in agreement with previous studies. Non-implementation, on the other hand, is explained by a dichotomy between the unable ¬ and the unwilling. The lack of willingness exposes to failure even the fittest national system.
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- Dymén, Christian, et al.
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Könade normers betydelse för en jämställd och hållbar transportpolitik och planering.
- 2021
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Ingår i: På väg mot hållbar omställning? Kunskap, makt och mening i nationell transportplanering.. - Boxholm : Linnefors förlag. - 9789188651129
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Jämställdhet har potential att bidra till ett hållbarare transportsystem av betydelse inte minst för klimatutmaningen. Ett transportsystem utan jämställdhetsperspektiv kan inte anses vara hållbart. Vår utgångspunkt är vidare att jämställdhet inte bara handlar om jämn könsfördelning utan också om att uppmärksamma könade normer vilka inrymmer värderingar och ideal baserade på livsvillkoren för kvinnor och män inom samhällets olika områden. I vår och andras forskning har det dock noterats att jämställdhetsperspektivet är påtagligt frånvarande i transportplanering – vilket är ett jämställdhetsproblem som dessutom negligerar en ansenlig klimatomställningspotential. Med ett helt jämställt transportsystem och samhälle skulle resandet vara mer lika mellan män och kvinnor. Det är dock viktigt att poängtera att den senaste forskningen visar att skillnader mellan kvinnor och män skulle kvarstå, även i ett samhälle där ekonomisk standard, förvärvsarbetande och hushållsarbete skulle vara jämställt. Kvarstående skillnader skulle då ha att göra med värderingar, attityder och normer. Oavsett handlar målet dock inte om att kvinnor och män ska göra lika, utan att människor oavsett kön ska ha lika möjligheter att forma sina egna liv liksom att forma samhället. Helt avgörande är det att både kvinnliga och manliga normer tillmäts samma betydelse och är lika styrande av transportplaneringen. nsekvenserna på vardagsresandet av olika åtgärdsförslag. Vår och andras forskning pekar på att begreppet jämställdhet kan användas som en metod för att nå hållbar utveckling. Med tanke på uppställda klimatmål och den tidspress som finns att genomföra klimatåtgärder, kan inte den energibesparingspotential som ett jämställt transportsystem medför negligeras. Det är en självklar demokratifråga att jämställt inkludera både kvinnor och män i utformningen av transportsystemet, men det är även en jämställdhetsfråga att inkludera hållbarhetsperspektivet på utformningen av transportsystemet. Den sammanvägda potentialen för jämställdhet att bidra till hållbarhet kräver både beteendeförändringar och normförändringar inom transportsektorn. Avseende åtgärder visar vår tidigare forskning att problemet inte handlar om frånvaro av strategier eller policys. De finns redan. Det handlar istället om hur de blir till praktiska beslut och handlingar, och om vilka metoder och perspektiv som används i görandet av planer och strategier. De tjänstepersoner och politiker som i sin vardag diskuterar och beslutar om trafik- och transportplanering behöver en större förståelse för varför och hur jämställdhet och hållbarhet är viktigt och hur frågor om jämställdhet är tätt kopplade till hållbara beslut inom sektorn. En sådan förståelse kan bidra till att förändra de normer som styr beslutsfattande mot ett mer jämställt och hållbart transportsystem.
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- Eduards, Maud, et al.
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Konflikt och säkerhet
- 2013
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Ingår i: Internationella Relationer - Könskritiska perspektiv. - 9789147097470 ; , s. 86-101
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Boken belyser vikten av könskritiska perspektiv på internationella relationer och ger exempel på skilda sätt att förstå och förklara den internationella ordningens betydelser för människors liv i olika delar av världen. Här ställs frågor om hur globaliseringen och konflikter samspelar med föreställningar om manligt och kvinnligt. Författarna analyserar och diskuterar könskodade maktstrukturer och jämlik resursfördelning - både lokalt och globalt. Med utgångspunkt i IR-fältets klassiska temaindelningar lyfter artiklarna fram nya perspektiv och problem, vilket vidgar och fördjupar förståelsen av fältet, såväl vetenskapligt som politiskt.
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- Eduards, Maud, 1944-, et al.
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Konflikt och säkerhet
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: <em></em>Internationella relationer. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147097470 ; , s. 86-101
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- Eneqvist, Erica, 1982-
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Experimental Governance : Capacity and legitimacy in local governments
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Contemporary planning and governance of cities involves practices of experiments and trials in urban experiments, collaborative platforms, and urban development projects with high ambitions for sustainability and innovative solutions. These practices of experimental governance can be seen as new policy instruments that include actors from all sectors of society in collective problem-solving. The introduction of experimental governance establishes a new logic of public administration that results in multiple opportunities and challenges. Previous research has emphasised the importance of organisational development beyond a focus on single experimental projects and institutional designs to support experimentation. This thesis aims to examine the municipalities’ organisational capacity for experimental governance and the opportunities to ensure legitimacy.The thesis involves a case study of the City of Stockholm and its innovative practices in general and experimental governance practices in particular. The focus is on the municipal organisation and how it has developed over the past decade, rather than single experiments, collaborations, and projects. Using a qualitative research approach, empirical data was collected by shadowing City of Stockholm staff members, while also conducting semi-structured interviews, participatory observations, and document studies. The thesis comprises four research articles: three using the City of Stockholm as an empirical case of a municipality engaged in experimental governance, and one that develops theoretical insights using examples from Stockholm. The first article provides a discussion of municipal innovation approaches and their influence of institutional logics. The second article is about municipal functions related to experiments, and how these functions challenge the local government. The third article examines the work of experiments and partnerships in policy and practice from a legitimacy perspective. The fourth article explores the institutional capacity for translating innovation actions from high-profile urban development projects into regular processes of the municipality.The results provide new knowledge about public actors and urban experimentation, while also providing practical insights that are relevant to stakeholders who engage in urban experiments. Specifically, the thesis reveals the challenges that municipalities face in embracing experiments while also ensuring and developing procedures for legitimacy. It also highlights the tensions of introducing new logics and roles for public authorities in a changing governance environment. The findings point towards the need for a more nuanced understanding of practices of experimental governance, and the development of permanent organisational structures and cultures to support and steer these practices. There is also a need for organisational procedures to ensure legitimacy, related to both input in terms of transparency, accountability and equality, and output in terms of results and effectiveness, with a capacity to implement the results. By meeting these needs, municipalities can harness the opportunities of experimental governance to serve the public good.
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Environmental politics and deliberative democracy. : examining the promise of new modes of environmental governance
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This important new book provides an excellent critical evaluation of new modes of governance in environmental and sustainability policy. The multidisciplinary team of contributors combine fresh insights from all levels of governance all around a carefully crafted conceptual framework to advance our understanding of the effectiveness and legitimacy of new types of steering, including networks, public private partnerships, and multi-stakeholder dialogues. This is a crucial contribution to the field. Frank Biermann, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Can new modes of governance, such as public private partnerships, stakeholder consultations and networks, promote effective environmental policy performance as well as increased deliberative and participatory quality? This book argues that in academic inquiry and policy practice there has been a deliberative turn, manifested in a revitalized interest in deliberative democracy coupled with calls for novel forms of public private governance. By linking theory and practice, the contributors critically examine the legitimacy and effectiveness of new modes of governance, using a range of case studies on climate, forestry, water and food safety policies from local to global levels. Environmental Politics and Deliberative Democracy will appeal to scholars, both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as researchers of environmental politics, international relations, environmental studies and political science. It will also interest practitioners involved in the actual design and implementation of new governance modes in areas of sustainable development, food safety, forestry and climate change.
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Gender, Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialised States
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book explores how climate institutions in industrialized countries work to further the recognition of social differences and integrate this understanding in climate policy making.With contributions from a range of expert scholars in the field, this volume investigates policy-making in climate institutions from the perspective of power as it relates to gender. It also considers other intersecting social factors at different levels of governance, from the global to the local level and extending into climate-relevant sectors. The authors argue that a focus on climate institutions is important since they not only develop strategies and policies, they also (re)produce power relations, promote specific norms and values, and distribute resources. The chapters throughout draw on examples from various institutions including national ministries, transport and waste management authorities, and local authorities, as well as the European Union and the UNFCCC regime. Overall, this book demonstrates how feminist institutionalist theory and intersectionality approaches can contribute to an increased understanding of power relations and social differences in climate policy-making and in climate-relevant sectors in industrialized states. In doing so, it highlights the challenges of path dependencies, but also reveals opportunities for advancing gender equality, equity, and social justice.Gender, Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialized States will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate politics, international relations, gender studies and policy studies.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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Intervjustudie om förutsättningar för nollutsläpp i den svenska basindustrin
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna rapport presenteras resultaten av den intervjustudie och efterföljande fokusgruppsdiskussion som vi genomfört inom ramen för forskningsprojektet Green Industrial Transitions (GIST, www.gist2050.com). Forskningsprojektets huvudsyfte är att studera förutsättningarna för en omställning till nollutsläpp av koldioxid inom den svenska basindustrin samt analysera strategier, åtgärder och styrmedel som kan bidra till grön industriell omvandling. Under hösten 2016 genomfördes 30 semistrukturerade intervjuer med personer aktiva inom industri, politik, myndigheter och intresseorganisationer, som valdes ut för att representera hela sektorn på ett rättvisande sätt. Frågorna i intervjustudien handlade om klimatstyrning av basindustrin idag, möjligheter till en omställning till nollutsläpp och hur styrningen behöver utvecklas.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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The green state and industrial decarbonisation
- 2019
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Ingår i: Environmental Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-4016 .- 1743-8934. ; 28:5, s. 909-928
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2018 The Author(s). Published with license by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group The large share of carbon emitted by energy-intensive industries in the extraction and processing of basic materials must be limited to decarbonise society and the economy. Ways in which the state can govern industrial decarbonisation and contributes to green state theory are explored by addressing a largely ignored issue: the green state’s industrial relations and its role in industrial governance. With insights from a Swedish case study, the tension between the state’s economic imperative and ecological concerns in greening industry are shown to persist. However, as the energy-intensive industry’s previously privileged position in the economy is weakening, industry is opened to decarbonisation strategies. While the case exposes a number of governance challenges, it also suggests potential areas where the state can pursue decarbonisation in energy-intensive industry and points the way to an active role of the green state in governing industrial decarbonisation and greening industry.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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Towards a decarbonized green state? The politics of low-carbon governance in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rethinking the Green State: Environmental Governance towards Climate and Sustainability Transitions. - 9781138792517 ; Routledge Studies in Sustainability, s. 156-173
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter we explore how a decarbonized green state might develop. Climate governance provides venues towards decarbonization and for greening the state by steering and enabling transformative social change. We study low-carbon transitions in Sweden in a set of policy sectors for their potential to reduce carbon emissions, spur innovation and enter policy paths towards decarbonization. Sweden has been successful in supporting transitions in the energy sector but decarbonization is not institutionalized in the transport and industry sectors. While lacking a strategic focus on long-term decarbonization climate policy is dominated by the market-liberal norm of cost-efficiency.
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- Hiselius, Lena Winslott, et al.
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Gender Representation and Leadership in Local Transport Decision-Making Positions
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). - 2071-1050. ; 15:14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to analyse and further capture nuances of gender representation in local political decision-making bodies, focusing on implications for transport policy. Since gender is highly relevant for both attitudes towards transport policy as well as political votes, data on the gender and political colour of executives (members of presidiums) of transport-related committees, councils, and boards is analysed. The study is aimed at the local level, since municipal transport policy decisions include areas with clear differences between masculinity and femininity norms. The mapping of representation reveals, in line with other studies, that women are underrepresented in the most leading position (as chairperson of the City Board 31-37%), and that presidiums of transport-related committees, especially, are highly dominated by men (72-74%) with no clear positive trend in female representation identified over the studied years. The result suggests that transport-related decisions are disproportionally shaped by men as well as masculine norms, with implications for the transition towards transport sustainability.
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- Hiselius, Lena Winslott, et al.
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Investigating the Link between Transport Sustainability and the Representation of Women in Swedish Local Committees
- 2019
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 11:17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There are large discrepancies in the transport sector along gender lines in travel patterns and means of transportation used, but also in attitudes and norms among citizens, planners and decision-makers, with women generally more positive towards measures involving the lowering CO2 emissions. At the same time, the number of women involved in transport-related decisions is low. This is a problem for gender equality but possibly also for sustainability. A careful review of previous studies indicated a lack of analyses on the subject based on quantitative data at the local level. We investigated a possible link between women’s presence in local policymaking and more sustainable transport policies, and whether it is possible to capture such an effect. The main contribution of this paper is a methodological approach in which, besides generating unique data on representation in municipalities (confirming men’s dominance, specifically in transport policymaking), possibilities for quantitatively measuring gender and the level of sustainability in transport planning are discussed and tested. Challenges in collecting relevant data and analyzing possible covariances in the data set are discussed and presented as well as suggestions for further investigations into the possible link between gender and sustainable transport performance.
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- Jerneck, Anne, et al.
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Structuring Sustainability Science
- 2011
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Ingår i: Sustainability Science. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1862-4057 .- 1862-4065. ; 6:1, s. 69-82
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is urgent in science and society to address climate change and other sustainability challenges such as biodiversity loss, deforestation, depletion of marine fish stocks, global ill-health, land degradation, land use change and water scarcity. Sustainability science (SS) is an attempt to bridge the natural and social sciences for seeking creative solutions to these complex challenges. In this article, we propose a research agenda that advances the methodological and theoretical understanding of what SS can be, how it can be pursued and what it can contribute. The key focus is on knowledge structuring. For that purpose, we designed a generic research platform organised as a three-dimensional matrix comprising three components: core themes (scientific understanding, sustainability goals, sustainability pathways); cross-cutting critical and problem- solving approaches; and any combination of the sustainability challenges above. As an example, we insert four sustainability challenges into the matrix (biodiversity loss, climate change, land use changes, water scarcity). Based on the matrix with the four challenges, we discuss three issues for advancing theory and methodology in SS: how new synergies across natural and social sciences can be created; how integrated theories for understanding and responding to complex sustainability issues can be developed; and how theories and concepts in economics, gender studies, geography, political science and sociology can be applied in SS. The generic research platform serves to structure and create new knowledge in SS and is a tool for exploring any set of sustainability challenges. The combined critical and problem- solving approach is essential.
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- Jönsson, Kristina, et al.
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Fronesis: anställningsordning och jämställdhetsintegrering
- 2012
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Ingår i: AKKA AKademiska Kollegors Ansvar. Ledarutvecklingsprogram för kvinnor och män vid Lunds universitet 2010-2011. Erfarenheter av ett genusintegrerat ledarskapsprogram. - 9789163703522 ; , s. 33-46
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- Kaijser, Anna
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Who is Marching for Pachamama? : An Intersectional Analysis of Environmental Struggles in Bolivia under the Government of Evo Morales
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Evo Morales and the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) took office in Bolivia in 2006, riding on the wave of fierce popular protests against previous, neoliberal regimes. Morales was depicted as the country’s first indigenous president. His government promised a radical transformation of national politics and rebranded Bolivia as a “plurinational state”. Under MAS, indigenous subjectivity has moved from a marginalized position to center stage, and become a key condition for political legitimacy.This development is reflected in environmental politics. In international forums, the Bolivian government has claimed to represent a green indigenous alternative, a “culture of life”, as opposed to a Western, capitalist “culture of death”. However, on home ground, critics have accused MAS of coopting aspects of indigenous identity for its own interests and not applying its green agenda within the national borders. The national economy is dependent on intense extraction and export of natural resources, a trend which has not diminished under Morales. Thus, the first Bolivian government to frame itself as indigenous now stands behind initiatives for resource extraction and infrastructural expansion. This raises questions about whose rights are privileged when different actors express conflicting claims based on indigeneity.In this thesis, two salient themes are explored: MAS’ positioning in international climate change negotiations, and the conflict around the plans to construct a highway across the TIPNIS national park and indigenous territory. Drawing on poststructural and postcolonial feminist theory, I analyze intersecting processes of power in Bolivian environmental struggles by unwrapping two figurations: the endangered glacier and the ecological indigenous. These have become emblematic, and are mobilized by various actors for different purposes. Situating these figurations in national and international discourses, I show how they may shift in meaning and both reinforce and challenge relations of power. The research material was generated through ethnographic fieldwork and collection of written texts. Through this study of contemporary Bolivia, I shed light on how power dynamics play out in the framing of environmental problems and their solutions; questions which should be central to research on environmental issues in all contexts.
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- Karlson, Marianne, et al.
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Understanding institutional enablers and barriers to thedissemination of MaaS: A tentative framework
- 2017
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Ingår i: ICoMaaS 2017 Proceedings.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- With a continued global urbanisation trend and increasing demand for transportation with consequences interms of, for example, congestion, emissions, and noise, urban mobility is a major challenge for the future.Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) has been argued as part of the solution by contributing to reducing the use ofprivate cars and increasing the use of public transport and ride sharing services: “MaaS has the potentialto fundamentally change the behaviour of people in and beyond cities, hence it is regarded as the biggestparadigm change in transport since affordable cars came into the market” (maas-alliance.eu). However,even though a number of initiatives have been taken, including pilots which have shown positive outcomes(see e.g., Karlsson et al., 2016), the implementation of MaaS has been slow.Different sources refer to different challenges. The purpose of the project ‘Institutional Frameworks forIntegrated Mobility Services in Future Cities’ (IRIMS) is to determine how, and to what extent, existinginstitutional factors affect the further development of MaaS. The project aims to provide suggestions for howinstitutions can be modified to enable the implementation of MaaS to contribute to sustainable mobility. Thispaper presents part of the work: a tentative framework, intended to support the analysis of the institutionalfactors that facilitate or create barriers to the further development and dissemination of MaaS (see alsoMukhtar-Landgren et al., 2016).
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- Karlsson, Marianne, 1956, et al.
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Development and implementation of Mobility-as-a-Service : A qualitative study of barriers and enabling factors
- 2020
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Ingår i: Transportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice. - : Elsevier BV. - 0965-8564 .- 1879-2375. ; 131, s. 283-295
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) has been argued as part of the solution to prevalent transport problems. However, progress from pilots to large-scale implementation has hitherto been slow. The aim of the research reported in this paper was to empirically and in-depth investigate how, and to what extent, different factors affect the development and implementation of MaaS. A framework was developed, with a basis in institutional theory and the postulation that formal as well informal factors on different analytical levels (macro, meso and micro) must be considered. The research was organised as a multiple case study in Finland and Sweden and a qualitative approach was chosen for data collection and analysis. A number of factors with a claimed impact on the development and implementation of MaaS was revealed. At the macro level, these factors included legislation concerning transport, innovation and public administration, and the presence (or not) of a shared vision for MaaS. At the meso level, (the lack of) appropriate business models, cultures of collaboration, and assumed roles and responsibilities within the MaaS ecosystem were identified as significant factors. At the micro level, people’s attitudes and habits were recognised as important factors to be considered. However, how the ‘S’ in MaaS fits (or not) the transport needs of the individual/household appears to play a more important role in adoption or rejection of MaaS than what has often been acknowledged in previous papers on MaaS. The findings presented in this paper provide several implications for public and private sector actors. Law-making authorities can facilitate MaaS developments by adjusting relevant regulations and policies such as transport-related subsidies, taxation policies and the definition of public transport. Regional and local authorities could additionally contribute to creating conducive conditions for MaaS by, for example, planning urban designs and transport infrastructures to support service-based travelling. Moreover, private actors have key roles to play in future MaaS developments, as both public and private transport services are needed if MaaS is to become a viable alternative to privately owned cars. Thus, the advance of MaaS business models that benefit all involved actors is vital for the prosperity of the emerging MaaS ecosystem.
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- Khan, Jamil, et al.
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The role of institutional innovations in the transition to low-carbon futures
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Deep cuts in carbon emissions to avoid dangerous climatic change will require fundamental transformations of the energy and transport systems. This is an enormous challenge for society and the political system. In order to tackle this challenge, we argue that it will be necessary to develop new institutions and institutional practices that address and give priority to long-term climate policy objectives. In this paper we focus on three institutional innovations in the field of climate governance and energy system transformations that are guided by such visions. Institutional reforms at the national level in three arguably progressive cases (the Netherlands, the UK and Sweden) are studied concerning their relevance for governing transitions towards low-carbon societies. The study asks: What views on how to bring about low-carbon transitions guide the activities of the institution? What is the role of new institutions in processes of change and what institutional practices have developed so far? The cases provide examples of ways to enhance reflexivity and how a new political agenda for low-carbon futures and strategies for instigating processes of change can be institutionalized. However, when contrasted against contemporary green political thought, they seem to be bound by liberal conceptions of greening the welfare state rather than post-liberal ecologist ideals on radical green transformations. Our analysis also shows that in practice, the institutions examined tend to favor technological transitions over behavioral change and to be reliant on hierarchical authority and traditional patterns of steering to a greater extent than intended.
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- Klintman, Mikael, et al.
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“Challenges to Legitimacy in Food Safety Governance? The Case of the European Food Safety Authority”
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of European Integration. - 0703-6337. ; 32:3, s. 309-327
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ‘old’ forms of governance have been criticised for being neither sufficiently democratic nor effective. The popularity of ‘new’ modes of governance includes the embracing of values – integral to democratic processes – such as legitimacy, public accountability and trust. By relating parts of this ‘old-vs.-new’ distinction to March & Olsen’s dichotomy of aggregative vs. integrative political processes, the aim of this paper is to find patterns for how such processes are combined in European food safety governance. The paper focuses on the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). What forms of participation can be found in ‘new’ food safety governance? How are these forms of participation related to the aims of increasing the legitimacy? The article discusses challenges involved in EFSA’s mixing of integrative goals and the organisation’s view of food safety politics, in which aggregative policy processes are conceived as a rough ‘natural state’ which should be tamed.
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- Koch, Max, et al.
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Green States in Europe: A Comparative View
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rethinking the Green State - Environmental Governance Towards Climate and Sustainability Transitions. - 9781138792517 ; , s. 83-103
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- Kronsell, Annica, et al.
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A 'sustainable' impact on the EU? An analysis of the making of the Fifth Environmental Action Programme
- 2000
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Ingår i: The emergence of ecological modernisation : integrating the environment and the economy. - : Routledge. - 0415141737 ; , s. 87-105
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter begins with the assumption that political organisations are stable institutions which contain biases to benefit certain issues and actors in society. The European Union’s Fifth Environmental Action Programme was finally adopted by the Council in February of 1993. The programme is entitled Toward Sustainability and will guide the European Union’s environmental legislation into the next century. Since the Fifth Environmental Action Programme was heavily influenced by the Dutch National Environmental Plan it was also natural that the key participants in the networks which developed were Dutch. The temporal sorting model was developed as a theory about decision-making. Agenda setting is a matter of making a decision about which issues are important. The chapter considers the political climate in which the streams flow. Since social movements are dispersed in society they do not have the same type of political impact as organised political forces.
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- Kronsell, Annica, et al.
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Achieving Climate Objectives in Transport Policy by Including Women and Challenging Gender Norms – the Swedish case
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1556-8334 .- 1556-8318. ; 10:8, s. 703-711
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores whether women can become the change agents for a sustainable transport sector and how such a change can be accomplished through transport policy. Based on the Swedish case, women still on average have transportation behaviour with lower environmental impact than men have; women also tend to have stronger preferences for improving sustainability in the sector. The results imply that there are interesting behaviour and attitude characteristics expressed by women that ought to be recognised and applied e.g. through contesting prevailing norms and methods, in order to achieve sustainability goals for the sector. Altogether this suggests that women, beyond democracy reasons, should become more active as change agents to challenge the dominant male norms. Policy implications of these findings include measures to improve gender equal participation would e.g. make it possible to take advantage of these differences. Putting more emphasis on the relationships between travel patterns, sustainability and gendering on all levels in transportation planning as a measure for improved sustainability. Implementing new ways of framing the problems to be solved, challenging existing norms working against gender equity and raising consciousness of sustainability issues. Using gender mainstreaming to monitor policy impacts on different groups of men and women. However, today there is a lack of incentives to apply these tools. Since there is a tremendous complexity in the relationships on all levels, more research is needed together with improved dissemination of knowledge for the competence to increase within the transport sector.
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- Kronsell, Annica, 1959, et al.
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Actor relations in climate policymaking: Governing decarbonisation in a corporatist green state
- 2019
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Ingår i: Environmental Policy and Governance. - : Wiley. - 1756-932X .- 1756-9338. ; 29:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2019 The Authors. Environmental Policy and Governance published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd This article focuses on the role of actor relations in advancing climate policymaking and argues that attempts to understand decisions to decarbonise in a green state should explore the institutional conditions for policymaking. The article explores the climate policy model in Sweden in terms of the societal actors included in the policy process, the nature of this inclusion, and its relevance for the prospects of decarbonisation. It uses three perspectives in the analysis: corporatism, sustainable transition studies, and ecological democracy. The findings largely support existing research that states characterised by corporatist policymaking are suited for environmental governance and for climate policymaking. However, as a model of governance of actor relations, the Swedish climate policymaking model has both its merits and demerits. Although it has potential to reach decarbonisation objectives, it does this in the context of including mainly established economic interests, that is, incumbents. This stands in contrast with what is argued in sustainable transition studies that incumbents obstruct change, in the Swedish case they are viewed as potential change agents. Finally, although the character of the actor relations is deliberative, it is a top–down exclusive kind of deliberation that remains far from ideals of ecological democracy.
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- Kronsell, Annica, et al.
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An Intersectional Exploration of Climate Institutions
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780197515068 - 9780197515037 ; , s. 1-21
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Governing bodies at different levels are authoritative institutions and civil servants/policy-makers are key actors in realizing global and national climate objectives. They have largely failed to create effective, legitimate, democratic, and just policies. This is problematic in light of research that views the climate transition as a social and behavioral concern and stresses the importance of paying attention to social effects in policy-making. The authors explore the Swedish climate institutions: the Environmental Protection Agency, the Traffic Administration, the Energy Agency, and the Innovation Agency. They analyzed key policy documents and 31 interviews questions on how social issues are understood and dealt with in institutional practices. The authors confirmed that emphasis has been on technological innovations and economic incentives. Although policy-makers recognize the relevance of social concerns, efforts to date seem insufficient. The main challenge is how to incorporate such concerns when action is restricted by institutional path dependencies. The authors’ approach starts in feminist institutionalism and adds intersectionality in an analytical lens that helps explore how power relations are embedded within climate institutions and can explain their effects. Insights are that power relations are context-specific and situated in a certain place and time. The authors’ method of how to pursue contextually sensitive and situated analyses of complex intersections of power can be used across contexts in further comparative studies.
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