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- Abrahamsson, Lena, et al.
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How to Get a Social Licence to Mine
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of the paper is to discuss socially sustainable development in the mining industry and the communities surrounding the mines. The discussions are based on results from a prestudy and literature review on mining and sustainable development conducted during 2013–2014 at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. ‘A social licence to mine’ is important for the mining industry, but the social dimension is a relatively underdeveloped dimension when it comes to sustainable development in general and the mining industry in particular, one reason probably being the lack of effective methods for capturing social impacts. The mining industry and the surrounding communities face many challenges that provide both possibilities and obstacles to socially sustainable development; eg aspects such as gender, work conditions and cultural aspects. For example, a strong mining workplace culture and community identity can createstrong cohesion but also lead to excluding certain groups, rejecting new ideas and reinforcing obsolete values. Other challenges include recruitment, as well as health and safety in relation to an increased use of fly-in-fly-out, contractors and automation of mining. Some challenges relate to the effects of fluctuations in the mining market. There is a lack of research that links attitudes, policies and activities within companies to their impact on the wider community, and vice versa. Future research should also include the development of methods and indicators for social sustainability relevant for mining – in other words: how do mining companies get ‘a social licence to mine’?
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- Abrahamsson, Lena, et al.
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Mining and Sustainable Development : Gender, Diversity and Work Conditions in Mining
- 2014
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Swedish mining companies and surrounding mining communities face many challenges when it comes to social sustainable development. For example, a strong mining workplace culture and community identity can create both strong cohesion but also lead to exclusion of certain groups, rejection of new ideas and reinforce traditional, masculine values. Other challenges include recruitment, as well as health and safety in relation to an increased use of contractors and automation of mining. The social dimension is relatively underdeveloped in studies of sustainable development in general and the mining industry in particular. This report reviews research on social sustainable development and mining with a special focus on (1) diversity of lifestyles, (2) gender, and (3) work conditions. Swedish and international research is reviewed and knowledge gaps are identified. All three areas of research can be regarded as relatively mature and they give important contributions to ourunderstanding of social sustainable development in relation to the mining sector even if they not always explicitly refer to it as such. There is a lack of research that links attitudes, policies and activities within companies to their impact on the wider society, and vice versa. Future research should also include the development of methods and indicators for social sustainability relevant for mining.
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- Abrahamsson, Lena, et al.
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Project: Mining and sustainable development - gender, diversity and work condition
- 2014
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Detta är ett delprojekt som handlar om den sociala dimensionen av hållbar utveckling (och då specifikt ”gender”, ”diversity” och ”work conditions”). Huvudprojektet "Mining and sustainable development" är en förstudie för att utveckla ett större forskningsprogram om hållbar utveckling i gruvindustrin. Förstudien gick under 2014 med finansiering från bl.a. LKAB. Patrik Söderholm (nationalekonomi) var projektledare. I arbetsgruppen ingick även Björn Öhlander, Frauke Ecke, Anders Widerlund, Roine Wiklund, Petter Hojem mfl.
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- Eliasson, Benitha, et al.
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Vägen från beroende – rak eller krokig? : uppföljning av mångbesökare inom missbruks- och beroendevård
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den här slutrapporten redovisar den uppföljning av Mångbesökareinom missbruks- och beroendevård som gjorts i Norrbotten mellanseptember 2011 och december 2013. Uppföljningen har genomförtsgemensamt av Kommunförbundet, FoU Norrbotten och Norrbottensläns landsting, i samarbete med Kriminalvården/Frivården.I uppföljningen analyseras tretton mångbesökares nyttjande av sjukvårdens,socialtjänstens samt Kriminalvårdens/Frivårdens resurserunder ett år. Syftet med uppföljningen är tredelat. För det första ärsyftet att kartlägga och följa upp mångbesökares nyttjande av olikatyper av vård- och stödinsatser, vilket sker genom en journal- och aktgranskning.I kartläggningen ingår även en kostnadsberäkning. För detandra är syftet att undersöka mångbesökares uppfattning om och upplevelseav vården och stödet samt om det bemötande som de har fåttfrån de olika organisationerna. Här utgör intervjuer den huvudsakligainsamlingsmetoden. För det tredje är syftet att identifiera och arbetamed de systembrister som framkommer i uppföljningen. En viktig deli arbetet med systembrister är de fokusgrupper vi träffat. Deras erfarenheterutgör en viktig del i uppföljningens resultat.Till mångbesökare räknas personer med missbruk eller beroende somunder en tolv månaders period har besökt landstingets akutsjukvård(den somatiska eller psykiatriska) minst fyra gånger eller som har vårdatsminst fyra gånger på en av landstingets vårdavdelningar.Urvalet av mångbesökare gjordes vid Länsgemensam psykiatri ochMoB-enheten. Det innebar att drygt hälften av mångbesökarna hadebåde missbruk eller beroende och psykiatrisk problematik (samsjuklighet).I den här rapporten redovisas dessa mångbesökares nyttjandeav vård- och stödresurser, till exempel sluten- och öppenvård frånsjukvården, insatser från socialtjänsten och Kriminalvården/Frivården.Dessutom redovisas kostnader för dessa insatser.Det centrala i analysen utgör fallstudierna som ger en helhetsbild avindividernas vård och stöd, samt deras upplevelser under ett år. Sexfallstudier presenteras, med fyra män och två kvinnor i olika åldrarmellan 20-60 år. Olika typer av missbruk (drog- och alkoholmissbruk,blandmissbruk, missbruk av läkemedel) illustreras. Dessa personerföljs under ett års tid via medicinska journaler, socialtjänstens akter,Kriminalvårdens/Frivårdens handlingar samt intervjuer. Två fallstudiergjordes på mångbesökare som hade fått särskilda former av stöd,Case managers samt substitutionsbehandlingen LABO. För att än merlyfta fram brukarperspektivet gjordes en extra fallstudie där intervjumaterialettilläts ha tyngdpunkten på mångbesökares och närståendesupplevelse av vården och stödet. Samtliga fallstudier har illustreratsmed ett flödesschema och kompletterats med en kostnadsanalys.
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- Johansson, Tim, et al.
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Revealing Social Values by 3D City Visualization in City Transformations
- 2016
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 8:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social sustainability is a widely used concept in urban planning research and practice. However, knowledge of spatial distributions of social values and aspects of social sustainability is required. Visualization of these distributions is also highly valuable, but challenging, and rarely attempted in sparsely populated urban environments in rural areas. This article presents a method that highlights social values in spatial models through 3D visualization, describes the methodology to generate the models, and discusses potential applications. The models were created using survey, building, infrastructure and demographic data for Gällivare, Sweden, a small city facing major transformation due to mining subsidence. It provides an example of how 3D models of important social sustainability indices can be designed to display citizens’ attitudes regarding their financial status, the built environment, social inclusion and welfare services. The models helped identify spatial variations in perceptions of the built environment that correlate (inter alia) with closeness to certain locations, gender and distances to public buildings. Potential uses of the model for supporting efforts by practitioners, researchers and citizens to visualize and understand social values in similar urban environments are discussed, together with ethical issues (particularly regarding degrees of anonymity) concerning its wider use for inclusive planning.
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- Lindberg, Malin, Professor, 1978-, et al.
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Co-Creative Place Innovation in an Arctic Town
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Place Management and Development. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1753-8335 .- 1753-8343. ; 13:4, s. 447-463
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of the study is to shed light on co-creative approaches for place innovation in an Arctic town, based on the relocation of Kiruna’s city center in northern Sweden. Three cases of co-creative innovation processes in Kiruna are investigated and compared: an R&D project about local perceptions and visions of attractive urban environments, an R&D project about norm-creative design principles for inclusive and attractive urban design, and an R&D project about cross-industrial synergies for city center attractiveness.Design/methodology/approach – The study’s research design encompasses a comparative and participatory approach. The comparative approach implies investigation and comparison of three cases of co-creative innovation processes in Kiruna. The participatory approach implies joint development of new knowledge by researchers and local actors. The data consists of participatory observations of workshops and qualitative interviews with local actors.Findings – The study reveals that the studied processes have harnessed the city center relocation as an opportunity to make Kiruna more attractive to residents and visitors, by employing the co-creative approaches of Living Lab, Now-Wow-How and Norm-creative design. These approaches have enabled experts and local actors to jointly identify excluding patterns and norms in the relocation process, and to envision inclusive and attractive (re-)configurations and (re-)conceptualizations of the future Kiruna.Research implications – The results add to the academic strand of inclusive urban transformation, by providing insights into co-creative approaches for re-imagining an Arctic town in times of industrial and social change. New insights are provided regarding how the geographical, industrial and cultural identity of an Arctic town can be harnessed to envision new configuration, content and communication that is attractive and accessible for a diversity of residents and visitors. Practical implications – The results highlight the potential to harness Arctic and rural characteristics in the promotion of urban attractiveness and public wellbeing, especially when combined with co-creative identification and transformation of excluding norms and patterns.Originality/value – The results provide new insights into how co-creative approaches may facilitate innovative and inclusive renewal of towns and cities in the Arctic and beyond.
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- López, Gloria-Karin, et al.
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European Social Enterprise Monitor : En delrapport från Sverige
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A number of reports and surveys have recently been presented based on the definition and conditions for social enterprises. The European Social Enterprise Monitor (ESEM) is a survey that in many ways builds on other surveys carried out and makes an attempt to collect statistics for a solid information base that can be used as a starting point for dialogue and decision-making in the field. ESEM also gives us the opportunity to compare conditions, challenges and opportunities for social entrepreneurs in Sweden with other European countries and follow developments over time…
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- Poelzer, Gregory, et al.
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Licensing acceptance in a mineral-rich welfare state: Critical reflections on the social license to operate in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: The Extractive Industries and Society. - : Elsevier. - 2214-790X .- 2214-7918. ; 7:3, s. 1096-1107
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Social License to Operate (SLO) continues to influence industry, government, and academia on issues of resource development, particularly mining. But it risks becoming a term that includes all types of company activity aimed at gaining public support. To delimit the term, we look at the malleability of the SLO in a highly-regulated context: Sweden. Comparing the academic literature on the SLO at the global level and in the Swedish context, we assess the usefulness of the term across three themes: institutions, corporate-community engagement, and sustainability. Through this review, we argue that the SLO is best understood as a tool and an indicator. A tool to address significant problems and issues and an indicator of deficiencies in the existing institutional framework
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- Segerstedt, Eugenia, et al.
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Construction of place to stay or leave
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Kiruna is an established mining community with and urban center in the northernmost region of Sweden. The town undergoes major urban transformation due to mining related ground subsidence. This paper presents a statistical model for analysing construction of place in Kiruna through social openness, attitudes towards Kiruna as a place to live for different generations, individual risk analysis and attitudes towards moving from the local community or staying. The analysis is based on a survey on quality of life, leisure, risk analysis, city transformations and views on welfare services conducted in Kiruna 2011 and 2016. Results show that the social differentiation of 2011 has flattened during the transformation influencing all the groups. The younger generations were more prone to consider leaving, but the generational differences for men over 35 in that regard were smaller to insignificant. The effect of social bonds on understanding of Kiruna as attractive became stronger. Questions arise on social class patterns that changed over time towards a less differentiated context.
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- Segerstedt, Eugenia, 1983-, et al.
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Diversity of livelihoods and social sustainability in established mining communities
- 2019
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Ingår i: The Extractive Industries and Society. - : Elsevier. - 2214-790X .- 2214-7918. ; 6:2, s. 610-619
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The challenges for any community that seeks to maintain a healthy and thriving social life around an operating mine have been considered at some length in research, but the picture is still far from complete. In order to pinpoint some of the gaps in research, the literature on social sustainability as applied to established mining communities in developed countries is here reviewed, and the general understanding of the social sustainability of such communities is touched on. Diversity of livelihoods is explored as an analytical lens which can be used to approach social sustainability challenges without essentializing the preferences of social groups. Extensive literature searches with keywords such as mining, work, gender, organization, social, sustainability, community, town, area, cohesion and inclusion were conducted. The results of our review show a research gap between studies of mining companies and studies of wider mining communities. We conclude that considering diversity of livelihoods can be a productive analytical tool when approaching aspects of social sustainability such as social cohesion and inclusion, gender equality, managed migration, demographics, and housing infrastructure. Continued research is recommended to further bridge the gap between studies of mining companies and studies of mining communities from the perspective of social sustainability.
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- Segerstedt, Eugenia, et al.
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Producing space in Living Labs : Reflexive analysis in the contexts of Kiruna and Gällivare
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Living labs are popular in urban design research, but have been mostly used in contexts of big cities. Here we describe living labs conducted in mining, Kiruna and Gällivare, undergoing major urban transformations due to the mining activities causing ground deformations. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how space is produced in the discussions attractiveness and social sustainability in the Living labs in relation to the towns and the urban transformations. Discussions on attractiveness and social sustainability are analyzed in terms of Lefebvrian dimensions (physical, mental, and social space) in theory of productions of space. Results show how construction of place combines time and space, as production of space becomes production of shared identity.
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- Segerstedt, Eugenia
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Small town, big move : Constructions of place in transiting mining communities
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The dissertation accounts for construction of place in mining communities as they undergo a major urban transformation. In the 2010s, urban centres in the northern Sweden mining communities of Gällivare and Kiruna entered a new execution phase of a large-scale transformation precipitated by ground subsidence caused by mining activities, a transformation that continues. The ambition to make the transition socially sustainable and contribute to more attractive communities resulted in research projects focused on these aspects.The aim of this dissertation is to describe and analyse how place is constructed in established mining communities in transition through the following research questions: How is place constructed in dialogues on social sustainability and attractiveness? How do people of different age groups, professions and gender construct place in established mining communities in transition? What are the possibilities and limitations of different research methods in relation to including residents’ perspectives in the transformation process? The overall theoretical standpoint of this dissertation is that place is socially constructed: place is made by people discussing and describing it, by discourses that are produced, reproduced and challenged in social groups beyond individual standpoints. Residents’ thoughts and ideas about place are an important part of what the communities are, were and will become, along with their reflexive relationship with their place of residence and thoughts on their own and other peoples’ future in the respective communities (See Lefebvre, 1991, Halegua, 2020). By reflexive relationship with place I am referring to actions where residents consider risk, think about their future, define what makes their life more meaningful and reflect upon changes in their environment; local community is one of the levels of these thoughts, attitudes and feelings.Five studies were conducted to investigate construction of place in the transiting mining communities of Kiruna and Gällivare using mixed methods: participatory action research in Living Labs, statistical logistics regression analysis, GIS 3D visualisation. This included an analytical review of research on established mining communities, a 3D visualisation of social issues in Gällivare, an analysis of Living Labs with residents of Gällivare and Kiruna as well as a group of commuters to Gällivare, a comparative study of three co-creative processes in Kiruna and a statistical analysis of construction of place in Kiruna over time.The results show that residents, while participating in dialogues on social sustainability and attractiveness, construct the transient communities through contradictory storylines. Bearing themes in construction of place were aggregated through the storylines that residents constructed and reproduced, expressed different attitudes towards and referenced. The established storylines with a long history, such as model community, a town constructed as a new establishment planned to be modern and inclusive; nature and the town, the theme of beautiful natural surroundings valued by residents and visitors, including the mountains, forest, rivers and lakes; big city elsewhere, a big city used in the construction of Kiruna and Gällivare to show what those places are not, as a counterpoint; the secure small town, the storyline of knowing “everyone”, spontaneously meeting, helping each other, were all used to re-establish the sense of stability and reframe the new environment by connecting it to the construction of the communities’ past. The storyline, the conditionally inclusive town, was used to question the character of and conditions for inclusion in the local interconnected context. The storylines of hope of a more inclusive and sustainable future and broken promises of a faster transformation, resulting in bigger changes, were used to process the change to imagined futures of place.There were certain patterns in how people of different age groups, professions and gender construct place in transiting communities. The main difference in the way men and women constructed Gällivare, according to 3D visualisation analysis, was that women were less content than men with the built environment, following similar geographical patterns. Construction of Kiruna as a place to live (or leave) over time has shown that while blue-collar workers were less prone than white-collar workers to consider leaving in 2011, there were no significant differences between social classes in 2016 in that regard. Generational patterns were similar - the younger the respondent, the more prone he or she is to consider leaving - but the gap between the youngest respondents and all other respondents has grown. The effect of social bonds that inhibit the will to move went from insignificant to visible for men and from significant to stronger for women. The hope of a transformed Kiruna, so ubiquitous in 2011, was much less pronounced in 2016.Different research methods had different potential in terms of the potential to understand construction of place and were thus included in the planning process: the statistical method gave representative patterns of factors behind whether residents consider leaving and how the patterns changed over time, but this method was limited in its ability to generate an understanding of the contextual meaning of those patterns, Living Labs provided the opportunity to see how place is constructed in dialogues but was limited in its ability to generate an understanding of preferences and individual standpoints, 3D visualisation provided spatial patterns beyond statistics and means for discussion and communication of those patterns with a broad variety of actors but had limited potential for their interpretation.
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