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- Eckerberg, Katarina, 1953-
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Sweden : problems and prospects at the leading edge of LA21 implementation
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Ingår i: Sustainable communities in Europe. - : Routledge. - 9781849776042 - 1853837911 - 9781853837913 ; , s. 15-39
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish government reported to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) in June 1997 that all municipalities were underway with LA21. The investment programme was, however, not the first financial support provided by the national government to local initiatives. The chapter provides a general overview of the status of LA21, and introduces some of the main characteristics of its content as seen from the municipalities. It describes the national government's programme for Sustainable Sweden, and the local investment programme in particular in relation to LA21. The national government's understanding of sustainable development will be compared with the municipal picture. The chapter examines the extent to which local planning for sustainability has led to a greater use of participatory methods due to LA21. It concludes with the problems and prospects of LA21 in a country at the leading edge of implementation.
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- Eckerberg, Katarina, Professor emerita, 1953-, et al.
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The Nature of Rural Development : The Case of Sweden
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a scoping study in a project initiated by WWF1 and partners into the nature of rural development in Europe. The project analyses rural development policies and practices in a range of countries with a view to developing a more robust model for sustainable, integrated rural development in the European Union. The scoping study has been supported by WWF and the British countryside agencies and undertaken by IEEP3, CRE4 and a consortium of independent consultants in 10 different European countries, over the period May to December 2000. The countries chosen include 6 EU Member States (Austria, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, UK), 3 accession countries (Hungary, Latvia, Poland) and Switzerland, which has pursuedits own approach outside the EU. The aim of this study has been to investigate actors, institutions and attitudes towards rural development, in order to help clarify key issues in working towards sustainability. It has started with a broad list of potential areas of interest, as follows:The driving forces for rural changeInstitutions and institutional arrangements for rural developmentNational perspectives on rural development principles and policiesThe role of the environment in rural development policies and outcomesThe role of social values (participation, equity, etc) in rural developmentThe resourcing of rural development policyThe role of the urban–rural interfaceAccountability versus flexibility and innovation, in policy delivery
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- Eckerberg, Katarina
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Vägen vi vandrat
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Hagberg, Lovisa, 1970-
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Finding a place for green politics : political space-time, globalisation and new environmental policy concepts
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overarching aim of this dissertation is to rethink green ideas for change in political space-time against the background of globalisation. It is based on two avenues of investigation. First, green ideas are contrasted with the analyses of current changes in political space-time found in the globalisation literature. Second, the kinds of political space-time that emerge in the encounter between two environmental policy concepts and environmental policy practice are studied. The policy concepts are river basin management and critical loads, both of which were launched as solutions to the problems policy-actors perceive in existing constructions of political space-time. Although the spatial reconfigurations entailed by processes of globalisation do not necessarily contradict green ideas, the temporalities of green theory and theories of globalisation are less easily reconciled. In terms of place, globalisation may lead to an increased interest in defending places, that is, the engagement with a politics of place. It is suggested that one could distinguish between politics of and politics in place, and that bioregionalism and other green theories concerned with place should strive towards the latter. The study of river basin management and critical loads raises important questions regarding the problem of scale in environmental politics. Whereas critical load deals with the problem of difference within a territory by abstraction, river basin management has also involved ideas about the importance of creating a sense of and care for place. Both concepts illustrate the challenge involved in considering the dynamic temporalities of nature in politics. New timeframes for environmental politics appear due to increased emphasis on issues of recovery from environmental change. It is observed that concepts like river basin management may carry very different spatial interpretations, for example, there is a difference in whether the river basin is understood in functional terms or as a container. Moreover, it is noted that different kinds of politics are at play in both cases. This suggests the possibility for greens to politicise political space-time at the margin, that is, in contexts which are not explicitly to do with spatio-temporal change. Finally, the study of green theory and theories of globalisation, and river basin management and critical loads, suggest that it is important to consider political space and time together. The possibility of developing a green politics of presence is offered as a potential first step in such an effort.
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