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- Emtairah, Tareq, et al.
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Fossil Fuel Free Municipalities in Sweden : Analysing Modes of Governing
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Based on national legislations, Swedish municipal authorities have the responsibility as well as the means to shape their own transport and energy systems and lead the transformation towards fossil fuel free cities. In this report we explore how sixteen Swedish municipalities work toward fossil fuel free visions and goals with a particular emphasis on the urban transport and energy systems. We derive our findings from a broad review of municipal policy, strategy and program documents as well as from structured interviews with civil servants working within theseissues. The report presents a summary of the visions and goals adopted by municipalities in Sweden as well as the translation of these visions and goals into key targets and strategies. It also provides a summary of general patterns derived from document analysis and interviews of how municipal authorities work with and use various governing modes to facilitate the transformation towards less dependence on fossil fuels, using transport and energy as a focus area.
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- Leire, Charlotte, et al.
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Long-term market effects of green public procurement
- 2018
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Ingår i: Preventing Environmental Damage from Products : An Analysis of the Policy and Regulatory Framework in Europe - An Analysis of the Policy and Regulatory Framework in Europe. - : Cambridge University Press. - 9781108422444 - 9781108500128 ; , s. 303-334
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- Background and Policy Context: Previous chapters in this book have explored several product-oriented policies, including mandatory laws and product energy labelling, and discussed the importance of an appropriate policy mix. In this chapter, we examine the effects of demand-side policies, with a focus on green public procurement (GPP). GPP has been defined as ‘a process whereby public authorities seek to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life-cycle when compared to goods, services and works with the same primary function that would otherwise be procured’. GPP, Bouwer et al. write, is the approach by which Public Authorities integrate environmental criteria into all stages of their procurement process, thus encouraging the spread of environmental technologies and the development of environmentally sound products, by seeking and choosing outcomes and solutions that have the least possible impact on the environment throughout their whole life-cycle. GPP can also be broken down into several actions the procuring agency can take. There are essentially two main ways to integrate environmental issues in GPP. (1) In the technical specifications that relate to the product or service. These requirements are mandatory for all bidders for a contract; failure to comply means the supplier is excluded from the process. (2) In the award criteria. Here, green criteria are ‘weighted’ - together with other criteria such as those related to price and quality - and the procuring agency weighs the bids according to a predefined scoreboard. GPP can become a very powerful policy, as governments are powerful actors in the market, not only as legislators but also as buyers. Governments also have the ability to influence markets where they represent a large share of the market (as in, e.g., office equipment, transport vehicles, electricity, health care products). The power of governmental actors is significant also because, unlike other market players, public organizations at various levels can coordinate their purchasing strategies in order to achieve policy aims. As discussed in Chapter 3 in this volume, GPP is one of the policies that can complement mandatory standards and encourage manufacturers to design greener products, by acting as ‘carrots’ rather than ‘sticks’.
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- Leire, Charlotte, et al.
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Online teaching going massive: input and outcomes
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Ingår i: Journal of Cleaner Production. - : Elsevier BV. - 0959-6526. ; 123, s. 230-233
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The proliferation of massive open online courses is a recent phenomenon in higher education. At the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University in Sweden, emerging pedagogical approaches in e-learning have long been embraced, allowing for valuable experience with new educational technologies applied in education for sustainability. In 2014, the Institute was given a formal task to develop a massive open online course on “Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia”, thereby utilizing existing capacities and experiences while experiencing new challenges revealed by courses of larger scale. This article presents the background to the Institute's undertaking with massive open online courses and the range of expectations from the main stakeholders. The article discusses massive open online courses as a novel venue for e-learning in sustainability education as regards learning activities, design and content. It concludes that while the initial experience of such a course has been positive, in order to better cater to the learner groups, continued attention needs to be paid to course design, teacher capacity and in particular an examination of learner motivations.
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- Magnusson, Charlotte, et al.
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Stroke and universal design
- 2018
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Ingår i: Transforming our World Through Design, Diversity and Education - Proceedings of Universal Design and Higher Education in Transformation Congress 2018. - 1879-8365 .- 0926-9630. - 9781614999225 ; 256, s. 854-861
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Universal Design (UD) is usually stated to be “for all ages and abilities”. Given that stroke is a major source of disability, it is important that UD recommendations take stroke-specific problems into account. Within the framework of EU project STARR, we have investigated user requirements of stroke survivors. In this project we have used a mix of interviews, focus groups, design workshops and technology tests to come up with a set of design recommendations, which we present as a first step towards universal design recommendations which are inclusive for stroke survivors. Our general recommendations are: make it fun, do not make people fail, empower and encourage. The technology needs to be highly adaptable to different sets of abilities. Safety, but also aesthetics and simplicity is important, but it is pointed out that designs should not be “childish” – this can be felt to be degrading. It is important to be able to see and follow your progress and win small victories often. Consider social applications and activities –being able to connect to others in the same situation can enable discussions and provide peer support. More stroke consequence specific recommendations are to design to allow one-sided use (hemiplegia), avoid sensory and activity overload (fatigue), complement speech with images (aphasia), limit demand on memory, support learning and avoid errors (memory problems), and include multiple modalities in your design (reduced vision or hearing).
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- Mccormick, Kes, et al.
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Sharing Cities Sweden: Exploring the emerging landscape of the sharing economy in cities
- 2019
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Sharing Cities Sweden aims to put Sweden on the map as a country that actively and critically works with the sharing economy in cities. We are developing world-leading test-beds for the sharing economy in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Umeå. We are developing a national node to significantly improve national and international cooperation and promote an exchange of experience on sharing cities.
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- Richter, Jessika Luth, et al.
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Greening the global classroom: experiences using MOOCs to advance sustainability education
- 2015
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Ingår i: Global Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption Conference Proceedings.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The proliferation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been a phenomenon in higher education but only recently the subject of academic literature. MOOCs combine the traditional ideas of cohort and guided learning with open access and a truly global classroom. With over twenty thousand learners attracted to such courses, we argue that they can be a powerful tool in advancing sustainability education in terms of global reach. Like traditional education, the quality of the education delivered by MOOCs is influenced by their design and this is also integral to their success in promoting deeper learning of sustainability topics. However, designing a quality course and ensuring genuine learning experiences in this open and massive context is not without challenges. We describe our practical experience with curriculum design, production and delivery of a MOOC with a wide sustainability focus of "Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia". The background of students taking the MOOC, motivations and reasons for seeking this type of sustainability education and perceived benefits from this MOOC and other MOOCs with topics related to sustainability are discussed. Combining pedagogical approaches in the form of teacher-led lectures and quizzes for basic understanding with more constructivist forum discussions and peer assessment created the opportunity for the MOOC to not only disseminate knowledge about sustainability issues, but also encourage discussion, peer interaction, and deeper engagement with these issues. An interesting aspect of this reciprocal learning was the collected insights from learners in the form of case studies and survey responses. The promise, as well as potential issues, of MOOCs in contributing to the goals of sustainability education and lifelong learning are discussed and reflected upon.
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Sharing Cities : Exploring the Emerging Landscape of the Sharing Economy in Cities
- 2019
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Sharing Cities Sweden aims to put Sweden on the map as a country that actively and critically works with the sharing economy in cities. The objectives of the program are to develop world-leading test-beds for the sharing economy in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Umeå as well as develop a national node to significantly improve national and international cooperation and promote an exchange of experience on sharing cities.
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- Thidell, Åke, et al.
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T h e Nordic Swan 2015 – Performance indicators for ecolabelling
- 2015
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Nordic Swan is a voluntary environmental and consumer policy instrument that was launched in the Nordic countries in 1989. Ever since, the scheme has grown with increasing numbers of product groups and licence holders. Similarly, the number of ecolabelled products in the market place has also grown, resulting in a growing financial turnover. The Nordic Swan has furthermore also been joined by additional parallel ecolabelling schemes. Just like other policy instruments, the Nordic Swan is subject to evaluations. As of yet, the scheme has been evaluated three times and questions regarding quantitative information on performance and efficiency of the Nordic scheme and comparability with other schemes have been recurrent issues in connection to these evaluations. Beside policy-makers and people in charge of the scheme, market actors are also interested in the question, to decide to what extent they should consider the ecolabel when acting on the market. These market actors could be consumers who seek for guidance, producers in need for trustworthy market communication channels, consumer and environmental NGOs needing to know if they should promote the ecolabel among their members, etc. These and other reasons call for appropriate information systems that bring forward the requested information in, for instance, suitable systematically selected and standardised indicators. Such indicators could be used for various purposes, for example documenting trends in performance and efficiency of the scheme, making comparisons of different schemes, benchmarking studies for mutual learning and continual improvements, to name a few. We propose that the Nordic Swan scheme prioritises developing indicators to track changes in internal performance and efficiency. Pilot studies could be developed on comparisons of differences between the national competent bodies of the Nordic Swan, as well as the EU Ecolabel. Pushing joint development of indicator sets for comparisons as collaborative projects with other schemes, for instance the EU Ecolabel, is on one hand desirable but can also become time-consuming. We therefore suggest that such projects are given lower priority
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- Thidell, Åke, et al.
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The Nordic Swan: Possibilities and limitations for synergies with Green Public Procurement before 2014
- 2015
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report was initiated and conducted as input to the discussions based on the “Vision 2015” document for the Nordic Swan that explicitly states a wish to find ways to make use of ecolabelling in the green public procurement (GPP) setting. In 2014, the Directive (2004/18/EG) on public procurement was revised and replaced by Directive (2014/24/EU). Some of the restrictions in using ecolabelling in GPP mentioned in this report may thus not be valid while the discussion on the relation between the two policy instruments as such still is considered relevant.
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- Voytenko Palgan, Yuliya, et al.
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Mobile Lab on Sharing in Malmö
- 2019
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Cities are seen as one of the leading forces in making our societies sustainable and resource efficient. The latest trends of sharing homes, cars, bikes, tools and other goods are fast entering our urban lives. The sharing economy is a consumption-production mode in a city, in which value is generated through transactions between peers or organisations that offer access to their idling or underutilised rivalrous physical assets. These assets are made available to individuals in processes often mediated by online platforms (Mont, Voytenko Palgan, and Zvolska 2019).Examples of sharing economy organisations (SEOs) include bicycle and car sharing initiatives, tool and clothes libraries, and short-term accommodation rentals between peers. The activities of SEOs are often cited as solutions to urban sustainability challenges, but their contribution to sustainability, resource efficiency and the circular economy has not been systematically evaluated. To build up an evidence base, and support sustainable sharing, a systematic and comparative analysis of the role of cities in sharing is needed. This report presents the outcomes of a one-day mobile lab on urban sharing in Malmö, which was arranged on 7 March 2018 within the framework of the Sharing and the City project, with support from the Sharing Cities Sweden programme and the Urban Reconomy project. A mobile lab is a collaborative process of conducting in-situ analysis by a research team that allows analysis of the study object, the sharing economy, in its context. Sharing in cities becomes institutionalised through two principal sets of dynamic processes. The first is a top-down institutionalisation dynamic when a city government employs its agency to promote or inhibit certain SEOs. To do so, it undertakes one or several of the following roles: regulator, provider, enabler and self-governor. The second set of institutionalisation processes of sharing in cities is bottom-up, resulting from institutional work by SEOs. These two sets of institutionalisation processes provided input to research themes and related interview questions explored during the mobile lab in Malmö.The mobile lab included planning meetings, development of research themes and questions to investigate, preparation of interview guides, one day of empirical data collection, written post-lab reflections of 500-1000 words and photos by each team member, processing the collected material, post-lab meetings to discuss reflections, and writing a mobile lab report. The mobile lab team comprised seven persons representing academia, the City of Malmö and an NGO (Bike Kitchen). During the mobile lab in Malmö, the team visited and interviewed an organisation for swapping clothes (Swop Shop), a tool library (Garaget), and the Streets and Parks Department at the City of Malmö, and held a meeting with an expert on the sharing and collaborative economy from a think tank (Drivhuset) based at Malmö University. After the mobile lab, all its participants documented and shared their reflections of the day, which formed the basis for this report.The mobile lab in Malmö was innovative in terms of methodology, as it included a heterogeneous group of participants consisting of academic and non-academic actors, which turned out to be beneficial for the data collection and reflection process. Several conclusions can be drawn from the mobile lab in Malmö in terms of content:1. The City of Malmö sees sharing practices as a way to achieve sustainability goals or tackle its urban sustainability challenges, such as environmental pollution, congestion, lack of space, social integration, equity and justice, and unemployment. 2. The sharing practices with which the mobile lab group engaged are targeted at altering normative institutions of ownership and consumption patterns. 3. National taxation systems and regulations appear to play a significant role in creating barriers to the sharing economy in cities in general, and in Malmö in particular. Our current accounting systems in society need to be changed to accommodate the new forms of consumption activities.4. The potential for positive economic and social impacts from the sharing services seems evident, but the positive environmental benefits are difficult to assess. 5. Collaborations between city governments and business-oriented sharing organisations are problematic, as these may contradict free market competition rules. One way to address this challenge is through the development of experimental projects where various actors, including city governments, sharing organisations, academia and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), collaborate on testing new sharing solutions.
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