Urban sustainable development from a place-based and a system-based approach: Case study Malmö
(2009) International Conference City Futures 09- Abstract
- This paper discusses urban sustainable development by comparing two approaches: a place-based sustainability approach which focuses the direct and often production based impacts on a region, and a system-based approach which reveals the indirect and consumption based effects of globalised patterns of production, consumption and trade. Malmö, a small/middle-sized city in Sweden, is used as a case study. While many improvements have been made in the local environment the big challenge is the fact that Malmö, as well as other modern urban regions, has a large and globally dispersed Ecological footprint. That is, in the course of modernization and deindustrialisation of many European cities, the ecological (and social) burden from a continued... (More)
- This paper discusses urban sustainable development by comparing two approaches: a place-based sustainability approach which focuses the direct and often production based impacts on a region, and a system-based approach which reveals the indirect and consumption based effects of globalised patterns of production, consumption and trade. Malmö, a small/middle-sized city in Sweden, is used as a case study. While many improvements have been made in the local environment the big challenge is the fact that Malmö, as well as other modern urban regions, has a large and globally dispersed Ecological footprint. That is, in the course of modernization and deindustrialisation of many European cities, the ecological (and social) burden from a continued high level of material and energy consumption has changed from a local and contemporaneous problem into a global and complex sustainability challenge. (Less)
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- author
- Andrén, Sabina LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2009
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- unpublished
- subject
- keywords
- and city governance, sustainable development, Urban, socio-ecological system, ecological footprint
- pages
- 21 pages
- conference name
- International Conference City Futures 09
- conference dates
- 2009-06-04 - 2009-06-06
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- cd193c65-49a4-4ddf-a852-bc409615bf9b (old id 1496387)
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abstract = {{This paper discusses urban sustainable development by comparing two approaches: a place-based sustainability approach which focuses the direct and often production based impacts on a region, and a system-based approach which reveals the indirect and consumption based effects of globalised patterns of production, consumption and trade. Malmö, a small/middle-sized city in Sweden, is used as a case study. While many improvements have been made in the local environment the big challenge is the fact that Malmö, as well as other modern urban regions, has a large and globally dispersed Ecological footprint. That is, in the course of modernization and deindustrialisation of many European cities, the ecological (and social) burden from a continued high level of material and energy consumption has changed from a local and contemporaneous problem into a global and complex sustainability challenge.}},
author = {{Andrén, Sabina}},
keywords = {{and city governance; sustainable development; Urban; socio-ecological system; ecological footprint}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Urban sustainable development from a place-based and a system-based approach: Case study Malmö}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/6383998/1496388.pdf}},
year = {{2009}},
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