Sustainable private consumption patterns - The obstacles for Lund to promote organic provisions
(2006)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to investigate why the municipality of Lund has not done
more, in relation to LundaMaTs, to inform and promote the purchasing of organic
provisions to the public. This is of interest since it is determined in the Rio
Declaration and Agenda 21 that the current unsustainable production and
consumption patterns need to change. The local authorities play an important role
in order to achieve a sustainable development. One way to achieve sustainable
consumption patterns is to increase the private purchasing of organic provisions. It
is assumed that the same obstacles that have been found in earlier studies
concerning implementation of Agenda 21 objectives at a local level also constitute
obstacles for the... (More) - The aim of this thesis is to investigate why the municipality of Lund has not done
more, in relation to LundaMaTs, to inform and promote the purchasing of organic
provisions to the public. This is of interest since it is determined in the Rio
Declaration and Agenda 21 that the current unsustainable production and
consumption patterns need to change. The local authorities play an important role
in order to achieve a sustainable development. One way to achieve sustainable
consumption patterns is to increase the private purchasing of organic provisions. It
is assumed that the same obstacles that have been found in earlier studies
concerning implementation of Agenda 21 objectives at a local level also constitute
obstacles for the efforts to promote organic provisions in Lund. In order to answer
the aim, interviews with politicians and civil servants within the municipal
administration were conducted. The results showed that the main obstacles
experienced by the interviewees were political disagreement, a fear of backlash
from the public and that promotion is being viewed as an ineffective tool. (Less)
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- author
- Scott Jakobsson, Linda and Lindblad, Jenny
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Agenda 21, sustainable consumption, sustainable development, local implementation, organic provisions, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- English
- id
- 1327897
- date added to LUP
- 2006-02-10 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2006-02-10 00:00:00
@misc{1327897,
abstract = {{The aim of this thesis is to investigate why the municipality of Lund has not done
more, in relation to LundaMaTs, to inform and promote the purchasing of organic
provisions to the public. This is of interest since it is determined in the Rio
Declaration and Agenda 21 that the current unsustainable production and
consumption patterns need to change. The local authorities play an important role
in order to achieve a sustainable development. One way to achieve sustainable
consumption patterns is to increase the private purchasing of organic provisions. It
is assumed that the same obstacles that have been found in earlier studies
concerning implementation of Agenda 21 objectives at a local level also constitute
obstacles for the efforts to promote organic provisions in Lund. In order to answer
the aim, interviews with politicians and civil servants within the municipal
administration were conducted. The results showed that the main obstacles
experienced by the interviewees were political disagreement, a fear of backlash
from the public and that promotion is being viewed as an ineffective tool.}},
author = {{Scott Jakobsson, Linda and Lindblad, Jenny}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Sustainable private consumption patterns - The obstacles for Lund to promote organic provisions}},
year = {{2006}},
}