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Pathways to Sustainable Welfare
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Cities face the challenge of providing welfare within planetary boundaries. As climate change accelerates and has led to a phase of climate emergency, more efforts are needed to handle the dual challenge of adapting to climate change while safeguarding the welfare of citizens. Through original empirical research, this academic work explores whether Swedish metropolitan cities – Gothenburg, Malmö and Stockholm – have entered the path towards sustainable welfare in urban governance. It examines integration across environmental and welfare domains in three core sites of urban governance – local government, civil society and public opinion. The book develops an original framework to capture stability and change by exploring theories in sociology, political science and sustainability studies. Guided by the concepts of inertia, emergence and transformation, the authors reveal that while cities largely adhere to established practices, keeping environmental and welfare concerns separate, promising signs of change emerge. These ‘seeds of emergence’ come from path entrepreneurs who are developing new ideas and practices for more sustainable, welfare-oriented modes of urban governance. The research finds them challenged by discourses and practices of rejection and denial, making it clear that a path towards sustainable welfare in urban governance remains contested.
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Keywords
- Central/national/federal policies
- Envrionmental economics
- Green politics/ecopolitics/environmentalism
- Social welfare and social services
- sustainability
- Sweden
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNS Sweden
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFA Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
- urban communities
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DOI: 10.51952/9781447372608Editions
