, Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Stockholm, 09:15 (English)Ģ015 (English) In: Environment and planning A, ISSN 0308-518X, E-ISSN 1472-3409, Vol. Other Social Sciences Research subject Planning and Decision Analysis Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-199955 ISBN: 978-91-7729-249-4 (print) OAI: oai::kth-199955 DiVA, id: diva2:1067111 Public defence Urban sustainability Sweden Eco-cities GHG calculations Political ecology Actor network-theory National Category Place, publisher, year, edition, pagesStockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2017. This research highlights the need to continuously develop and contest imaginaries and planning practices of sustainability, of who is perceived as “sustainable” and what a socio-environmentally just perspective might mean in practice for policy makers and planners alike. Here, I emphasise a consumption perspective on greenhouse gas emissions as an important counter-narrative and analyse two Swedish municipalities’ efforts to lessen citizens’ consumption through policy and planning practice. The fourth and fifth papers address the wider question of how planning can foster more socio-environmentally just forms of urban sustainability. Rather, planning should aim for more just socio-environmental relations within and across urban borders. In this research, I advocate a political ecology perspective and relational view of space, wherein there are no such things as sustainable or unsustainable cities. The storyline of decoupling – and the circulating business of sustainable urbanism into which it feeds – is based on a deficient territorial view of space. Few of these plans, I note, were materialised in built form rather, they contributed to the circulation of a repetitive model of sustainable urbanism, reinforcing a paradoxical idea of urban sustainability as “green islands of privilege”. The second and third papers study the circulation of this imaginary in practice, specifically examining two cases of exporting Swedish sustainable urban planning to Chinese eco-city projects. ![]() ![]() Using an actor-network theory approach, I view the Swedish pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010 as a node in a wider network, arguing that the notion of decoupling GDP growth from CO2 emissions constitutes a central storyline. The first article examines how this imaginary is produced. This thesis, comprising five separate articles and a cover essay, is a critical study of the Swedish urban sustainable imaginary. Sweden has been praised for its achievements, and promoted as a role model, in sustainable urban development. ![]() 2017 (English) Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic) Abstract
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