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Jenny Palm

Jenny Palm

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Jenny Palm

The Role of Local Governments in Governing Sustainable Consumption and Sharing Cities

Author

  • Jenny Palm
  • Nora Smedby
  • Kes Mccormick

Editor

  • Oksana Mont

Summary, in English

Municipalities are key actors in their role as planners for sustainable urban development, and also have the responsibility to transform ambitious national and global goals and visions into local practices (McCormick et al., 2013). The role of municipalities in relation to enhancing sustainable consumption patterns has been increasingly highlighted by policy-makers and in research. Creating sustainable societies and shaping their consumption patterns has become an everyday activity for municipalities. This is also the case for the Nordic countries and not least for Sweden, which will be used as an example in this Chapter. The Nordic countries have the ambition of becoming sustainable leaders and enabling sustainable consumption (Mont et al., 2013).

Department/s

  • The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

Publishing year

2019-12-01

Language

English

Pages

172-184

Publication/Series

A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance

Volume

1

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • cities
  • consumption
  • governance
  • urban governance
  • governance mode
  • sharing cities
  • urban sharing
  • governing modes
  • local government

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781788117814