Municipalities' ambitions and practices: At risk of hypocritical sustainability transitions?

Sammanfattning

In contemporary planning discourse and practice, different planning ideas co-exists. How this affects the transition towards a sustainable development is an important question for both research and practice. The aim of this study is to explore potential conflicts between planning goals caught between growth-led planning and sustainability commitments in a case study of Fredericia, Denmark. The paper discusses the underlying, framing and controlling conditions for transition dynamics. The analysis builds largely on the formulated policies, strategies or national goal achievements towards sustainable futures. These are put in the context of planning and political practices, which are interpreted from a sustainability rationale. Here this study introduces hypocrisy as a theoretical-analytical perspective to dispute actual sustainability practices to respond to continuous ambivalent planning measures. The author concludes that disregarding the inherently different internal logics of growths and sustainability leads to planning paradoxes and impedes sustainable transitions pursued.

Nyckelord

Urban sustainability transitions; sustainable mobility; ambivalence in planning; ecological modernization; green growth; token sustainability efforts; hypocrisy

Publicerad i

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
2016, volym: 18, nummer: 3, sidor: 361-378
Utgivare: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

SLU författare

• Vogel, Nina

  • Institutionen för landskapsarkitektur, planering och förvaltning, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen (SDG)

SDG11 Hållbara städer och samhällen

UKÄ forskningsämne

Sociologi (exklusive socialt arbete, socialpsykologi och socialantropologi)
Annan samhällsbyggnadsteknik
Transportteknik och logistik

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2015.1099425

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/77231