News for CESSS
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Do planners trust the citizens?
An important part of sustainable urban planning is the support and trust from the citizens. But what about the other way around? A new research project is focusing on mutual trust in planning situations.
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The dual role of social relations for sustainable lifestyle change
Consumerism is widely understood as unsustainable, but difficult to change due to its importance for our economy, culture and social relations. In a recent article, Magnus Boström has examined the role of social relations in both reproducing and...
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Can financial investments enable a green transformation?
The Swedish public pension funds (AP-funds) have been given the directive to incorporate support for sustainable development in their investment strategies. But what are the possibilities for combining financial values with sustainability values?
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What does diversity mean for IPCC?
The aim of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to produce environmental assessment reports with global credibility. A crucial aspect for ensuring their credibility has been to increase their diversity of authors in terms of gender,...
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To eat, or not to eat, climate-friendly?
CESSS-members Maria Ojala and Malin Anniko has published an article on emerging adults’ attitudes and feelings towards climate-friendly food choices, focusing on how thinking patterns can hinder or benefit pro-environmental behaviour.
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Discussions about consumption
The ethical and ecological problems with consumption in relation to sustainability are well known, and information on the matter is widely available. So why do some people make conscious consumptions choices, while others simply do not seem to care?
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Can we combine a circular economy with a toxic-free environment?
A transition to a circular economy would mean a reduced pressure on the environment as a larger part of extracted resources would be recycled. However, one of the issues that needs to be addressed to secure safe circular material flows, is the presence...
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Planning for the future
Ingemar Elander has published a paper discussing the role of planners and planning researchers in the quest of creating sustainable societies and handling global challenges in terms of climate, migration, pandemics and democracy.
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New project on equality in the implementation of the Green Deal receives funding
How can the Green Deal become reality? That is the question for a new project with the aim of finding ways to implement the Green Deal that is sensitive to gender equality and the inclusion of marginalised groups in society.
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How might a globalized environmental sociology look like?
Rolf Lidskog, member of CESSS, has together with Stewart Lockie, Director of The Cairns Institute, James Coock University, Australia, published a chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology. The chapter discusses what a more thoroughly...