Urban sustainable development from a place-based and a system-based approach: Case study Malmö
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Summary, in English
This paper discusses urban sustainable development by comparing two approaches: a place-based sustainability approach which focuses the direct and often production based impacts on a region, and a system-based approach which reveals the indirect and consumption based effects of globalised patterns of production, consumption and trade. Malmö, a small/middle-sized city in Sweden, is used as a case study. While many improvements have been made in the local environment the big challenge is the fact that Malmö, as well as other modern urban regions, has a large and globally dispersed Ecological footprint. That is, in the course of modernization and deindustrialisation of many European cities, the ecological (and social) burden from a continued high level of material and energy consumption has changed from a local and contemporaneous problem into a global and complex sustainability challenge.
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Publishing year
2009
Language
English
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Conference paper
Topic
- Social and Economic Geography
Keywords
- and city governance
- sustainable development
- Urban
- socio-ecological system
- ecological footprint
Conference name
International Conference City Futures 09
Conference date
2009-06-04 - 2009-06-06
Status
Unpublished