VIKTOR CARLSON & ANNICA CORELL (2019) To meet the grand challenges facing humanity sustainability transitions are needed. The United Nations’ Agenda 2030 for sustainable development, ‘Transforming our world’, calls for urgent transformation. Urban experimentation has emerged as a form of governance for sustainability transitions, where Urban Living Labs (ULLs) are […]
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SOURABHA BHAT & ABDALRAHMAN ALOBEISSI (2019) Human population is in constant increase which creates a huge demand for different resources, expanding infrastructure and transportation connectivity. Cities tend to become denser with the need for mobility of people and goods between different facilities and activity locations. Public transportation must be promoted […]
NORA FISCHER & PER PERSSON (2019) Freight transports are an essential part of society as they enable both social and economic value. However, there are challenges connected to freight transports. Especially urban areas, where over 90 per cent of the Swedes will live in 2050, face challenges such as congestion, […]
ASHWIN SIDHARTHAN & HANNA WESTERLUND (2019) The use and production of plastics has increased substantially over the years leading to an increase in the generation of plastic waste. Today, plastic waste is either used for energy recovery by incineration or recycled mechanically. However, there has been developments in chemical recycling […]
USISIPHO GOGELA & VASILIS DROGKOULAS (2018) The reduction of emissions from energy generation is one of the key interventions that can be made to meet climate goals. In order to achieve this, a shift to renewable energy will be required. In West Sweden, despite the energy sector’s importance in reducing […]
PIA DAMSTEN & KRESHNIK RAMA (2018) Urban Agriculture (UA) has recently gained growing attention from the world’s leading global organizations, as it has been identified to play a major role in the world’s bid for achieving the sustainable development goals. Although the number of UA initiatives in Gothenburg has increased, […]
JOHANNA OLOVSSON & FABIAN HEIN (2018) The applications of plastics seem unlimited but the material has been overused and side effects have been neglected. In Gothenburg, plastic litter as well as the increase in plastic waste and in the consumption of plastics are contradictory to the city’s aim of a […]
Applying sustainable development in the urban transportation system demands a transformative and integrative intervention in many different areas. In this thesis two successive processes, Phase I and Phase II, were conducted in order to investigate opportunities for sustainable development in the urban transport system. During Phase I the research question of this thesis was […]
© JOHAN LARSSON AND AMANDINE LAUMONT, 2015. Increasing concerns are being raised about the symptoms of the present unsustainable trends linked to the systems we have built up to fulfill our needs. This calls for a transition in systems related to energy supply, mobility, agriculture, and consumption. In order to […]