Rapporter / Göteborgs miljövetenskapliga centrum GMV
https://hdl.handle.net/2077/36367
2024-03-28T15:25:17ZA Global Goal: Sustainable Economic Growth and Decent Work for All
https://hdl.handle.net/2077/73636
A Global Goal: Sustainable Economic Growth and Decent Work for All
Strömstad, Jenni
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZStakeholder Interaction in Research Processes - A Guide for Researchers and Research Groups
https://hdl.handle.net/2077/51971
Stakeholder Interaction in Research Processes - A Guide for Researchers and Research Groups
Slunge, Daniel; Drakenberg, Olof; Ekbom, Anders; Göthberg, Maria; Knaggård, Åsa; Sahlin, Ullrika
In many research projects, stakeholder interaction is ad hoc rather than strategic and systematic. This guide provides advice on good practice, strategies and tools for researchers and research groups interested in finding effective ways to involve stakeholders in their research and have an impact on society.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZEnvironment and Climate Change Management: Perspectives for Post Conflict-Colombia
https://hdl.handle.net/2077/42061
Environment and Climate Change Management: Perspectives for Post Conflict-Colombia
Garcia, Jorge; Slunge, Daniel
Environment and natural resources are linked to violent conflict and human rights in Colombia in several ways. While conflict over land rights is a well-known cause of involuntary displacement, revenues from illicit drugs fuel conflict through providing financing for armed groups. Conflict and unequal development also lead to environmental degradation and loss of ecosystem services which particularly affect poor men and women. They have least capacity to cope with health problems related to poor water and air quality, food insecurity or economic shocks following natural disasters.
This Policy Brief outlines key environmental and climate change issues in Colombia and discusses how these are linked to conflicts, human rights and a post-conflict scenario. The analysis provides input to the ongoing process to draft a new Swedish cooperation strategy for Colombia and responds to the Swedish Governments thematic priority of Environment and Climate Change in Development Cooperation.
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZStockholm+40: Partnership Forum for Sustainable Development – Scientific Background report on Sustainable Innovations, Production and Lifestyles
https://hdl.handle.net/2077/40499
Stockholm+40: Partnership Forum for Sustainable Development – Scientific Background report on Sustainable Innovations, Production and Lifestyles
Eriksson, Elin; Ekbom, Anders; Grennfelt, Peringe
This report has been commissioned by the Swedish Government/Ministry of Environment’s request: The general purpose is to inform the Stockholm+40 international conference on sustainable living and innovative solutions held in Stockholm April 23-25 2012. The specific purpose is to look back at the prevailing scientific knowledge and the political processes pertaining to environment in 1972, the subsequent developments in research, knowledge generation, policy formulation and implementation, and future challenges. The report builds on scientific evidence but is deliberately written in a format and style, which can be accessed and understood by a broader target group than scientists, e.g. planners, analysts, development practitioners and decision-makers.
This report has been written by Anders Ekbom, Elin Eriksson and Peringe Grennfelt, with input and advice from John Munthe, Research director at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. Anders Ekbom is researcher and deputy Director at The Centre for Environment and Sustainability, GMV, in Gothenburg, at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Elin Eriksson is Director of Sustainable Organisations, Products and Processes at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL). Peringe Grennfelt is former Director of research at IVL and Program Director of Mistra’s Climate Policy Research Program.
The report it is structured as follows: Chapter 2 introduces the Stockholm+40 conference topics (“Sustainable Innovations, Production and Lifestyles”) by taking a historical look at environmental research and environmental policy work since the UN conference on the Human environment in Stockholm in 1972 and changes which have taken place since then. The report then addresses key policy developments over the 40 years, introduction of concepts such as sustainable development, and trends and research on sustainable innovations, sustainable production and sustainable lifestyles, respectively. Regarding sustainable innovations (Ch. 3) the report presents and discusses technical, institutional, organizational, economic and social innovations which have promoted sustainable development, and trends challenges and needs for new innovations to alleviate environmental pressures and find solutions. Other specific issues addressed include incentives for sustainable innovations to develop or reach new markets; legal incentives for sustainable innovations (rules, standards, norms, quotas), R & D (patents, intellectual property rights), and creation of/access to new markets for innovations, and economic, market-based incentives (fees, taxes, subsidies, levies, refunds) as new forms of incentives for innovations.
Regarding Sustainable Production (Ch. 4) the report presents trends in production, explains research knowledge on the production-growth-environment dynamics, with a focus on the scale effect, the technique effect and the composition effect. It briefly introduces and discusses concepts such as de-coupling and the rebound effect, and addresses the role of government (policy instruments to promote Sustainable Production), institutions and the business sector for sustainable production and sustainable value chains – from local production to consumers, to reduction, reuse, re-engineering and recycling.
Regarding Sustainable lifestyles (Ch. 5) the report presents changes in lifestyles and addresses what is needed to promote sustainable lives and sustainable choices (the individual perspective), and presents trends regarding lifestyles, specifically pertaining to consumption of goods and services, transport, energy use and food consumption. This section ends with identifying and discussing
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challenges to implement sustainable lifestyles, and ways to reduce/reform non-sustainable consumption towards sustainable choices.
The report ends with a Summary and conclusions (Ch. 6), which includes a broader discussion on lessons learnt and challenges which have to be met appropriately in order to promote and ensure sustainable development.
Caveat: By necessity a report of this brief format, broad scope, as well as the limited time in which it has been produced, implies by necessity that it does not cover everything in any detail or with sufficiently significant depth. Nevertheless it is the authors’ hope that the report can inform readers on the developments which have taken place in the area of environmental sustainability over the last 40 years, that it adequately points out key challenges ahead, and inspires action.
2012-04-18T00:00:00Z