“green fix” as crisis management. or, in which world is malmö the world's greenest city?

Holgersen, Ståle; Malm, Andreas

doi:10.1111/geob.12081

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“…Bryant et al. ; Bumpus and Liverman ; Holgerson and Malm ; McCarthy ), though Ekers and Prudham's argument shows that it need not be limited to that.…”

Section: Theorising a Spatiotemporal Fix To Climate Changementioning

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“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

Carton

2019

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Models suggest that climate change mitigation now depends on negative emissions, i.e. the large‐scale removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This assumption has been criticised in the climate policy literature for being unfeasible and unjust. This article asks how critical scholars can make sense of, and contribute to these debates. It suggests that negative emissions can be conceived of as a spatiotemporal fix that promises to defer the devaluation of fixed capital. But the negative emissions example also challenges us to broaden our conception of how the socioecological contradictions of capitalism can be “fixed”. I outline three ways in which it does this by highlighting the significance of a predominantly temporal fix, the role of hegemonic, sociopolitical interventions involving multiple actors, and the possibility of safeguarding existing production processes. I conclude that spatiotemporal fixes to climate change should be seen as part of a wider political economy of delay in devaluing carbon‐intensive accumulation processes.

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“…Bryant et al. ; Bumpus and Liverman ; Holgerson and Malm ; McCarthy ), though Ekers and Prudham's argument shows that it need not be limited to that.…”

Section: Theorising a Spatiotemporal Fix To Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

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2019

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“…Table 1. Three Pitfalls: the conceptual framework and qualitative themes of analysis, compiled from: (A) [15,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]; (B) [9,14,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]; (C) [7,10,19,43,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]. To describe in detail the three pitfalls, I also develop a conceptual framework which break it down into the three project approaches that currently prevails: (1) technocentric, (2) top-down and (3) exceptional, namely not related to the ordinary (institutional) planning.…”

Section: The Three Pitfalls Of Sustainable City Project: a Conceptualmentioning

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“…The construction of sustainable city districts, in fact, seeks to market and export Swedish environmental technology and Bo01, particularly, is "a matter of branding" that will "attract taxpayers to Malmö" [28]. And in the same way the creation of cooperative-owned houses in Hammarby Sjöstad aims at obtaining quick profits [97].…”

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The Three Pitfalls of Sustainable City: A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating the Theory-Practice Gap

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2017

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Over the last three decades the environmental, economic and social crisis and the challenges and possibilities offered by new technologies have become the drivers of plans and projects for sustainable cities. In the face of a wide experimentation, the aim of this paper is to answer the question: what progress is implemented by the goal of sustainable city? To this end, I hold it is important point at the watershed between the declared intended goals of the projects realized to date and the results on the ground. To analyze this discrepancy, I have identified a common theory-practice gap in the form of the three pitfalls of sustainable city, which bring about economic and ethical conflicts and risks creating socio-spatial utopias. The three pitfalls are: (1) the idea of the city as a business; (2) the oversimplification of urban complexity; (3) the quest for the ideal community. This conceptual framework has two purposes. First, it helps to systematize the existing literature on the sustainable city project, focusing on few selected issues. Second, it offers a project evaluation framework, useful both for the management of resources and for the planning of urban space. To pinpoint these pitfalls in projects for sustainable cities could allow us to adopt a holistic approach to the city project and practice.

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“…Promoting economic growth and enhancing the city's competitive edge have become the most ambitious enterprise for local government. Even efforts for conserving the natural environment tend to be co-opted to serve the purpose of economic growth, indicating a subordinate position of environmental sustainability to the growth ideology [110].…”

Section: Potentials and Barriers To Realizing The Degrowth Scenariomentioning

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Two Contrasting Scenarios for a Zero-Emission Future in a High-Consumption Society

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Abstract:The Paris agreement on climate took effect on 4 November 2016. The agreement plans on holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 • C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 • C above pre-industrial levels. This paper compares an ecological modernisation (EM) development path with a degrowth development path, using urban and land-use planning impact on housing and transportation as cases. The two positions (EM and degrowth) agree on the need for a fundamental reduction in climate gases but disagree on which strategies should be pursued. EM transitions do not challenge the values associated with the capitalistic market economy and believe that policies, such as the right-price signals, should nudge producers and consumers in an environmentally benign direction. Conversely, degrowth rejects the EM belief in green growth, and holds that it will not be possible to decouple the economy from environmental loads to the necessary extent if the economy keeps growing. We conclude that we need a fundamental transformational change in society, i.e., a steering away from the growth ideology, and pursue policies that introduce maximum housing standards and limit mobility to succeed with the goals of the Paris agreement.

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“green fix” as crisis management. or, in which world is malmö the world's greenest city?

Cited by 68 publications

References 44 publications

“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

The Three Pitfalls of Sustainable City: A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating the Theory-Practice Gap

Two Contrasting Scenarios for a Zero-Emission Future in a High-Consumption Society

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