The 2030 Agenda and its SDGs call for cross-sectoral collaboration and societal
transformation. Translating these indivisible goals to the local level is an important …

The central concern of this book is place identity, and its representation and manipulation
through planning. Place identity is of growing international concern, both in planning …

The focus of this article is the Swedish experience of local governance and climate change,
including mitigation and adaptation. The municipal response to these two challenges is set …

Sweden is seen as a forerunner in environmental and ecological policy. Sweden and
ecological governance is about policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance …

Working with sustainability goals at the local level places large requirements on developing
and integrating priorities within the budgeting and organization of local government. This …

In the context of climate protection policies, this article addresses the post-carbon transitions
driven by a few cities. It investigates the political dimension and multilevel character of these …

Recently, considerable focus, eg, in the fifth IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change) Assessment Report (2014) has been trained on why adaptation and mitigation …

Abstract The diffusion of Local Agenda 21 (LA21) appears to have run its course, even in
Germany. Starting from Germany's changing international position from laggard to …

Since the end of the Cold War, the Baltic Sea region has developed into one of the most
dynamic areas in Europe. The region's geopolitical landscape changed rapidly when …

Much of the effort to address environmental issues at the local level has focused on defining
principles and aims rather than addressing the operational difficulties of implementation …