Pathways to Sustainable Welfare: Inertia, Emergence and Transformation in Swedish Cities

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Pathways to Sustainable Welfare critically examines how cities can address the dual challenges of climate change and sustainability while ensuring the welfare of their populations.

Focused on three Swedish cities, it explores the integration of environmental and welfare concerns in local policies, urban movements and public opinions. Based on theories of inertia, emergence and transformation, it identifies factors driving or obstructing sustainable welfare advancements.

This book is a crucial resource for scholars interested in sustainable transformation, urban governance and social policy. It offers frameworks and empirical evidence relevant to academics, policy makers and practitioners seeking to understand and engage in urban sustainable welfare development.

Kajsa Emilsson is Senior Lecturer at Lund University, Sweden. Martin Fritz is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Jena, Germany. Roger Hildingsson is Senior Researcher in Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. Håkan Johansson is Professor in Social Work at Lund University, Sweden. Jamil Khan is Associate Professor in Environmental and Energy Systems Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Max Koch is Professor in Social Policy and Sustainability at Lund University, Sweden.