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MAMMUT - managing the metabolism of urbanization: testing theory through a pilot study of the Stockholm Underground

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  • Örjan Svane

    (KTH Built Environment Analysis, Department of Urban Studies, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden)

  • Carina Weingaertner

    (KTH Built Environment Analysis, Department of Urban Studies, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden)

Abstract

The research project MAMMUT explores synergies between the processes of urbanization and sustainable development. In a pilot study, we tested the assumption that the concept of situations of opportunity can define the project's unit of analysis. We applied MAMMUT's conceptual framework to the Stockholm Underground, identified that situation's formative moment (1941, when main decisions were taken) and analysed its prehistory and factual outcome. To illustrate its field of options, a counterfactual highway and roads scenario was developed. For outcome and scenario, we outlined the resulting urban structure, the institutions of development and operation and the households' ways of life, and assessed environmental impacts. The situation concept was found to be useful for identifying and analysing synergies between urbanization and sustainable development. It needs to be further developed to study the relationships between its four disciplinary aspects. Applying it to futurological studies calls for methodological development including scenario techniques and backcasting. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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  • Örjan Svane & Carina Weingaertner, 2006. "MAMMUT - managing the metabolism of urbanization: testing theory through a pilot study of the Stockholm Underground," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(5), pages 312-326.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:sustdv:v:14:y:2006:i:5:p:312-326
    DOI: 10.1002/sd.289
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    1. Örjan Svane, 2008. "Situations of opportunity – Hammarby Sjöstad and Stockholm City's process of environmental management," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(2), pages 76-88, March.
    2. John, Beatrice & Luederitz, Christopher & Lang, Daniel J. & von Wehrden, Henrik, 2019. "Toward Sustainable Urban Metabolisms. From System Understanding to System Transformation," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 157(C), pages 402-414.
    3. Eeva-Sofia Säynäjoki & Jukka Heinonen & Seppo Junnila, 2014. "The Power of Urban Planning on Environmental Sustainability: A Focus Group Study in Finland," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 6(10), pages 1-22, September.

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