Towards development beyond GDP; case studies of Egnahemsfabriken and Uddebo
| dc.contributor.author | Rehnberg, Frida | |
| dc.contributor.department | Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik (ACE) | sv |
| dc.contributor.department | Chalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik (ACE) | en |
| dc.contributor.examiner | Adelfio, Marco | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-18T10:20:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-18T10:20:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.date.submitted | ||
| dc.description.abstract | Alternative approaches to sustainability, such as initiatives resonating with the degrowth paradigm have the potential of showing how societies can develop with a focus beyond GDP. Considering the current demographic pattern in Sweden, many people will live in rurban and rural areas in the future. How to live and operate sustainably in these areas is explored in this thesis. More precisely, the aim is to explore two rural locations in Sweden, Egnahemsfabriken on Tjörn, and the village Uddebo, where civil society has organised to solve local issues - initiatives that resonate to a great extent with the degrowth paradigm, and initiatives that has brought a lot of positive outcomes locally. Through semi-structured interviews, these places are explored by delving into how these initiatives started, how it has developed, what challenges there have been and what is important to consider for the future. The results show that diversity among people, a lot of drive and energy, as well as unpaid time spent, and empty premises for a low rent/price, has been important in both areas. While Egnahemsfabriken seems to focus on reaching out locally, regionally and even nationally, and to influence other places and institutional levels, Uddebo seems to be more of a place where people move to do their own thing, to work less, do things together, but with great diversity where not everyone is engaged in local initiatives. Some of Egnahemsfabriken’s focuses for the future could be to reach out more to the local society and the municipality through e.g. meetings and low-threshold events, increase the long-term financial stability and make projects last longer, as well as continuing facilitating administration and collaboration with their partners. For Uddebo, preventing gentrification, doing bigger projects, and exploring local solutions for sharing/gift economy as well as other local platforms (e.g. local radio and local social media platform) were suggested. | |
| dc.identifier.coursecode | ACEX30 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12380/308988 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.setspec.uppsok | Technology | |
| dc.subject | degrowth, alternative development, bottom-up, rurality, civil society | |
| dc.title | Towards development beyond GDP; case studies of Egnahemsfabriken and Uddebo | |
| dc.type.degree | Examensarbete för masterexamen | sv |
| dc.type.degree | Master's Thesis | en |
| dc.type.uppsok | H | |
| local.programme | Industrial ecology (MPTSE), MSc |