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Urban Planners’ Perspectives on Public Private Partnership for Wooden Multi-Storey Construction

Cecilia Mark-Herbert, Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, cecilia.mark-herbert@slu.se , Anders Roos, Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, Emil Nagy, Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, Fredrik Sjöström, Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
 
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Cecilia Mark-Herbert, Anders Roos, Emil Nagy and Fredrik Sjöström (2023), "Urban Planners’ Perspectives on Public Private Partnership for Wooden Multi-Storey Construction", Journal of Forest Economics: Vol. 38: No. 1, pp 7-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/112.00000542

Publication Date: 15 Mar 2023
© 2023 C. Mark-Herbert, A. Roos, E. Nagy and F. Sjöström
 
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Collaborationconstruction projectmarket developmentmulti-family housingpath dependencePPP
 

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In this article:
1. Introduction 
2. Aim and Focus for the Project 
3. A Conceptual Framework 
4. Methods 
5. Empirics – Development for Wooden Multi-Storey Construction 
6. Urban Planners’ Role for Wooden Multi-Storey Construction 
7. Conclusions 
A. Interview protocol 
References 

Abstract

Increased awareness of sustainable development in the construction industry and current housing shortages have contributed to market opportunities for wooden multi-storey construction (WMC) in the Nordic countries. However, the market development has been slow despite access to forest products and a political ambition to transform to a low carbon society. The aim of this study is to explain enabling factors for municipalities in Sweden to create institutional conditions that stimulate local market development of WMC. A comparative case study of municipal efforts to establish WMC norms has been conducted pointing to the importance of relationships, in so-called public private partnerships (PPP). These partnerships serve as long-lasting relations in which development processes can manage challenges relating to, for example, lack of professional experience in WMC and dated material understandings of wood as a construction material. In the Sustainable Development Goals, PPP represent enabling conditions for sustainable system transformations.

DOI:10.1561/112.00000542

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