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Efficiency–Equity–Trade–Off as a Challenge for Shaping Urban Transformations

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Over the past few decades, sustainability has emerged as one of the central guiding principles of policy formulation, especially—but not exclusively—in the field of environmental, climate, and development policy. According to the three-pillar model, sustainable development should be considered in terms of ecological, social, and economic aspects. The United Nations recently reaffirmed this triad of targets in its Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG), defining the direction to be taken in the formulation of global policies up to 2030. They were adopted at the UN Summit at the end of September 2015 (UN 2015). As explicitly emphasised in that context, the three dimensions of sustainability (economic, social, and environmental) are to be pursued “in a balanced and integrated manner” (UN 2015, p. 3). The simultaneous pursuit of all three dimensions of sustainability inevitably involves trade-offs that decision makers have to take into account and address when selecting policy instruments.

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  1. Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Erik Gawel

  2. Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Christian Kuhlicke

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  1. Department of Urban and Environment Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Sigrun Kabisch

  2. Department of Urban and Environment Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Florian Koch

  3. Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Erik Gawel

  4. Department of Urban and Environment Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Annegret Haase

  5. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany

    Sonja Knapp

  6. Department of Urban and Environment Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Kerstin Krellenberg

  7. Centre for Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Jaime Nivala

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    Andreas Zehnsdorf

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Gawel, E., Kuhlicke, C. (2018). Efficiency–Equity–Trade–Off as a Challenge for Shaping Urban Transformations. In: Kabisch, S., et al. Urban Transformations. Future City, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59324-1_3

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