This event will offer the opportunity for scholars from Europe, as well as from around the world, to contribute to the exchange of experiences, ideas and knowledge regarding planning in the 21st century, in particular in relation to the congress theme: MAKING SPACE FOR HOPE.

The aim of the workshop is to jointly collaborate on research issues and questions that pertain to the AESOP congress theme “Making space for hope”, centered around three main themes: ethical; activist; and methodological implications.

We invite academic contributions worldwide that focus on these research questions and that take a transport, environmental, energy and/or public finance economics perspective.

Concerning civil society’s relations to economic development, among others, the following general questions of issue might be raised: • Conceptual and theoretical issues • Which tendencies of development can be observed within the Swedish and international social economy? • In what...