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Against a background of decades of spatial class segregation in Sweden and elsewhere, and with the Swedish city as our empirical base, we demonst rate how class position effects residents' life chances defined here as heaith, security, participation, and education. By comparing the circumstances of affluent neighbourhoods in both cities with those of disadvantaged neighbourhoods we elucidate important changes in a modern city's class hierarchy like increased social polarization. We conclude, firstly, that those neighbourhoods that change class position do so slowly and are becoming predominantly middle class. Secondly, we show that the situation in both cities' low income neighbourhood category varies dramatically. Finally, and in contradiction with mainstream urban theory, we infer that growing social inequality is not always detrimental to the lives of residents in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT In the corporate quest for sustainable development, production- and product-related environmental impacts of a company can form a basis for defining the corporate environmental profile, as well as for defining environmental leaders. Awareness of the production- and product-related dimensions of the environmental profile varied among companies. This paper studied descriptions and reporting of environmental issues among 19 companies ranked as Global Supersector Leaders in 2009/2010 by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). The results show that all of these companies are aware of production- and product-related environmental aspects. There are also examples, both as headings on websites and as sections in sustainability reports, where companies structure their environmental initiatives separately with respect to production (or their own operations) and the product. The paper ends with a proposed model of corporate environmental profile. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In both policy and research, civic engagement and citizen participation are concepts commonly used as important dimensions of social sustainability. However, as migration is a global phenomenon of huge magnitude and complexity, citizen participation is incomplete without considering the political and ethical concerns about immigrants being citizens or non-citizens, or 'the others'. Although research on citizen participation has been a frequent topic in local government studies in Sweden, the inclusiveness and exclusiveness of terms used in the context of local political engagement, which are addressed in this article, has not received attention. This article examines the Swedish case by analyzing information provided by the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and by websites of all 290 municipalities as well terms used in selected research publications on local participation. Additionally, this article studies the effectiveness of municipal websites in providing information to their residents about how they can participate in local democracy. The results show that the term citizen is commonly and incorrectly used both by local authorities and the Association. The article concludes that the term citizen is a social construction of exclusiveness and the use of the term citizen should be avoided in political and civic engagement except for the limited topics that require formal citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]