Understanding the Urban Sharing Economy

Sustainability and Institutionalisation

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2053-0 (ISBN)

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This book considers the potential solutions that the sharing economy offers to tackle the increasing challenges of urbanisation and sustainability facing cities. It emphasises the need for robust policies to ensure that the sharing economy supports urban sustainability and resilience by promoting more efficient and circular use of urban resources through practices like car-sharing, accommodation rentals, and the sharing of physical goods.

Understanding the Urban Sharing Economy presents a rich blend of empirical studies and theoretical insights exploring business models and the role of sharing organisations and digital platforms. Leading and emerging scholars explore the environmental implications of urban sharing and sustainability challenges in urban settings. Through interdisciplinary case studies and examples from eleven diverse cities, the book takes a holistic approach to analysing the varied governance approaches and institutionalisation mechanisms within the urban sharing economy.

This is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the urban sharing economy from economics, business, sociology, urban studies and environmental studies perspectives. Its practical examples, analytical frameworks and policy recommendations will also make this an insightful read for public administration and governance practitioners.

Edited by Oksana Mont, Professor in Sustainable Consumption Governance, The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University, Sweden

Contents
INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction to Understanding the Urban Sharing Economy 2
Oksana Mont and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan
PART I THE BUSINESS MODEL LENS: CRITICAL
PERSPECTIVES IN THE URBAN SHARING ECONOMY
2 Discontent, disappointment, and hope for a better future:
views on the utility of the business model concept in the
sharing economy 25
Jon Williamsson
3 Libraries of things: at the intersection of sharing and social
economies 42
Emily Silva and Oksana Mont
4 Expansion of urban sharing business models: a business
ecosystem view 65
Vadim Grinevich, Franz Huber, Katharina Obenholzner and
Linda Baines
PART II ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF URBAN
SHARING AND THE SUSTAINABILITY DEBATE
5 The environmental impacts of car sharing: direct and indirect
effects 87
Andrius Plepys and Ana María Arbeláez Vélez
6 Assessing sharing of household goods: tool and toy sharing in
Melbourne and Toronto 110
Oksana Mont
7 Exploring economic challenges and costs of food-sharing
initiatives 131
Vera Sadovska, Oksana Mont and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan
PART III INSTITUTIONALISATION OF URBAN SHARING
AND GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES
8 Evolution of car-sharing and its policy environment in
Melbourne, Australia 153
Luisiana Paganelli
9 Municipal governance of the sharing economy sectors: global
insights 173
Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Oksana Mont
10 How digital disruptors influence multilevel governance in the
EU: the case of Airbnb in Amsterdam 210
Isabella Bremmers-Carrasco
LOOKING FORWARD
11 The sharing economy and sufficiency 230
Oksana Mont and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan
Index 247

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Understanding series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-0353-2053-3 / 1035320533
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-2053-0 / 9781035320530
Zustand	Neuware