20.500.12556/DKUM-99032 Navigating between environmental and social sustainability different paths of EU electricity production transformation and their impact on household consumers electricity prices The phase-out of asbestos in urban environments represents a complex challenge across European municipalities. Despite European Union targets to achieve asbestos-free cities, implementation remains uneven because municipalities face fragmented regulations, differing inspection and disclosure requirements, limited funding, technical constraints, and variable public awareness. The paper identifies key barriers, including regulatory heterogeneity, inadequate disposal infrastructure, financing gaps, and institutional coordination challenges, alongside enabling factors such as harmonized policies, innovative treatment technologies, capacity-building programs, community engagement, and transparent governance. Based on these insights, a typology of municipal transition pathways is developed, including compliance-driven, retrofit-integrated, innovation-led, community-driven, and market-based approaches. The findings underline equity considerations, emphasizing the need to prevent disadvantaged communities from remaining disproportionately exposed to asbestos hazards. By framing asbestos removal as a material legacy transition within broader urban sustainability transitions, the paper contributes to theoretical understanding of socio-technical and ecosystem dynamics while offering practical guidance for policymakers, urban planners, and other stakeholders seeking resilient, equitable, and sustainable asbestos-free municipalities across Europe. It also highlights the importance of integrated governance, long-term financing, systematic monitoring, knowledge sharing between municipalities, stakeholder collaboration, regulatory consistency, public communication, workforce training, and continuous policy learning to accelerate safe, effective, scalable implementation across diverse European regions sustainably. renewable energy energy markets energy economics sustainable electricity production household electricity prices true false true Angleški jezik Angleški jezik Znanstveno delo 2026-07-27 12:55:14 2026-07-27 12:55:16 2026-07-28 03:08:38 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 973-996 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-07-04 620.9:338.57 283282435 286113539 10.18690/um.epf.7.2026.51 https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/sl/catalog/book/1126/chapter/1336 1 a8c4f1d1-89a9-11f1-872e-00155d0001be https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=208652 RAZ_Oslovnik_Tinkara_2026.pdf RAZ_Oslovnik_Tinkara_2026.pdf 1 055423400492FB9CD3C253D783C14253 a5924aa2a728c88e9e3aa252176adac88ebfd0427ada721e5731074a00b87e56 b976a6ae-89a9-11f1-872e-00155d0001be https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=208653 Ekonomsko-poslovna fakulteta 0 0 0