title: The development of environmental visions and strategies at the municipal level: Case studies from the county of Östergötland in Sweden.
abstract: Sweden faces a number of environmental challenges. Municipalities can play an important role in managing these challenges. Using interviews with 13 municipalities in the county of Östergötland, the manner via which environmental visions and strategies were developed and implemented, and the challenges were explored. Differences were found in the effective development and implementation of both environmental visions and strategies due to a range of factors including the range and level of involvement of different stakeholders, variation in what constituted an environmental strategy, and the time horizons employed for the visions. Suggestions for how best to overcome the barriers are outlined.
authors.affiliation: School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Weddfelt
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaccari
authors.affiliation: School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK; Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy. Electronic address: terry.tudor@northampton.ac.uk.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tudor
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D003657:Decision Making; D058735:Environmental Policy; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D013548:Sweden
keywords: Backcasting; Environmental sustainability; Participatory approaches