Local government planning for community sustainability in municipal peripheries: insights from the inland north of Sweden

Albert Brunet Johansson, Dean B. Carson, Doris A. Carson, Frida Jonsson and Anna-Karin Hurtig

Planning Practice & Research, 2026, vol. 41, issue 3, 576-598

Abstract: This paper investigates municipal government initiatives targeting ‘local development’ and community sustainability in municipal peripheries in rural Västerbotten, Sweden. Analysing planning documents, we identify 142 initiatives from 2022 to 2023 using a social determinants of health (SDH) framework, particularly focusing on labour, business development, technology adoption, municipality-business collaboration, supporting village associations, and alternative modes of service delivery. We conclude that municipalities are attempting to support individual villages and place-based communities in determining their own development paths across all SDH domains, suggesting a shift from central-place to decentralised planning models.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2025.2594479

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