How Can Sweden Deal with Forest Management and Municipal Planning in the System of Ongoing Land-Use and Multilevel Planning?

Stjernström Olof (), Pettersson Örjan () and Karlsson Svante ()
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Stjernström Olof: Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, Samhällsvetarhuset, SE-901 87Umeå, Sweden and Faculty of Social Sciences, Nord University, Kongens Gate 42, 7713Steinkjer, Norway
Pettersson Örjan: Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, Samhällsvetarhuset, SE-901 87Umeå, Sweden
Karlsson Svante: Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, Samhällsvetarhuset, SE-901 87Umeå, Sweden and Department of Geography, Media & Communication. Karlstad University, Universitetsgatan 2, 651 88Karlstad, Sweden

European Countryside, 2018, vol. 10, issue 1, 23-37

Abstract: This article studies the relation between territorial and functional planning by investigating the Swedish local comprehensive planning system and the forest management. The former is locally based and the latter is functionally based or sector-orientated. By interviewing planners from the County Administrative Boards responsible for monitoring the national interests in the Swedish municipalities and forest managers from the Regional Forest Agency Administration, we found out that forest- and municipality related issues that coincide or interact with each other is normally considered in the collaborative planning process based on consultations and cooperation between the involved stakeholders. Weaknesses in the collaborative planning system consists of lack of coordination between the involved legal frameworks as well as lack of local planning resources and in some cases competences.

Keywords: Municipal planning; forest management; collaborative planning; multilevel governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.2478/euco-2018-0002

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