Sustainability Developments in Municipalities—What, Why, and How

• The purpose of the study is to contribute to an increased understanding of different SDGs in some regions and local communities in Sweden. The aim of the study is also to create an increase in our understanding of the SDGs by comparing communities with different structures and results. The framework consists of sustainable development, Agenda 2030, the stakeholder model, legitimacy theory, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). The study has been carried out with a qualitative method and an abductive approach. Semi-structured interviews were also used to collect some of the data material. Furthermore, the study has also been based upon official statistics concerning 16 local communities as well as three regions in Sweden. We have limited the study to some comparable data representing the recent situation on two levels, i.e., representing different regions as well as local communities. Our main aim is to analyze the different outcomes in these regions and local communities. A limited number of SDGs has been used together with a few numbers of interviews in three of these local communities. In total we have analyzed five of these interviews. Secondly, we have analyzed the official data for different SDGs in Sweden. Here we have used the latest public data for some of the SDGs, both for three regions as well as for sixteen local communities within these regions. Therefore, the results are based upon comparisons of the work in these local communities as well as three regions in Sweden. Furthermore, we have limited our comparisons to six of the 17 SDGn for the regions as well as five for the local communities. The SDGs we compare in our study are no poverty, the life-span of women and men in different communities, the number of individuals which have post-secondary education higher than ordinary school, to what extent the broadband has been developed and finally the number of individuals born outside Sweden. Our main focus is to compare the regions as well as the local communities. Finally, we have made some conclusions which we see as being of great importance for how to proceed in the future to increase our understanding of how one could improve the use of Agenda 2030 and its SDGs.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)

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