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- Bjärstig, Therese, 1978-, et al.
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Grön översiktsplanering i fjäll- och fjällnära landskap : Deltagande planering för en innovativ och hållbar översiktsplan för Vilhelmina kommun
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Översiktsplaneringen i fjällkommunerna skulle kunna vara det självklara verktyget i arbetet med att uppnå miljökvalitetsmålet "Storslagen fjällmiljö". Kommunen har som lokal myndighet en central roll i hållbar utveckling och översiktsplaneringen ska, per definition, hantera markanvändningsfrågor i ett landskapsperspektiv. Detta sker dock inte i någon större utsträckning idag och därför finns ett stort behov av att utveckla bättre metoder och processer för att göra det kommunala planeringsverktyget mer nytänkande, kunskapsbaserat och förutseende.I Vilhelmina kommun har forskarna tillsammans med myndigheter, lokala aktörer och kommunmedborgare utvecklat metoder för att ta fram en grön översiktsplan. Översiktsplanen baseras på uthållig markanvändning och omfattar faktiska natur- och kulturvärden, såväl som nuvarande och framtida förutsättningar för strategisk planering för hur olika intressen kan samsas i fjällandskapet. I projektet analyseras möjligheter och hinder en process av detta slag möter, metoder för att uppnå ett ökat engagemang och en större lokal medverkan i planprocessen.Arbetet med den gröna översiktsplanen har resulterat i ett samrådsdokument som antagits av politikerna i Vilhelmina kommun. Rapporten redovisar en stegvis modell av planeringsprocessen som ska kunna ligga till grund för liknande processer även i andra fjällkommuner och/eller landsbygdskommuner med stora landskaps- och naturtillgångar. Exempel på lärdomar är att tidigt och kontinuerligt förankra det deltagande planeringsarbetet gentemot den lokala politiken och att deltagandeprocesser måste få ta tid.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, 1978-, et al.
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Implementing collaborative planning in the swedish mountains : The case of Vilhelmina
- 2018
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Ingår i: WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment. - Southampto : WIT Press. - 9781784662912 ; , s. 781-796, s. 781-795
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Critical appraisals have stressed the need for participation and social learning in spatial planning, and planning is now seen as a process of innovative collaboration by multiple actors. During such ‘collaborative planning’, various parties try to develop new inclusive strategies through dialog. Collaborative planning is a major strand of current planning theory and highlights the need for new methods that involve citizen participation. In Sweden, the realization of collaborative planning in practice remains elusive, and research on the subject is limited, so further studies are needed. Thus, in the project “Green planning: Vilhelmina as a testbed for innovative land use planning in the mountain region”, we tested and implemented methods for involving citizens and other land-use stakeholders in the process of developing Vilhelmina municipality’s comprehensive plan (MCP). This paper presents lessons learned from that process and data obtained from a set of focus groups, a workshop, surveys, and personal communication. From these activities in the Swedish mountain region, we learned that collaborative practices have both pros and cons that must be addressed for practical realization of the widely embraced ideal of collaborative planning.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Is large-scale wind power a problem, solution, or victim? A frame analysis of the debate in Swedish media
- 2022
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Ingår i: Energy Research & Social Science. - : Elsevier. - 2214-6296 .- 2214-6326. ; 83
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Media content analysis was used with the aim of developing an understanding of how the debate on large-scale wind power has played out over time in Sweden, especially in relation to the enactment of national interest areas for wind power. Covering the period 1999 to 2019 and using NVivo for coding and analysis, we reviewed a total of 788 articles in both national and regional daily newspapers. To identify which actors are present in media and how they frame large-scale wind power, we conducted a frame analysis by applying three theoretical elements developed by previous media studies. The first is a diagnostic element used to pinpoint the cause to a problem, the second a prognostic element used to pinpoint the solution to a problem, and the third a motivating element used to identify the person(s) or object(s) suffering from the problem, that is, victim. Our results emphasize that wind power in recent years has been framed as a solution more often than a cause to a problem. One prevailing framing is the localization of large-scale wind power per se and conflicts with other land-uses and national interests. We also identify a tension between international and national policy objectives and local implementation of large-scale wind power. Governmental agencies are the most common framers over time, together with individuals (e.g. locals and second home owners) and wind entrepreneurs. Importantly, whereas politicians and wind entrepreneurs most often frame wind power as a solution, individuals frame it as a cause to a problem.
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- Eckerberg, Katarina, 1953-, et al.
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Incentives for collaborative governance : top-down and bottom-up initiatives in the Swedish mountain region
- 2015
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Ingår i: Mountain Research and Development Journal. - 0276-4741 .- 1994-7151. ; 35:3, s. 289-298
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Governance collaborations between public and private partners are increasingly used to promote sustainable mountain development, yet information is limited on their nature and precise extent. This article analyzes collaboration on environment and natural resource management in Swedish mountain communities to critically assess the kinds of issues these efforts address, how they evolve, who leads them, and what functional patterns they exhibit based on Margerum's (2008) typology of action, organizational, and policy collaboration. Based on official documents, interviews, and the records of 245 collaborative projects, we explore the role of the state, how perceptions of policy failure may inspire collaboration, and the opportunities that European Union funds have created. Bottom-up collaborations, most of which are relatively recent, usually have an action and sometimes an organizational function. Top-down collaborations, however, are usually organizational or policy oriented. Our findings suggest that top-down and bottom-up collaborations are complementary in situations with considerable conflict over time and where public policies have partly failed, such as for nature protection and reindeer grazing. In less contested areas, such as rural development, improving tracks and access, recreation, and fishing, there is more bottom-up, action-oriented collaboration. State support, especially in the form of funding, is central to explaining the emergence of bottom-up action collaboration. Our findings show that the state both initiates and coordinates policy networks and retains a great deal of power over the nature and functioning of collaborative governance. A practical consequence is that there is great overlap—aggravated by sectorized approaches—that creates a heavy workload for some regional partners.
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- Svensson, Johan, et al.
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Landscape approaches to sustainability : aspects of conflict, integration and synergy in national public land-use interests
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 12:12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Strong land-use pressure challenges sustainable development and calls for landscape approaches that balance economic, ecological, and socio-cultural aspects and interests. In the boreal, sub-alpine, and alpine regions in Sweden, encompassing 32 million ha, many and different land-use interests overlap, which causes risks for conflict, but potentially also suggests integration and synergy opportunities. Based on geographic information system (GIS) analyses of geographically delineated national interests regulated in the Swedish Environmental Code, including, amongst others, Natura 2000, contiguous mountains, recreation, reindeer husbandry, and wind power, and based on forestry as a dominating land use, we found extensive overlap among similar but also between dissimilar types of interest. In some mountain municipalities, our results show that the designated national interest area is four times as large as the available terrestrial area. Moreover, the overlap is much higher in the alpine than in the boreal biome, and there is increasing designation for nature conservation and a decreasing designation for national interests for culture, recreation, and tourism from south to north. We interpret the results with reference to multiple-use needs and opportunities for landscape approaches to sustainable planning. Departing from biodiversity conservation values, we also discuss opportunities to focus planning strategies on assessing synergy, integration, and conflict based on nature-based and place-based land-use characteristics.
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- Thellbro, Camilla, et al.
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Readiness and planning for more wind power : municipalities as key actors implementing national strategies
- 2022
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Ingår i: Cleaner energy systems. - : Elsevier. - 2772-7831. ; 3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the global context of rapidly developing wind-power technology, local governments have to balance local interests with larger scale targets when implementing national and international strategies. An implication of a new Swedish national strategy for wind-power development is considerable intrusion into natural resource-rich northern landscapes, where municipalities already strive to manage diverse surface demanding and legally valued land-use interests. Municipalities will thus play a key role in wind-power development. Results of our survey suggest that most municipalities have functioning wind-power plans, linked to their municipal comprehensive planning (MCP). However, so far, relatively few wind-power farms have been established, and municipalities have rarely used their right to veto, suggesting that most have not yet experienced significant problems linked to wind-power development. The municipalities rely on their right to veto, and only a third highlighted planning as a tool for handling the increasing demand for wind-power developments. Legislative changes regarding the right to veto and the status of MCP could affect local self-government considerably. Wind-power development could have major consequences for local landscapes and governments, and a municipal-wide policy regarding future wind-power development and MCP as a mediating tool must be secured to balance local interests with national ambitions.
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- Zachrisson, Anna, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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EIP-Agri – lärdomar från första åren : Halvtidsrapport från den löpande lärande utvärderingen av EIP-Agri med fokus på dess införande och uppstart
- 2019
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- EIP-Agri är ett nytt innovationsstöd inom landsbygdsprogrammet med fokus på jordbruk, trädgårds- och rennäring. Två typer av stöd kan beviljas: stöd för att bilda en innovationsgrupp samt stöd till att genomföra ett innovationsprojekt (med full finansiering). Inom ramen för utvärderingen har främst rutiner, regler, roller med mera vid införandet av detta nya stöd undersökts, och olika typer av genomförandeproblem, samt hur de förebyggs och/eller undviks, analyserats.Gruppbildnings- och genomförandestödMöjligheten att söka gruppbildningsstöd är en stor styrka. Regeringen börse över om detta kan utökas/stärkas ytterligare i kommande programperiod. Genomförandestödet upplevs som krävande att söka och Jordbruksverket börta fram en specifik e-ansökan. Kraven bör sänkas något, för att t ex öka flexibiliteten kring budgeten. Förtydligade beslutskriterier bör göras mer tillgängliga. Innovationssupporten kan rikta mer stöd mot resurssvaga aktörer för att öka antalet som går vidare från grupp- till genomförandestöd. Sociala och organisatoriska innovationer är mycket få och borde uppmuntras i högre grad. Kopplingen till forskningsprojekt kan stärkas.Handläggningen av ansökningarEn majoritet av de sökande är övervägande missnöjda med ansökningsprocessen, då handläggningstiden är lång och kraven på ansökan höga med många kompletteringar. Sen utbetalning av medel upplevs också som ett hinder för många. Här måste fortsatta insatser till för att effektivisera och förkorta handläggningen internt på Jordbruksverket samt i relation till innovationssupportens rådgivning.Roller och samordningRollfördelningen mellan Jordbruksverkets handläggare, Rådgivande urvalskommittén och innovationssupporten har diskuterats internt och förtydligats allteftersom. Särskilt samordningen och erfarenhetsutbytet har stärkts. Tolkningen av begreppet innovation och beslutskriterier varierar fortsatt något, men samstämmigheten i vad som kommuniceras till sökande har gradvis förbättrats. Fortsatt kalibrering och interaktion är dock nödvändig.Koppling till andra innovationssatsningarBegränsad information om EIP-Agri har nått innovationskontoren. EIP-Agri bör kommuniceras via andra/kompletterande kanaler. Erfarenheter från andra liknande innovationsprogram bör också komma EIP-Agri till del för att utveckla möjliga synergier och säkra att innovationerna kommer ut på marknaden. Målgruppen för och syftet med EIP-Agri bör därmed förtydligas och kommuniceras mer strategiskt.Planerad effektutvärderingUnder 2019–2021 förväntas utvärderingen svara på frågor om programmetbidragit till relevanta innovationer i relation till målen. Nuvarande rapportering liksom de breda och otydliga målen samt kriterierna ger dock begränsade möjligheter att värdera dessa effekter. Utvecklade datasystem och förtydligade mål och kriterier krävs.
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- Zachrisson, Anna, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Participatory comprehensive planning to handle competing land-use priorities in the sparsely populated rural context
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Rural Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0743-0167 .- 1873-1392. ; 88, s. 1-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rural areas supply the planet's natural resources while simultaneously harbor refuges for most of the world's remaining biodiversity and intact, resilient ecosystems. Since traditional extractive activities must increasingly co-exist with non-exploitative activities such as tourism and conservation, sustainable land use planning is essential for managing trade-offs between incompatible interests in rural areas. With "communicative planning" being promoted since decades, participation is considered crucial for reconciling different planning interests. However, the implementation of participation remains patchy and uneven, not least in sparsely populated regions with low capacity where participation could be a game-changer. Here, we consider municipal comprehensive planning as an existing arena to explore participatory planning approaches potentially capable of simultaneously managing competing land uses and promoting sustainable development in sparsely populated rural contexts. Collaborative work between researchers and public managers resulted in the co-development of an approach based on qualitative village- and interest-based focus groups that facilitated the formulation, negotiation, and legitimization of concrete and detailed local guidelines that prioritize between different land uses. Consequently, the resulting comprehensive plan draft was more readily adopted than the output of a traditional planning process. We found that citizens in sparsely populated municipalities seem willing to actively contribute to rural development processes if they have significant influence.
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- Zachrisson, Anna, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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When Public Officers Take the Lead in Collaborative Governance : To Confirm, Consult, Facilitate or Negotiate?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. - 2001-7405 .- 2001-7413. ; 22:4, s. 21-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Governments are investing considerable time and resources in the field of collaborative governance as it proliferates throughout many sectors, and how public officers choose to respond to these developments therefore becomes an important question. The increased public involvement that collaborative governance brings is often more costly than traditional forms of governance, while the outcomes are highly uncertain. For these reasons, it is important that collaborative governance is only used when really warranted, and the various forms that it can take should be carefully designed. In this study, we apply a typology of collaboration strategies to examine firstly, the circumstances under which leading officers at four county administrative boards in the Swedish mountain region decide to lead collaboration, and secondly what collaboration strategies they then apply. This study is based on 20 interviews with key officers, and 39 interviews with project leaders of public-private collaborations in the area of natural resource management in the region. We find that officers should take trust levels into account when designing collaboration strategies, not least the lack of official trust. Strategies are found to be not mutually exclusive but complementary, and officers employ several at the same time. Interestingly, the results of this study show that – somewhat counter-intuitively – distrust is a driver for officers to initiate collaboration, a conclusion which questions the common view that more trust unequivocally translates into more participation.
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- Bergsten, Klara, et al.
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En preliminär studie av samverkan kring den pågående miljöprövningen av vattenkraft : lärdomar inför de fortsatta processerna
- 2023
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Energiöverenskommelsen från 2016 slår fast att alla Sverigesvattenkraftverk ska förses med moderna miljövillkor. Idagsläget bedrivs många anläggningar med gamla tillståndmed lägre satta miljökrav än vad som behövs för att uppfyllanationella miljökvalitetsmål och EU:s vattendirektiv (Prop.2017/18:228; Prop. 2017/18:243). För att uppfylla dagensmiljökrav kan det i vissa fall komma att kräva att kraftverkenminskar sin produktion. Samtidigt har vattenkraften encentral roll i det svenska elsystemet – en roll som förstärksi och med samhällets elektrifiering och det ökade behovetav fossilfri el. Ambitionen är att moderna miljövillkor skasäkerställa både största möjliga nytta för vattenmiljön samtidigtsom en effektiv tillgång till vattenkraftsel bibehålls.Hela miljöomprövningen väntas ta omkring 20 år. För atteffektivisera och göra den komplexa processen mer legitim har kollaborativ styrning i form av samverkan mellan olikaintressenter introducerats.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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A struggling collaborative process : revisiting the woodland key habitat concept in Swedish forests
- 2019
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0282-7581 .- 1651-1891. ; 34:8, s. 699-708
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The term woodland key habitat (WKH) was launched in Sweden in 1990. Definitions for the concept have changed over the years, and today the WKH concept and its application are issues of debate in Sweden. Consequently, the Swedish Forestry Agency (SFA) initiated a collaborative process including forest stakeholders with the purpose to clarify the application and develop the inventory methodology of WKH. We have studied, by means of interviews and observations, participant perceptions of how endogenous and exogenous factors affect the collaborative process. During our research, we identified three game changers: the pause in WKH registration in northwestern Sweden that caused several participants to drop out of the process; budget allocations for new nationwide WKH inventories that put the process on hold; and formal instructions from the government that came nine months later and essentially re-initiated the collaborative process. Altogether, this not only affected the participants’ abilities, understanding and willingness to participate, but also the overall legitimacy of the process – indicating the difficulty of conducting policy development in collaborative form, especially when it is highly politicized since it impact on the participants’ anticipation of the process and its end results.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, 1978-, et al.
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Between protocol and reality : Swedish municipal comprehensive planning
- 2018
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Ingår i: European Planning Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0965-4313 .- 1469-5944. ; 26:1, s. 35-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Spatial planning using a landscape approach has been recognized as being essential for reconciling ecological, cultural and socioeconomic dimensions in sustainable development (SuD). Although embraced as a concept, there is a lack of planning tools capable of incorporating multi-level, multifunctional and multi-sectoral perspectives, especially in a rural context. The departure point in this paper is the legal requirements for municipal comprehensive planning (MCP) in Sweden and an e-mail survey about incentives, stakeholder involvement, policy integration and implementation in MCP in all 15 Swedish mountain municipalities. The purpose of this explorative study is to examine whether MCP could be a tool in planning for SuD. Results indicate a general lack of resources and a low status of MCP that affect, and even limit, stakeholder involvement, policy integration and implementation. However, legal requirements for MCP are targeted at SuD, and municipal personnel responsible for planning appreciate the potential of MCP. Therefore, there is potential to develop the MCP into an effective landscape planning tool. To accomplish this, the status of an active planning process has to be raised, the mandate of the local planning agency has to be secured, and residents and land users have to be involved throughout the planning process.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Collaboration as a policy instrument in public administration : evidence from forest policy and governance
- 2024
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Ingår i: Environmental Policy and Governance. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1756-932X .- 1756-9338.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent decades, collaboration has become a common policy instrument in public administration, both internationally and in Sweden. Inspired by scholarly literature on collaborative governance, the aim of this study is to analyze the crucial role of public administration in the design and implementation of collaborative governance. Drawing on several years of research on Swedish forest policy and governance, our work is based on extensive empirical material, including 88 semi-structured interviews, observations, written comments from open public consultations and actors, enacted policy documents, open public hearings and a survey. Our results confirm that factors related to process design strongly affect the outputs and outcomes of collaboration in public administration. We assert that public officials should meticulously design and adapt the collaborative process during its initiation and progress, according to the policy problem and actors' incentives and motivations to participate. However, despite good intentions by public officials, the overarching priorities and contextual factors governing the policy area must be set by elected decision makers at an early stage to establish democratic accountability and high levels of policy legitimacy and acceptance. A major implication for public administration is that the increasing use of collaborative governance may be highly inefficient if it is difficult for participants to draft shared objectives and provide intended outputs because of low levels of trust, and different interpretations of knowledge and norms. Finally, in contentious policy areas, such as forest policy, political priorities must sometimes be set by elected decision makers rather than through collaborative processes.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, 1978-
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Does collaboration lead to sustainability? : A study of public–private partnerships in the Swedish mountains
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - Basel, Switzerland : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 9:10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The conflicts that are frequently manifested in the Swedish mountains often stem from the use and preservation of natural resources: resistance against protected area proposals, protests concerning the management of large carnivores, felling of old-growth forests, and disputes over who should be allowed to hunt or fish are commonplace. There are currently strong trends, both in national and international policy making, towards leaning on various forms of collaborative governance arrangements to deal with such policy failures. Consequently, various forms of partnerships have been initiated to promote more sustainable practices in mountain regions of Sweden. But to what extent does the creation of collaborative arrangements in natural resource management improve policy output and sustainability outcomes? To examine the issue, data was extracted from 47 semi-structured interviews with 39 project leaders and eight county officials, the sample being randomly selected from a database of 245 public-private collaborative projects in the Swedish mountains. The results indicate that partnerships do lead to improved sustainability – especially when it comes to social outcomes. There is, however, a need for more systematic follow-ups by practitioners, particularly on ecological outcomes where the country administrative boards should take a leading role and facilitate such evaluations in the future.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, 1978-, et al.
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Forest social values in a Swedish rural context : The private forest owners' perspective
- 2016
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Ingår i: Forest Policy and Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 1389-9341 .- 1872-7050. ; 65, s. 17-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The sustainability paradigm of the European Landscape Convention calls for increased involvement of all affected parties in combination with active leadership to promote social values. As a result, the Swedish Forest Agency (SFA) has requested further development of methods for broad consultation and active participation in order to strengthen the social values of forests. This paper aims to identify in particular the private forest owners' perceived need for collaboration and dialog regarding the social values of forests. The study's primary empirical data was derived from interviews with 40 private forest owners. A framework developed by Emerson et al. (2012) was applied to facilitate analysis of the forest owners' perceptions of procedural and institutional arrangements, existing leadership, the current level of knowledge and access to different types of resources. The paper identifies a need for the SFA to become more proactive and assume more of a leading role. The level of knowledge regarding social values was found to be quite low among the majority of the private forest owners. They wanted more information; they asked for increased support and advice, and they wanted to see improved coordination rather than collaboration on social values.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, 1978-, et al.
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(How) Can adaptive moose management contribute to sustainable rural development?
- 2013
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Ingår i: Welcome to the Anthropocene! The Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, 11‐13 June 2013. - : University of Copenhagen. ; , s. 154-154
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The concept of adaptive management (AM) is widely advocated as an alternative to traditional top-down management of natural resources around the world. In Sweden, however, AM has only recently been introduced to manage moose. Based on the analytical framework, developed by Pieter Glasbergen (2011), we study the AM of moose as a case of a partnership arrangement within the field of wildlife governance. We put particular attention on how adaptive moose management enables sustainable rural development, since hunting is considered to be an important source of recreation and livelihood in Swedish rural areas. We identify a number of challenges associated to the involved stakeholders’ abilities, willingness and understanding to implement the induced management system. We also emphasis the interactions between the different stakeholders on both vertical and horizontal levels, as well as the tradeoffs the new ecosystem based adaptive local management system generates for rural and urban areas.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, 1978-, et al.
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How to Influence Forest-Related Issues in the European Union? Preferred Strategies among Swedish Forest Industry
- 2013
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Ingår i: Forests. - Basel : MDPI. - 1999-4907. ; 4:3, s. 693-709
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although forestry is not a regulated area in the European Union (EU), numerous decisions in other policy areas are related to forestry. However, its position outside of formal policy-making can result in the fact that actors, such as those within the forest industry, may have a larger role when compared to other policy sectors where the state system has an integrated role. This explorative study reviews the ways in which the forest industry in Sweden, one of the EU states with the most forest land, tries to protect and promote its interests on an EU-level. It concludes that a main way to influence decision-making in the EU is through lobbying, through its own organisations and through the transnational trade association, The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI). The study shows that collectively conducted lobbying is largely preferred which means that internal communication is important since lobbying at the EU-level is potentially limited by the diverging positions of trade association members as well as among the different trade associations themselves.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Jämställd viltförvaltning : En studie av Svenska Jägareförbundets utbildningssatsning och förutsättningarna för en ökad kvinnorepresentation
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Jämställdhetspolitiken har sedan mitten av 1970-talet haft en central ställning i den svenska offentliga debatten. Ett område där frågan om kvinnlig representation först på senare tid har uppmärksammats är inom jakt och viltförvaltning. Denna rapport bygger på följeforskning som genomförts 2019-2021 i anslutning till Svenska Jägareförbundets (SJF) projekt “Jämställd viltförvaltning”. Projektets planering, genomförande och utfall utvärderas, och synen på kön, sociala normer och mångfald bland deltagarna i projektets utbildning ”Älgförvaltning, ekologi och människa” undersöks. Det huvudsakliga empiriska materialet utgörs av skriftliga svar på tre frågor som deltagarna besvarat, en kurs- respektive processutvärdering, samt deltagande observationer. Centrala frågeställningar är om, och i så fall på vilket sätt, de kvinnliga och manliga deltagarnas synsätt skiljer sig åt och vilka implikationer detta ger för jämställdhetsarbetet och en ökad kvinnorepresentation. Vi diskuterar hur deltagarnas synsätt kan förstås och länkar detta till kön och genus; en möjlig förändring av könsroller och sociala normer; samt en ökad mångfald inom älgförvaltningen. Vad gäller deltagarna så råder en stor enighet att det finns kvinnliga respektive manliga egenskaper, men delade meningar om dessa främst är biologiska eller socialt konstruerade. En majoritet anser att det sker anpassning till en manlig norm och vi identifierar tre huvudsakliga normer: prestationsnormen, arbetsfördelningsnormen och hårdhetsnormen. Det är dock nästan uteslutande kvinnliga deltagare som ger mer specifika beskrivningar av normer och normanpassningar. När det gäller mångfald så anser en majoritet av deltagarna att arbetet i älgförvaltningsgrupperna påverkas i positiv riktning av en större mångfald. Rapporten lyfter vikten av fortsatt forskning om förändring av könsroller och normer, samt av mångfald inom viltförvaltningen. Fortsatta utbildningsinsatser inom SJF behövs för att nå uppsatt mål om ökad kvinnorepresentation. Utbildningen bör därför revideras och ges på nytt, men då rekommenderas att jämställdhet ges samma tyngd som övriga delar i utbildningen, och utgör ett examinerande inslag. Andra mer övergripande rekommendationer inför SJF:s fortsatta jämställdhetsarbete innefattar ett aktivt ledarskap inom organisationen vad gäller jämställdhetsfrågor, översyn av potentiellt exkluderande strukturer, att genom ett normkritiskt förhållningssätt arbeta för att synliggöra förgivettagna sanningar, ifrågasätta normer och könsroller etc. och på så sätt bättre förstå och även potentiellt kunna påverka rådande kultur och traditioner, etablering av kvinnliga mentorer och nätverk, samt en översyn av rekryteringsrutiner inför framtida nomineringsomgångar till landets älgförvaltningsgrupper.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, 1978-, et al.
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Partnerships implementing ecosystem-based moose management in Sweden
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Ingår i: International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2151-3732 .- 2151-3740. ; 10:3, s. 228-239
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is undergoing an extensive transformation from single species management towards ecosystem-based management. This study analyses the implementation of the new moose management system, focusing on the newly formed partnerships at ecosystem level (the moose management areas) and their potential to ease conflicts between participants and develop into sustainable collaborations that enable ecosystem-based management. Empirical evidence was obtained from semi-structured interviews with involved actors (hunters, landowners, wildlife managers and forest consultants) in five Swedish counties. Several challenges, based on the participants’ abilities, willingness and understanding needed to implement the new management system, were identified. Lack of funding, unclear roles and responsibilities appear to be the most serious issues. If these are not properly solved, then they have the potential to hamper and aggravate the implementation of the new management system, that is, the ecosystem-based management, as well as the partnership arrangement.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, 1978-, et al.
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Public-private partnerships in a Swedish rural context : A policy tool for the authorities to achieve sustainable rural development?
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Rural Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0743-0167 .- 1873-1392. ; 49, s. 58-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become a popular tool for governing rural development in a European context. PPPs are often presented as significant solutions for increasing both the effectiveness (problem-solving capacity) and the legitimacy of sustainable rural governance in terms of participation and accountability. In Sweden, where PPPs have played a marginal role, due to the EU cohesion policy they are now gaining ground as a model for the governance and management of natural resources in rural areas. Previous research shows that the state remains crucial in governing the process of governance through partnerships, especially in a rural as opposed to an urban context, where the state plays an ongoing role in initiating, structuring, financing and regulating partnerships. Is this an example of the state trying to counterbalance the increased power of the private sector, or the opposite – that is, an attempt to reduce social exclusion and increase participation by promoting the interest of private actors in local development processes? Our study examines the critical role of the state in these partnerships. We focus on authorities in charge of natural resource management and rural development and assess the enabling role of the authorities in rural areas with a weak or dispersed private sector. Empirical data is collected via group interviews at a workshop in which key representatives from the authorities participated. We identify a number of potential challenges associated to PPPs in a rural context, and in light of this we clarify how the authorities engage in different types of partnership arrangements, as well as their capacity to facilitate these partnerships in attempt to enhance sustainable rural development.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Removing the glass ceiling in Swedish wildlife management? : A norm-critical study of the potential for more gender-equal moose management groups
- 2023
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Ingår i: Human Dimensions of Wildlife. - : Routledge. - 1087-1209 .- 1533-158X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This empirical study investigates how "gender is done" within Swedish wildlife management by identifying prevailing gender norms, and how gender norms can be challenged from a norm-critical perspective, in order to promote women's participation. The basis for the study is an ongoing evaluation of the Swedish Hunters' Association training initiative to increase women's participation in moose management groups. Three main norm categories are identified: performance; social interaction; and hunting as a lifestyle. Recommendations for continued gender equality work include active leadership in gender equality issues, a review of potentially excluding structures, promoting female mentors and networks, and the use of formal and transparent recruitment procedures. An understanding of norms affecting women's participation (or nonparticipation) in wildlife management is fundamental to design effective training, recruitment and nomination strategies in the future.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, 1978-, et al.
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Social values of forests and production of new goods and services : the views of Swedish family forest owners
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Ingår i: Small-scale Forestry. - Dordrecht : Springer. - 1873-7617 .- 1873-7854. ; 17:1, s. 125-146
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Forests are considered crucial assets for sustainable rural development, and contemporary forestry is an industry where production, environmental and social goals can – and should – be handled simultaneously. Swedish family forest owners (FFOs) are expected to both manage and conserve their forests for the benefit of the whole country, but there are contradictions between development and conservation and between traditional and alternative forms of utilization, representing dilemmas in rural areas. Tensions between urban and rural areas, between demands on what to produce and protect, are often linked to the FFOs’ views on opportunities for forest management. The aim of this study is to identify and analyse the extent to which FFOs perceive that social values have the ability to generate “new” goods and services as a supplement or alternative to traditional forestry, and to suggest how the forests might be managed to render high social values. Fifty-seven interviews were conducted with FFOs (both resident and non-resident). The results indicate that regardless of where they reside, FFOs have a multifunctional view of their forests and forest management, that the social values attached to forests can play an important role in the development of local recreation- and forest-based tourism activities, and in this respect they can enhance sustainable rural development. It is, however, not obvious who might start and develop these businesses, since there seems to be a lack of interest among the FFOs themselves.
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- Bjärstig, Therese, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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The Institutionalisation of Sami Interest in Municipal Comprehensive Planning : A Comparison Between Norway and Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Indigenous Policy Journal. - : University of Western Ontario. - 1916-5781. ; 11:2, s. 1-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Sami are recognized as an Indigenous people and a national minority in both Norway and Sweden, and their involvement in any planning concerning their traditional territories is required. The aim of this article is to examine how Sami interests are secured and institutionalized in municipal comprehensive planning (MCP). We use two case study areas: Sortland municipality in Norway and Vilhelmina municipality in Sweden. Analysis of various qualitative materials indicates that, despite contextual and institutional differences, the planning processes in the case study areas have similar outcomes. We conclude that formal rights of the Sami are not always acknowledged by the politicians who make the final decision. Rather, the Sami depend on the politicians’ willingness to consider their needs.
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- Camilla, Brattland, et al.
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Positivt med et råd for tradisjonell kunnskap for Tanaelva
- 2024
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Ingår i: Ságat. - 0805-536X. ; :2024-05-07
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Det har den siste tiden vært en del innlegg om lakseforvaltninga i Tanavassdraget i Ságat, og klima- og miljøminister Bjelland Eriksen har også kommentert bruken av tradisjonskunnskap i forvaltningen av Tanavassdraget i spørretimen på Stortinget.På spørsmål fra Lars Haltbrekken (SV) om statsråden vil ta initiativ til å opprette et råd for Tanaelva for tradisjonell kunnskap, var svaret at «spørsmålet om å opprette et eget råd for tradisjonell kunnskap om Tanavassdraget har tidligere vært diskutert med lokale rettighetshavere og Sametinget. Dette er noe jeg og departementet vil vurdere videre. Det pågår også forskning på nettopp hvordan tradisjonell kunnskap kan bedre integreres i forvaltningen av Tanavassdraget, gjennom det norsk-finsk-svenske Recosal-prosjektet. Det vil være naturlig å avvente hvilke resultater og anbefalinger som kommer fra dette prosjektet og hvordan disse eventuelt kan bidra til å styrke forvaltningen av Tanavassdraget».Recosal-prosjektet ledes av det finske naturressursforskningsinstituttet (LUKE), og de norske partnerne i prosjektet er Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA) og UiT – Norges arktiske universitet. Umeå Universitet i Sverige er også partner i prosjektet. Prosjektets mål er å bidra til gjenoppbygging av laksebestandene i Tanavassdraget basert på både vitenskapelige metoder og lokal og tradisjonell kunnskap.En del av motivasjonen for dette forskningsprosjektet er den mangeårige kritikken av mangelen på inkludering av tradisjonell kunnskap om laks i forvaltningen, og da særlig i Tanavassdraget. I denne konteksten er alle gode forslag om hvordan lokal og tradisjonell kunnskap bedre kan integreres i kunnskapsgrunnlaget for forvaltning svært velkomne. At det foregår en demokratisk prosess (at det har vært «diskutert» tidligere) om oppretting av et råd for tradisjonell kunnskap, som Bjelland skriver, er derfor positivt. Spørsmålet fra Haltbrekken, som har vært stilt mangfoldige ganger i ulike varianter og fra ulike hold, er derfor både betimelig og presserende.Vi deltar i flere forskningsprosjekter som berører lakseforvaltning og tradisjonskunnskap om laks generelt, og i Tanavassdraget spesielt. Forskere i NINA deltar også i Vitenskapelig råd for lakseforvaltning, og i forsknings- og overvåkingsgruppa for Tanavassdraget, noe som blant annet innebærer jevnlig innhenting av lokal kunnskap om status for ulike fiskebestander i sidevassdragene og i hovedelva i Tanavassdraget. Forskningsprosjektet Recosal er et uavhengig prosjekt finansiert av det europeiske forskningsprogrammet Biodiversa+, som betyr at mandatet for forskningen ikke kommer fra myndighetene, til forskjell fra mandatet til forsknings- og overvåkingsgruppa.Som forskere som er på leting etter legitime prosedyrer og måter å inkludere denne kunnskapen både i egen forskning og i forvaltningssystemet, vil eksistensen av et formelt råd for tradisjonell kunnskap være positivt for forskning, overvåking og forvaltning av vassdraget. Hvordan dette rådet skal se ut, hvem det skal bestå av, hvilken rolle det skal ha i forskning og i beslutningsprosesser osv., er også relevant å undersøke videre. Det finnes flere modeller for dette som tidligere forskningsprosjekter på samme tema har undersøkt, og som Recosal-prosjektet også er i gang med å undersøke.Det har allerede kommet forslag til hvordan departementet kan få til en bedre inkludering av lokal og tradisjonell kunnskap fra flere hold, og vi ser liten grunn til at ytterligere anbefalinger fra akkurat vårt forskningsprosjekt Recosal kommer til å gjøre en stor forskjell.En god grunn måtte da være at rådet vil komme fra en gruppe forskere hvor medlemmer av forsknings- og overvåkingsgruppa for Tanavassdraget er aktive medlemmer i prosjektet. I så tilfelle er det interessant at departementet venter på råd fra akkurat denne gruppa, og ikke agerer på funn fra annen forskning som har påpekt behovet for oppretting av klare og legitime prosedyrer for inkludering av lokal og tradisjonell kunnskap i forsknings- og forvaltningsprosessene.Recosal-prosjektet er i et stadium av sitt prosjekt hvor vi arbeider med å innhente godkjenning (såkalt Free, Prior and Informed Consent) fra Sametingene i Finland og Norge til å gjøre forskning langs Tanavassdraget.Denne godkjenningen krever en prosess for å innhente kollektivt samtykke fra sentrale fiskefellesskap, Tanavassdragets fiskeforvaltning og andre aktører langs vassdraget til forskning på lokal og tradisjonell kunnskap.Så langt har denne prosessen vært lærerik, og tidkrevende. Vi tror at en institusjonalisering av slike samtykke-prosedyrer ville gjort forskningsprosjekter på Tanavassdraget langt mer legitime og berikende enn i dag.Et råd for tradisjonell kunnskap som kunne håndtert slike prosesser for kollektivt samtykke kan være en god måte å løse dette på. Som forskere stoppes vi imidlertid av at det er ulike og motstridende prosedyrer for å innhente disse samtykkene, og for å etablere gode og kollaborative forskningssamarbeid.I prosjektet Recosal prøver vi oss frem med ulike tilnærminger, men det er ikke vår rolle å etablere strukturer og prosedyrer for forskningssamarbeid omkring lokal og tradisjonell kunnskap, eller å bestemme hvem som er de legitime partnerne langs vassdraget. Derfor vil også vi spørre statsråden om han vil ta initiativ til å opprette et råd for tradisjonell kunnskap, som vil gi innhenting av lokal og tradisjonell kunnskap langs vassdraget gode og forutsigbare rammer for fremtida.La oss med en gang slå fast at det ikke er vår rolle som forskere å stå i veien for demokratiske prosesser om prosedyrer for inkludering av lokal og tradisjonell kunnskap i forvaltningsprosesser. Om departementene i Norge og Finland, Sametingene og Tanavassdragets fiskeforvaltning og de finske fiskefellesskapene er i gang med å lande beslutninger om et råd for tradisjonell kunnskap støtter vi dette helhjertet og ser frem til å etablere gode samarbeidsrelasjoner mellom våre forskningsmiljøer og et slikt råd i fremtiden.
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Att planera för hela skogslandskapet : utmaningar och möjligheter
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Skogens många värden behöver samplaneras och sättas i sitt sammanhang utifrån ett landskapsperspektiv. Vi intervjuade skogsägare och skogliga intressenter om hur de ser på skogens värden, äganderätten och skogspolitiska förutsättningar, samt synen på att samarbeta och ta hänsyn till varandras intressen. Vi utgår från behov identifierade i planeringsprocesser som inkluderar många deltagare och intressen, när det gäller att förbättrakommunikation, information och mötesplatser. Vi ser tre möjliga verktyg för att skapa förutsättningar för ett landskapsperspektiv i planeringen av skogens värden: en landskapslots, en samverkansarena, samt utformningen och användandet av skogsbruksplanen.
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Opportunites for Integrated Landscape Planning : the Broker, the Arena, the Tool
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Ingår i: Landscape Online. - 1865-1542. ; 55, s. 1-20
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- As an integrated social and ecological system, the forest landscape includes multiple values. The need for a landscape approach in land use planning is being increasingly advocated in research, policy and practice. This paper explores how institutional conditions in the forest policy and management sector can be developed to meet demands for a multifunctional landscape perspective. Departing from obstacles recognised in collaborative planning literature, we build an analytical framework which is operationalised in a Swedish context at municipal level. Our case illustrating this is Vilhelmina Model Forest, where actual barriers and opportunities for a multiple-value landscape approach are identified through 32 semi-structured interviews displaying stakeholders’ views on forest values, ownership rights and willingness to consider multiple values, forest policy and management premises, and collaboration. As an opportunity to overcome the barriers, we suggest and discuss three key components by which an integrated landscape planning approach could be realized in forest management planning: the need for a landscape coordinator (broker), the need for a collaborative forum (arena), and the development of the existing forest management plan into an advanced multifunctional landscape plan (tool).
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At the limit of volunteerism? : Swedish family forest owners and two policy strategies to increase forest biodiversity
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Ingår i: Land use policy. - : Elsevier. - 0264-8377 .- 1873-5754. ; 105
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is not on track to meet its own national 2020 environmental goals for sustainable forests. Due to the deliberate design of Swedish forest policy, private forest owners’ voluntary forest and biodiversity protection efforts are required to help close the policy gap. Using survey data from Swedish family forest owners, this paper outlines how forest owner attitudes reveal challenges and opportunities for two general strategies to increasing forest and biodiversity protection. The first strategy is attempting to institute changes within status quo Swedish forest policy by relying on family forest owners to make such changes voluntarily. The second strategy is encouraging management changes by using policy reforms. Our qualitative results suggest that Swedish forest policy is close to the limit of what can be accomplished with volunteerism alone and likely requires policy reforms to close its forest and biodiversity protection gap on family-owned forests.
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- Eckerberg, Katarina, 1953-, et al.
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Collaborative approaches for sustainable development governance
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Ingår i: Handbook on the governance of sustainable development. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781789904314 - 9781789904321 ; , s. 175-189
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- The challenges of environmental and sustainability governance such as dealing with competing goals, multiple interest perspectives and inherent wicked problems increasingly call for collaborative approaches in planning, policy-making, and public management. The collaboration of a diverse mix of public and private organizations is expected to bring resources, knowledge, and perspectives that may reconcile conflicts and improve policy effectiveness. As such, collaborative environmental governance contains considerable promises, seeking to restore trust in government. In this chapter, we will depict how collaborative environmental governance has emerged in current environmental and natural resource policy practice, and discuss the underlying premises for fruitful collaboration. The concept brings in ideas from a range of literatures on planning and policy studies, and overlaps considerably with the concept of network governance. We portray some of the most prominent analytical approaches to collaboration in environmental governance, and end with a section on practical implications and future research challenges.
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Devolving power from the state : local initiatives for nature protection and recreation in Sweden
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Ingår i: Local Environment. - : Routledge. - 1354-9839 .- 1469-6711. ; 25:6, s. 433-446
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- Quests for devolving more power to local actors for nature protection stem from both international and national policies. Also, there is a growing recognition of the need for local governments to promote green infrastructure for citizens to recreate and learn about their environment. Starting in 2004, the Swedish government has allocated special funding towards these goals through the Local Nature Conservation Programme (LONA). Virtually all Swedish municipalities have received such funding in pursuit of facilitating wide access to nature and promoting recreational activities, including the protection of nature areas, creating pathways, information devices, and promoting these areas among new societal groups to enjoy. This study presents the results of ten years of experience with LONA. A survey with respondents from 191 municipalities and 20 county administrations, together with 20 key informant interviews, show that the programme has been a success in several respects. Not only have most municipalities created a wealth of new ways to engage local organisations and citizens in nature conservation and recreation, but they have also broadened the ways they think about how nature is important to their constituencies. Due to innovative ways to count voluntary work as local matching of funding, smaller and less resourceful municipalities have also become engaged. Still, the local needs for further initiatives are deemed considerable. State support coupled with knowledge sharing is important to show policy priority to such bottom-up initiatives.
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Genomförande av innovationsstöd i landsbygdsprogrammet 2014–2020 : Slutrapport för en löpande lärande utvärdering av EIP-Agri
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- I landsbygdsprogrammet går det att få stöd för att skapa innovationer inomjordbruks-, trädgårds- och rennäringen. Innovationsstödet kallas EIP-Agri (European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability) och genomförs i många av EU:s medlemsländer. Målet med EIP-Agri-stödet är att skapa innovationer som bidrar till att öka konkurrenskraften på den svenska landsbygden och uppfylla nationella miljö- och klimatmål. Stödet handläggsav Jordbruksverket och kan sökas i två steg: som ett gruppstöd för att bilda en innovationsgrupp som förberedelse för en påtänkt innovation och som ett genomförandestöd för ett planerat innovationsprojekt. Totalt har EIP-Agristödet hittills omfattat 440 miljoner kronor i Sverige.I den här slutrapporten presenterar vi vår utvärdering av EIP-Agri-stödet i Sverige. Utvärderingen har pågått 2016–2021 och varit löpande lärande, vilket innebär att vi följt och analyserat arbetet med stödet och fört en dialog med berörda tjänstepersoner. I utvärderingens första fas fokuserade vi på själva ansöknings- och beslutsprocessen genom att intervjua involverade tjänstepersoner inom EIP-Agri och samla in uppgifter från de som sökt stöden genom en enkät. Vi intervjuade även personer på landets innovationskontor. I den andra fasen gjorde vi enbredare utvärdering av EIP-Agri-stödets möjliga och upplevda effekter baserat på litteraturstudier, intervjuer med ytterligare nyckelpersoner och fallstudier avgenomförda grupp- och genomförandestöd. Rapporten redogör också för hur EIP-Agri hanteras och hur kunskapsutbyte sker i en europeisk kontext. Slutligen diskuterar vi våra erfarenheter av löpande lärande som utvärderingsform och lämnar våra rekommendationer för framtida arbete.Blandade erfarenheter av handläggningsprocessenhos de som sökt stödetAnalysen av ansöknings- och beslutsprocessen visar bland annat att1. rollfördelningen mellan handläggare och berörda beslutsfattare på Jordbruksverket samt innovationssupporten på Landsbygdsnätverket varotydliga till en början men har formaliserats allteftersom, och tolkningen avbegreppet innovation bland dessa aktörer är föremål för fortsatt diskussioninom EIP-Agri2. majoriteten av de som sökt stödet är missnöjda med ansökningsprocesseneftersom handläggningstiderna varit långa och det funnits många krav påkompletteringar3. möjligheten att söka gruppstöd är en styrka som kan utökas ytterligare,medan kraven på genomförandestödet bör ses över4. EIP-Agri-stödets koppling till andra innovationssatsningar har varit mycketbegränsad, men det finns stora möjligheter till samverkan.Svårt att mäta stödets effekter i samhälletAnalysen av EIP-Agri-stödets effekter försvåras av att det finns en stor mängd mål formulerade på olika nivåer som inte går att utvärdera och mäta effekterna av med den information som finns i EIP-Agris databas. Utvärderingen visar att många av de enskilda innovationsprojekten anser sig ha uppnått sina mål, men de vidare effekterna i samhället vad gäller ökad konkurrenskraft och nationella miljö- och klimatmål har inte gått att utvärdera.Samverkan och breda nätverk framhålls som viktigaframgångsfaktorerUtvärderingen visar att breda kompetenser inom innovationsgruppen är en viktig förutsättning för framgång. Det är alltså viktigt att både forskare och praktiker ingår och samverkar i innovationsgruppen, något som ofta – men kanske inte alltid – är fallet. Det saknas dock idag en strategisk koppling mellan EIP-Agri och relevanta forskningssatsningar. Likaså bör gruppernas kompetenser längre ut i marknadskedjan stärkas ytterligare.En annan faktor är vikten av nationella och internationella nätverk. Vissa sådana nätverk har använts, och interna EIP-projektträffar har varit uppskattade. Men nätverken behöver utvecklas och kopplas samman i större utsträckning för att stödja nytänkande, något som brister i dagens kunskaps- och innovationssystem.Slutligen är det viktigt att en ny innovation når marknaden för att få effekt isamhället. Men marknadstillträde kan EIP-Agri-stödet inte finansiera, vilket gör att man måste söka flera olika stöd. Det behöver därför skapas möjligheter tillsynergier mellan olika myndigheters innovationsstöd.
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- Eckerberg, Katarina, 1953-, et al.
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Learning through on-going evaluation of EIP-Agri in Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the XXVII Congress. Uneven processes of Rural Change: On Diversity, Knowledge and Justice. - Krakow. - 9788394777500 ; , s. 186-188
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Eckerberg, Katarina, 1953-, et al.
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Steering 'green' innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-AGRI in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. - : Elsevier. - 2210-4224 .- 2210-4232. ; 48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article critically examines the state's steering capacity of ‘green innovation’ programs using Sweden's implementation of the agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) as a case representing part of the EU's Green Deal. The innovations should promote the competitiveness of rural areas and contribute to national environmental protection and climate goals.We found that despite expectations, implementation rests on compartmentalized networking within the agricultural sector, prioritizing increased ‘competitiveness’ before ‘green’ development, and interpreting ‘innovation’ mainly in the technical sense. The results indicate that the state´s steering capacity of ‘green innovation’ programs meets several obstacles: the overall goals from the top tend to be both too many and too vague, leaving it to the administration to interpret what kinds of features should be prioritized from below. The state's steering in the case of EIP-AGRI relies mostly on internal agricultural expertise contrary to previous research that suggests a recent ‘de-compartmentalisation’ of European agricultural policymaking.
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- Hallberg-Sramek, Isabella, et al.
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Framing woodland key habitats in the Swedish media : how has the framing changed over time?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0282-7581 .- 1651-1891. ; 35:3-4, s. 198-209
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The concept of woodland key habitats is well-established in northern Europe, denoting sites in the forest landscape with particularly high biodiversity. In Sweden, woodland key habitats have been inventoried on individual forest owner’s land by the Swedish Forest Agency since 1993. Recently, various actors have questioned the woodland key habitat concept and its policy implications. To investigate how framing of the concept has changed over time we conducted a media analysis based on theories of collective action frames. The analysis covered the period 1991–2018 and a total of 293 articles in daily newspapers. Our results showed that, over time, woodland key habitats have mostly been framed by government agencies, journalists and environmental organizations as suffering as a result of forestry practices and that nature conservation is the solution to this problem. Actors presenting other or conflicting frames are not as common and they occur mostly when the frequency of articles is high. However, it is noteworthy that individual forest owners sometimes framed themselves as suffering economically from the woodland key habitats, which contrasts with the dominant framing. There were no large differences between national and regional newspapers in the framing of woodland key habitats.
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- Hansson-Forman, Katarina, 1991-, et al.
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A view through the lens of policy formulation : the struggle to formulate Swedish moose policy
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. - London : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1523-908X .- 1522-7200. ; 23:4, s. 528-542
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Policy formulation refers to how problems identified in the agenda-setting phase transform into government programs. As the process of designing policy alternatives expresses and allocates power among different interests, policy formulation affects both implementation and outcomes. This paper examines the Swedish moose policy of 2010, revealing that the policy portrays the issue of moose as an ecological problem, while motivations for adopting policy measures are largely described in economic terms. Because of this incongruity, the policy may not achieve its goals. Furthermore, implementation principles stemming from different design strategies clash in the attempt to incorporate both local and ecosystem-based levels of management into a single system, leaving the policy implementation with many uncertainties and tensions. To deliver the policy’s goal, the government could consider clarifying the operationalization of the ecosystem-based management approach and identifying the prerequisites necessary for building capacity, dealing with strong stakeholders, and ensuring fair representation of key actors. Future research should further explore the consequences of policy imbalances in relation to intended goals, the importance of understanding the rationales and design strategies underpinning implementation principles, and the need to discuss operationalization of EBM in relation to different types of objects of management and to issues of scale.
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- Johanna, Johansson, et al.
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Att samsas om samma skog - effektiva samverkansprocesser
- 2020
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Samverkan som styrmedel kan leda till högre tillit mellan medborgare och myndigheter, ökad legitimitet för politiska beslut samt bättre förutsättningar för att nå gemensamma mål i förvaltningen. Men det finns flera fallgropar som bör undvikas om processerna ska bli effektiva. Läs mer i Future Forests policy brief Att samsas om samma skog - effektiva samverkansprocesser.
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- Johansson, Johanna, 1983-, et al.
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Samverkan om skogen förutsätter ledarskap för långsiktig hållbarhetsomställning
- 2022
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Ingår i: Skogens värden. - Sundsvall : Mittuniversitetet. - 9789189341708 ; , s. 106-107
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Konflikter, meningsskiljaktigheter och motstånd. Ofta framträder debatten om skogen som en svårlöst kamp med skilda värderingar om vad som är ett långsiktigt hållbart skogsbruk, vem som har tolkningsföreträde över nyttjandet, samt vilken kunskapssyn som ligger till grund för skogspolitiska beslut och praxis. Ibland är debatten även ett uttryck för skilda erfarenheter av att leva och bo på landsbygden respektive i urbana stadsmiljöer. De senaste åren har förhandlingar om nya strategier och lagförslag om skogen arbetats fram, inte bara i Sverige utan även i Europeiska unionen inom ramen för klimat- och miljöpolitiken. Förväntningarna på hur skogen bör brukas och vad den ska leverera till samhället, vilken roll skogen har i klimatomställningen och vem som ska bestämma vilken skog som är mest skyddsvärd, är frågor som i allt större utsträckning tycks avgöras utanför Sveriges gränser. Samtidigt fortsätter den skogspolitiska debatten i Sverige. Allt oftare hörs röster som kräver att politiken ska dra en tydlig gräns för när skogen är en privat eller en gemensam resurs; Stärk äganderätten! eller Låt skogen stå! Det pågår en intensiv diskussion gällande skogspolitikens jämställda mål om produktion och miljö, inte minst om målen uppnås främst genom frivillighet eller lagstiftning, eller om målen ens är möjliga att uppnå på samma mark. Vem eller vilka bestämmer egentligen om och hur skogen ska brukas och bevaras? Hur går det till när olika aktörer samverkar om mål, medel och framtiden för skogens nyttjande? Och varför är det så svårt att komma överens, ibland till och med om vad som är en skog?
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- Johansson, Johanna, 1983-, et al.
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Vägar till effektiva samverkansprocesser : styrning, deltagande och dialog inom skogspolitikens ramar
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I den här rapporten belyses olika perspektiv på samverkan med utgångspunkt i befintlig kunskap om samverkansprocesser främst utifrån ett skogligt perspektiv. Forskning inom ramen för Future Forests, men även andra forskningsmiljöer, har visat att samverkansprocesser har en rad fördelar men att de också är förknippade med ett antal fallgropar. Rapporten pekar på såväl bakgrunden till varför samverkan blir allt vanligare inom politik och förvaltning, vad som egentligen avses med samverkan samt hur man skapar så goda förutsättningar som möjligt för samverkansprocesser.
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