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- Balfors, Berit, et al.
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Strategisk miljöbedömning för hållbar samhällsplanering : Slutrapport från forskningsprogrammet SPEAK
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Strategisk miljöbedömning är en process som myndigheter och kommuner ska genomföra när de upprättar eller ändrar vissa planer eller program som antas medföra betydande miljöpåverkan. Syftet med en miljöbedömning är att integrera miljöaspekter i planen eller programmet så att en hållbar utveckling främjas.Lagstiftningen om strategisk miljöbedömning har funnits i Sverige i snart 15 år. Men hur fungerar miljöbedömning i planeringen? Det var en av frågorna i forskningsprogrammet SPEAK. Syftet med SPEAK har varit att bidra med kunskap för att stärka miljöbedömningens roll som ett verktyg i samhällsplaneringen för att uppnå miljökvalitetsmålen och främja hållbar utveckling.I Sverige har det saknats en övergripande kartläggning över de planer och miljöbedömningar som genomförts. Därför har SPEAK utvecklat, en för Sverige unik, databas med kommunala planer och tillhörande dokument såsom samrådshandlingar, SEA-dokument och särskilda sammanställningar. Baserat på en analys av miljöbedömningspraktiken har förslag på åtgärder tagits fram för att stärka miljöbedömningen som ett verkningsfullt verktyg i planeringen för hållbar utveckling.
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- Dovlén, Sylvia, et al.
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A relational approach to planning evaluation : Implementation of the European landscape convention and the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Economics and Engineering of Unpredictable Events : Modelling, Planning and Policies. - London : Routledge. - 9780367641900 ; , s. 173-199
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The increased interest in how policy and planning outcome is dependent on social processes has created demands for new approaches within the field of policy analysis and planning. We use a relational approach to investigate the development of policy communities and how policy actions are shaped through meaning-making processes and competition between discourses and priorities in two Swedish cases. The first case explores the implementation of the European landscape convention. The second, the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel, is an exceptional case with a nearly 40-years long planning process. The empirical material in both cases is document studies and in-depth interviews with actors involved in the implementation processes.The framework used for evaluation exposed challenges for inclusive policy strategies and actions, e.g. discursive tension between policy levels and policy actors and a lack of integrative public leadership. Other factors that impacted the policy processes were degree of openness of policy communities and inclusion or marginalization of perspectives and values. To conclude, our results indicates that if policy outcomes are expected to be in line with policy intentions there is a need to support implementation conditions. Doing this allows for a diversity of perspectives and values and strengthens management and public leadership.
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- Khoshkar, Sara, et al.
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Planning for green qualities in the densification of suburban Stockholm opportunities and challenges
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. - : Routledge. - 0964-0568 .- 1360-0559. ; 61:14, s. 2613-2635
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Implementing urban densification projects in planning practice while multaneously providing sufficient green spaces has proven to be allenging. Consequently, there is an increasing need for practical proaches to urban green space management in the on-going densification cities. Therefore, this study was designed to give a better derstanding of current green space management practice in two nicipalities in Stockholm, Sweden, undergoing densification. The allenges identified through interviews with municipal planners were lated to site-specific conditions for densification projects, nflicting interests between involved and affected actors, green ality management issues, and limited use of impact assessment tools. the municipalities, innovative approaches were adopted in efforts to nimize the above challenges, such as collaboration between the velopers and planners, or participatory workshops with the local tizens. This paper explores these challenges and approaches, and makes rther recommendations for improving green space management practice.
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- Wärnbäck, Antoienette, et al.
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Cumulative effects in Swedish EIA practice - difficulties and obstacles
- 2009
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Ingår i: Environmental Impact Assessment Review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0195-9255. ; 29, s. 107-115
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The importance of considering cumulative effects (CE) in the context of environmental assessment is manifested in the EU regulations. The demands on the contents of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) documents explicitly ask for CE to be described. In Swedish environmental assessment documents CE are rarely described or included. The aim of this paper is to look into the reasons behind this fact in the Swedish context. The paper describes and analyse how actors implementing the EIA and SEA legislation in Sweden perceive the current situation in relation to the legislative demands and the inclusion of cumulative effects. Through semi-structured interviews the following questions have been explored: Is the phenomenon of CE discussed and included in the EIA/SEA process? What do the actors include in and what is their knowledge of the term and concept of CE? Which difficulties and obstacles do these actors experience and what possibilities for inclusion of CE do they see in the EIA/SEA process? A large number of obstacles and hindrances emerged from the interviews conducted. It can be concluded from the analysis that the will to act does seem to exist. A lack of knowledge in respect of how to include cumulative effects and a lack of clear regulations concerning how this should be done seem to be perceived as the main obstacles. The knowledge of the term and the phenomenon is furthermore quite narrow and not all encompassing. They experience that there is a lack of procedures in place. They also seem to lack knowledge of methods in relation to how to actually work, in practice, with CE and how to include CE in the EIA/SEA process. It can be stated that the existence of this poor picture in relation to practice concerning CE in the context of impact assessment mirrors the existing and so far rather vague demands in respect of the inclusion and assessment of CE in Swedish EIA and SEA legislation, regulations, guidelines and handbooks
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- Wärnbäck, Antoienette
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EIA practice : examples of cumulative effects and final disposal of spent nuclear fuel
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is about Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) practice in Sweden. Impact Assessment (IA) is expected to play a crucial role in enabling democratic and enlightened decision making. EIA practice seems however not to be in accordance with best IA practice norms and legislation in many countries. We therefore need a more thorough understanding of IA practice and its outcomes and about what is gained through EIA and thus also be able to suggest, on a more profound basis, how the practice can be improved. This thesis presents an analysis of the two cases EIA practice on cumulative effects and the final disposal for spent nuclear fuel. The methods and approaches used are qualitatively and include literature review, document analysis, individual interviews and focus group interviews. The results were analysed using social psychology theory and community of practice theory. The case of cumulative effects clearly demonstrated that a positive attitude towards including cumulative effects was in place, but the conditions to change the knowledge base were not. In the investigated case for a final disposal for spent nuclear fuel it was revealed that a shared practice and social learning over time might result in difficulties for the authority in mapping out a clear role and identity for itself in relation to the proponent. It also showed that the shared practice that has developed between the industry, and the competent authorities, has over time resulted in the adoption of a shared understanding and similar perspectives, concerning at least two points. The first concerns downgrading the need to more thoroughly investigate alternate technical methods to the main alternative, while the second concerns the need to avoid delays in the planning process. Communication and the shared practice that has developed over a long period of time, can have a significant and not necessarily positive impact on power relations and thus hamper knowledge production, diffusion of roles and identities.
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- Wärnbäck, Antoienette, et al.
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Shared practice and converging views in nuclear waste management: long-term relations between implementer and regulator in Sweden
- 2013
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Ingår i: Environment and Planning A. - : SAGE Publications. - 0308-518X .- 1472-3409. ; 45:9, s. 2212-2226
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The international relevance of learning from nuclear waste management in Sweden cannot be underestimated as the planning process for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel in Sweden has been underway for more than thirty years. During this time the same types of actors-private, public, and NGO representatives-and even the same individuals have interacted with each other throughout. Based on a review of the implementer's Research, Development and Demonstration programmes (RD&Ds) of methods for the management and disposal of nuclear waste and interviews with representatives of the implementer, regulator, and NGOs, this paper analyses the outcomes of these long-term interactions. It then discusses the potentially serious problems this creates in relation to knowledge production in the planning and environmental impact assessment process and problems now the regulator is set to review the final application. The tendency of the values and priorities of implementer and regulator to converge over time, due to sustained social interaction, is a new phenomenon, which could not only impede the safety of nuclear waste management, but also risks occurring in other countries embarking on similar long-term processes.
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