8. Strategies for managing economic decline : Hällefors - A municipality undergoing transformation

• The change of economy in Hällefors, one of many towns dominatedby a single large industrial company within traditional branches, isdescribed. In few years the large employer decreased workforcedramatically. The municipality was forced to go from one sourceof income to develop many small companies based on local opportunities.

Subject headings

LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER  -- Lantbruksvetenskap, skogsbruk och fiske -- Landskapsarkitektur (hsv//swe)

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES  -- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries -- Landscape Architecture (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Social och ekonomisk geografi -- Ekonomisk geografi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Social and Economic Geography -- Economic Geography (hsv//eng)

Keyword

industry

Park of the Masters

Carl Milles

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pop (subject category)

kap (subject category)