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Integrating environmental sustainability into strategic spatial planning: the importance of management

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  • Sara Gustafsson
  • Brita Hermelin
  • Lukas Smas

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Strategic spatial planning has been suggested as a means for environmental sustainability. However, there are significant challenges with operationalising and integrating policy-driven strategic spatial planning within the standardised and process-oriented management systems of local authorities. This aspect has motivated discussions on how implementation of strategic spatial planning with a focus on environmental sustainability is conditioned by management systems. The empirical case is local planning and management practices in a local authority in Sweden. Interviews with planners, together with planning and policy documents, make up the empirical material. The analysis proposes that the integration of environmental perspectives into strategic spatial planning processes depends on (i) the overall concerns for environmental issues in local policy, and (ii) how administrative management systems can facilitate transformative practice in planning. In conclusion, this article illustrates how environmental sustainability in strategic spatial planning is formed and conditioned through interplay between local policy and administrative management procedures.

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  • Sara Gustafsson & Brita Hermelin & Lukas Smas, 2019. "Integrating environmental sustainability into strategic spatial planning: the importance of management," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(8), pages 1321-1338, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:62:y:2019:i:8:p:1321-1338
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2018.1495620
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    3. Berchoux, Tristan & Hutton, Craig W. & Hensengerth, Oliver & Voepel, Hal E. & Tri, Van P.D. & Vu, Pham T. & Hung, Nghia N. & Parsons, Dan & Darby, Stephen E., 2023. "Effect of planning policies on land use dynamics and livelihood opportunities under global environmental change: Evidence from the Mekong Delta," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    4. Aurel Pera, 2020. "Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-19, September.

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