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Localizing the sustainable development goals through an integrated approach in municipalities: early experiences from a Swedish forerunner

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  • Venus Krantz
  • Sara Gustafsson

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The 2030 Agenda and its SDGs call for cross-sectoral collaboration and societal transformation. Translating these indivisible goals to the local level is an important undertaking for municipalities given their wide range of responsibilities. This paper explores SDG localization in a Swedish municipal organization, providing analyses on management practice, having an integrated approach to sustainability. Based on document studies and interviews, it reflects experiences from an early phase of SDG localization. Having an integrated approach to SDG localization was shown to be dependent on aspects such as structure, leadership and coordination, yet simultaneously flexibility, organizational learning as well as time and timing. Such an integrated approach also comes with the challenge of operationalizing the SDGs into management systems, budgets and motivating employees across organizational silos and levels. The paper concludes that the SDG framework presents an opportunity for municipalities to understand and review their organizations through a broad systems perspective on sustainability.

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  • Venus Krantz & Sara Gustafsson, 2021. "Localizing the sustainable development goals through an integrated approach in municipalities: early experiences from a Swedish forerunner," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 64(14), pages 2641-2660, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:64:y:2021:i:14:p:2641-2660
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2021.1877642
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