<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article studies the relation between territorial and functional planning by investigating the Swedish local comprehensive planning system and the forest management. The former is locally based and the latter is functionally based or sector-orientated. By interviewing planners from the County Administrative Boards responsible for monitoring the national interests in the Swedish municipalities and forest managers from the Regional Forest Agency Administration, we found out that forest- and municipality related issues that coincide or interact with each other is normally considered in the collaborative planning process based on consultations and cooperation between the involved stakeholders. Weaknesses in the collaborative planning system consists of lack of coordination between the involved legal frameworks as well as lack of local planning resources and in some cases competences.</p></abstract>

This article studies the relation between territorial and functional planning by investigating the Swedish local comprehensive planning system and the forest management. The former is locally based and the latter is functionally based or sector-orientated. By interviewing planners from the County Administrative Boards responsible for monitoring the national interests in the Swedish municipalities and forest managers from the Regional Forest Agency Administration, we found out that forest- and municipality related issues that coincide or interact with each other is normally considered in the collaborative planning process based on consultations and cooperation between the involved stakeholders. Weaknesses in the collaborative planning system consists of lack of coordination between the involved legal frameworks as well as lack of local planning resources and in some cases competences.

How Can Sweden Deal with Forest Management and Municipal Planning in the System of Ongoing Land-Use and Multilevel Planning?

Department of Geography and Economic History

Department of Geography, Media & Communication

European Countryside

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This article studies the relation between territorial and functional planning by investigating the Swedish local comprehensive planning system and the forest...

How Can Sweden Deal with Forest Management and Municipal Planning in the System of Ongoing Land-Use and Multilevel Planning?

Published Online: Apr 04, 2018

Page range: 23 - 37

Received: May 19, 2017

Accepted: Jan 10, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2018-0002

Keywords
Municipal planning, forest management, collaborative planning, multilevel governance

© 2018 Olof Stjernström et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

How Can Sweden Deal with Forest Management and Municipal Planning in the System of Ongoing Land-Use and Multilevel Planning?

Published Online: Apr 04, 2018

Page range: 23 - 37

Received: May 19, 2017

Accepted: Jan 10, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2018-0002

KeywordsMunicipal planning, forest management, collaborative planning, multilevel governance

© 2018 Olof Stjernström et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Municipal planning, forest management, collaborative planning, multilevel governance