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Integrering av klimataspekter i politiska beslut - en fallstudie av Svensk transportpolitik

Johansson, Fanny LU (2012) STVK01 20112
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Is it possible to integrate contradictionary goals like economic growth, social development and at the same time protect the environment?
This essay’s aim is to contribute to the field of environmental policy integration. Due to the author’s Lenshow and Jordan, Sweden is a country that has been integrating environmental policy for a long time and is not as sensitive as many other countries to different political preferences (Jordan & Lenschow 2010:148ff). Sweden can therefore be seen as a favourable case and due to the Most-likely method: if the theories about environmental policy integration cannot be applied to the Swedish political context, it is likely that it has deficiencies in other cases to. The case of Sweden is studied through... (More)
Is it possible to integrate contradictionary goals like economic growth, social development and at the same time protect the environment?
This essay’s aim is to contribute to the field of environmental policy integration. Due to the author’s Lenshow and Jordan, Sweden is a country that has been integrating environmental policy for a long time and is not as sensitive as many other countries to different political preferences (Jordan & Lenschow 2010:148ff). Sweden can therefore be seen as a favourable case and due to the Most-likely method: if the theories about environmental policy integration cannot be applied to the Swedish political context, it is likely that it has deficiencies in other cases to. The case of Sweden is studied through the transportation politics and two governmental bills, from two different governments, the Socialdemokraterna in 1998, and the Alliance parties in 2008.
There seem to be some environmental policy integration in both bills and coordination mechanism like the Swedish environmental qualitative goals, and the sector responsibility seems to have an importance. The international policy context and the use of environmental knowledge can also be important aspects in explaining the environmental policy integration (Less)
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author
Johansson, Fanny LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK01 20112
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Environmental policy integration, transportation politics, economic growth
language
Swedish
id
2275570
date added to LUP
2012-02-14 20:56:03
date last changed
2012-02-14 20:56:03
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  abstract     = {{Is it possible to integrate contradictionary goals like economic growth, social development and at the same time protect the environment? 
This essay’s aim is to contribute to the field of environmental policy integration. Due to the author’s Lenshow and Jordan, Sweden is a country that has been integrating environmental policy for a long time and is not as sensitive as many other countries to different political preferences (Jordan & Lenschow 2010:148ff). Sweden can therefore be seen as a favourable case and due to the Most-likely method: if the theories about environmental policy integration cannot be applied to the Swedish political context, it is likely that it has deficiencies in other cases to. The case of Sweden is studied through the transportation politics and two governmental bills, from two different governments, the Socialdemokraterna in 1998, and the Alliance parties in 2008. 
There seem to be some environmental policy integration in both bills and coordination mechanism like the Swedish environmental qualitative goals, and the sector responsibility seems to have an importance. The international policy context and the use of environmental knowledge can also be important aspects in explaining the environmental policy integration}},
  author       = {{Johansson, Fanny}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Integrering av klimataspekter i politiska beslut - en fallstudie av Svensk transportpolitik}},
  year         = {{2012}},
}