Scandinavia

Abstract

When trying to sum up manifestations in rural policies and planning in Norway and Sweden on the threshold of the 1990s we meet with a complicated picture. The prospect of non-growth in industrial and social redistribution has enforced a systematic rethinking of regional policies and instruments. Special commissions have, in the 1980s, dealt with the issues in both countries. There is a lot of common ground in their recommendations, but also country-specific idiosyncracies. -Author