Strategic visions for local sustainability transition: measuring maturity in Swedish municipalities

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Abstract

The use of strategic visions based on concepts like climate-neutrality, net-zero emissions and energy efficiency is important to align action and build momentum. The agency of transition actors requires clear definitions and explanations of visions, enabling operationalization for action, monitoring and measuring of results. This paper develops a maturity scale for climate-related strategic visions among local governments. Further, the maturity of Swedish municipalities’ climate-related strategic visions is reviewed. The results show that out of Sweden’s 290 municipalities, 256 shows overall low maturity in their strategic visions, not supporting their local, regional and national system actors sufficiently. Furthermore, results from workshops indicate that the roles, mandate and process for working with municipal strategic visions are not clear. There is an ambiguity around visions that is hindering aligned action and progress.

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Rosvall, M., Gustafsson, M., & Åberg, M. (2023). Strategic visions for local sustainability transition: measuring maturity in Swedish municipalities. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 25(5), 539–553. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2023.2218273

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