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Institutionalization or wither away? Twenty-five years of environmental policy integration under shifting governance models in Sweden

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  • Ã…sa Persson
  • Katarina Eckerberg
  • MÃ¥ns Nilsson

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Snapshot views of environmental policy integration (EPI) practices fail to consider the stability of EPI over time – both as aspiration and performance. This paper reviews the evolution of EPI over more than two decades at the national level in the agriculture and energy sectors in Sweden – an EPI pioneer. We study how the extent of EPI stability can be explained partly by shifting political priorities by governments and partly by underlying governance models (actors and organizational landscape and policy instruments used). Comparing the two sectors, the institutionalization of EPI appears to be stronger in the energy sector. In the agricultural sector, the current reform of the Common Agricultural Policy seems to imply decreasing prominence of EPI – due to shrinking budgets for environmental targets along with greater policy goals complexity. Overall, observed shifts in governance have been mildly conducive to EPI by providing an infrastructure, but further enhancements require clear political priority awarded to the environment.

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  • Ã…sa Persson & Katarina Eckerberg & MÃ¥ns Nilsson, 2016. "Institutionalization or wither away? Twenty-five years of environmental policy integration under shifting governance models in Sweden," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 34(3), pages 478-495, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:34:y:2016:i:3:p:478-495
    DOI: 10.1177/0263774X15614726
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