Sustainable Development in Regional Development Practice: A Socio-Cultural View of Evaluation

Abstract

In 1997, the Swedish government proclaimed that sustainable development (SD) should be the lodestar for all public activities (SOU 1997, 105). The following year sustainable development was explicitly introduced as an overarching aim in Swedish regional development politics (Regeringens proposition 1998). The 21 Swedish regions were thus requested to implement and integrate a new goal and perspective, namely SD, as part of their traditional responsibilities to coordinate and promote regional economic growth and employment.

Keywords

planning; evaluation; sustainable development; socio-cultural

Published in

Title: New Principles in Planning Evaluation
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

SLU Authors

• Dovlén, Sylvia

  • Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

• Hilding Rydevik, Tuija

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

UKÄ Subject classification

Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315248004-15
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-7507-5
• eISBN: 978-1-315-24800-4

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/19336