Frames in environmental policy integration: Are Swedish sectors on track?

Abstract

This paper explores whether and how frames used within different sectors in Sweden concerned with bioenergy from forest products are driven by environmental objectives. It complements existing research on environmental policy integration (EPI) in bioenergy policies of political-administrative Swedish sectors by conducting a frame analysis of articles published in three journals in Sweden that represent the energy, agricultural and forestry sectors. Ten frames that were used consistently across the three sectors in the time period from 2001 to 2010 were identified. Environmental rhetoric, one of the prerequisites for EPI, was identified; however, it plays only a secondary role given that bioenergy frames focus mainly on economic objectives, presenting bioenergy as a means of increasing profitability.

Keywords

policy; bioenergy; environmental policy integration; forest

Published in

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
2016, volume: 34, number: 3, pages: 515-528
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD

SLU Authors

• Sjöstedt, Viveca

  • Department of Forest Products, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Kleinschmit, Daniela

  • University of Freiburg

Associated SLU-program

SLU Future Forests

Global goals (SDG)

SDG13 Climate action

UKÄ Subject classification

Economic Geography

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263774X15602895

Permanent link to this page (URI)

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