Wind power development in Sweden: Global policies and local obstacles

Söderholm, Patrik; Ek, Kristina; Pettersson, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2005.03.001

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“…In addition, the timeliness (length) of the licensing process may also be unpredictable (and too long) if the legislation provides only meager guidelines on how to interpret the rules. For instance, it could provide stronger incentives for stakeholders to appeal previous decisions [26]. Unfortunately, there exist no aggregate data on the frequency of appeals in industrial licensing processes.…”

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“…With reference to the principles for properly-designed environmental regulation [7], the implication of this for the efficiency of the licensing process is potentially significant. While the rules on BAT and the BREF documents provide relatively clear indications regarding what can be expected, for example in terms of emission limits and, thus, conditions for permitting, the assessment under these rules can be performed on widely divergent inducements, leading to increased uncertainty regarding both the outcome of the licensing process and its duration; e.g., [26], [49] (p. 49), [50] (pp. 45-46), [51] (pp.…”

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Industrial Pollution Control and Efficient Licensing Processes: The Case of Swedish Regulatory Design

Pettersson

Söderholm

2014

Sustainability

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Industrial pollution accounts for a large proportion of global pollution, and in the European Union, an integrated pollution and prevention approach based on individual performance standards has been implemented to regulate emissions from industrial plants. Crucial for the assessment of the licensing conditions are the Best Available Technique (BAT) requirements, which should be set in accordance with the recently introduced Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). In this paper, we review and assess the licensing of industrial plants in one of the Member States, namely Sweden. Specifically, we discuss how the existing regulations (including the IED) manage to address potential trade-offs between important regulatory design issues, such as flexibility, predictability and the need to provide continuous incentives for environmental improvements. The analysis indicates that while the EU regulations provide flexibility in terms of the choice of compliance measures, in Sweden, it enters an existing regulatory framework that adds a lot of uncertainty with respect to the outcome of the licensing processes. An important challenge for the implementation of the IED is to implement performance standards that lead to continuous incentives to improve environmental performance in industrial sectors without, at the same time, adding new uncertainties. While standards ideally should be both flexible and predictable, achieving one of these criteria may often come at the expense of the other.

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Industrial Pollution Control and Efficient Licensing Processes: The Case of Swedish Regulatory Design

Pettersson

Söderholm

2014

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“…Fredriksson, 2011;Malbert, 1998;Sandström, 2002). Furthermore, research has predominantly focused on areas such as specific aspects of the plan or the planning process, for example, how sustainability is handled in MCP (Åkerskog, 2009;Andersson et al, 2013;Guinchard, & Cars, 1997;Nilsson & Iversen, 2015;Persson, 2013), on different attachment MCPs such as wind power, rural development in shoreline areas and in-depth plans for towns and larger villages/districts (Gullstrand, Löwgren, & Castensson, 2003;Kalbro, Lindgren, & Paulsson, 2012;Khan, 2003;Söderholm, Ek, & Pettersson, 2007;Söderholm & Pettersson, 2011), on public participation (Henecke & Khan, 2002;Johansson, 2001;Malbert, 1998;Morf, 2005) and on MCP as a learning process (Elbakidze et al, 2015). Studies on how legal requirements for MCP are handled in practice are rare and mainly found in undergraduate theses and similar studies (e.g.…”

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Between protocol and reality – Swedish municipal comprehensive planning

Bjärstig

Thellbro

Stjernström

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European Planning Studies

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Between protocol and reality: Swedish municipal comprehensive planning. Spatial planning using a landscape approach has been recognized as being essential for reconciling ecological, cultural and socioeconomic dimensions in sustainable development (SuD). Although embraced as a concept, there is a lack of planning tools capable of incorporating multi-level, multifunctional and multi-sectoral perspectives, especially in a rural context. The departure point in this paper is the legal requirements for municipal comprehensive planning (MCP) in Sweden and an e-mail survey about incentives, stakeholder involvement, policy integration and implementation in MCP in all 15 Swedish mountain municipalities. The purpose of this explorative study is to examine whether MCP could be a tool in planning for SuD. Results indicate a general lack of resources and a low status of MCP that affect, and even limit, stakeholder involvement, policy integration and implementation. However, legal requirements for MCP are targeted at SuD, and municipal personnel responsible for planning appreciate the potential of MCP. Therefore, there is potential to develop the MCP into an effective landscape planning tool. To accomplish this, the status of an active planning process has to be raised, the mandate of the local planning agency has to be secured, and residents and land users have to be involved throughout the planning process. European Planning StudiesARTICLE HISTORY

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“…So-called 'national interest areas' for wind power have been identified by national authorities (in close cooperation with regional authorities and stakeholders) as a pre-selection process for wind-power sites (Ministry for Sustainable Development 2005). The actual siting and construction of such facilities has, however, still resulted in several central-local conflicts (Söderholm et al 2007;Ruud et al 2009). …”

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Environmental policy integration and energy : conceptual clarification and comparative analysis of standards and mechanisms

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Wind power development in Sweden: Global policies and local obstacles

Cited by 141 publications

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Industrial Pollution Control and Efficient Licensing Processes: The Case of Swedish Regulatory Design

Industrial Pollution Control and Efficient Licensing Processes: The Case of Swedish Regulatory Design

Between protocol and reality – Swedish municipal comprehensive planning

Environmental policy integration and energy : conceptual clarification and comparative analysis of standards and mechanisms

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