This project was undertaken by the Stockholm Environment Institute in collaboration withthe Department of Political Sciences at Umeå University and Environmental StrategiesResearch at the Royal Institute of Technology. The purpose of the Roundtable was toexplore outstanding issues in the quest for more coordinated or integrated policies acrossdifferent policy areas, with a focus on environmental integration and its institutional andpolitical implications.
Participants included 15 international scholars on policy integration(including the Swedish research team), and around 10 officials from key agencies andministries in the Swedish government, out of a total of 25 participants.
Brief keynote presentations set the scene for discussions, reporting on the key results andlessons emerging from the research on environmental policy integration and practice inSweden and the EU. After this, a facilitated Roundtable panel discussion took place.
This report is an attempt to distil the key messages and ideas that emerged in theRoundtable. The next chapter recounts the opening statement by the State Secretary.After this, three chapters synthesise the scene-setting presentations.
The first is the presentation by Måns Nilsson and Katarina Eckerberg of the findings of the ‘PIntS’ project, which has examined the processes of Environmental Policy Integration (EPI) innational policymaking in Sweden.
The second is a brief account of how policy integrationworks in practice in central government in Sweden. In the third presentation, AndreaLenschow and Andrew Jordan give an international view, looking at trends and lessonson EPI across a range of OECD countries. The penultimate chapter recounts the keydiscussions and messages emerging from the Roundtable panel discussions.
In the final chapter, Susan Owens provides a few concluding remarks about where she thinks EPIis really heading and about how and where progress lies ahead.
Locality: Europe
ISBN: 978-91-976022-4-2
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