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The Swedish
archipelago project
The tasks assigned to
the county administrative boards and the Council
Programmes - a part of
an ongoing process
The county administrative boards first performed regional environmental
analyses at the end of the 1980s to meet the need to describe the
environmental situation in Sweden on a continuous basis and break down the
national environmental objectives into regional ones. The regional
environmental analyses were subsequently developed into regional
environmental objectives and action programmes.At central government level,
development in archipelago areas has been examined in various contexts.
The report Sustainable Development in Sweden's Archipelago Areas (Hållbar
utveckling i Sveriges skärgårdsområden, SOU 1996:153) proposed that the
Government should instruct a number of county administrative boards,
together with municipalities and local/regional interest organisations, to
design and implement environmental programmes for the archipelagos. The
comments submitted when the report was circulated showed that greater
importance should be attached to many of the matters mentioned in the
report than has been the case hitherto in municipal planning and in the
regional environmental strategies. The Government therefore decided that
regional environmental and resource management programmes should be
elaborated.
The tasks of the
county administrative boards
The Government issued instructions to seven county administrative boards,
divided up into the following four archipelago regions:
 | Uppsala, Stockholm and
Södermanland counties
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| Östergötland and
Kalmar counties
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| Blekinge county
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| West Götaland county |
Each of these regions
were instructed to prepare an environmental and resource management
programme for its archipelago area. The programmes were presented in
December, 1999.According to the terms of reference, the environmental and
resource management programmes should include:
| concrete action to
address environmental and resource management problems in the various
archipelago areas in a manner that is satisfactory from an
environmental point of view while taking into account the need of
employment and growth
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| an analysis of the
feasibility of implementing existing legislation on the use of land
and water resources, environmental protection and the protection of
natural and cultural heritage values
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| an analysis of the
archipelagos' economic potential and eligibility for development aid,
including EU aid, for ecologically sustainable solutions
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| a coherent programme
for treatment of the area's environmental and resource management
problems in regional and local planning with a view to achieving
ecologically sustainable development. |
The archipelago regions
are to co-operate with the municipalities and local organisations etc.
involved in their work on the environmental and resource management
programmes. The regions are also to consult the competent authorities and
actively promote interaction with local Agenda 21 programmes.
The Council's task
The Environmental Advisory Council's task can be divided into two steps:In
Step One, which covered the years 1998 and 1999, the Council supported the
county administrative boards in their preparation of environmental and
resource management programmes.In Step Two, the Council evaluated the
regional environmental and resource management programmes and proposed
further measures in a report Living Archipelago (SOU 2000:67), handed over
to the Government in June 2000.
Read Summary of the report
More information, e-mail:
siv.naslund@environment.ministry.se
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