Technical Development of Waste Sector in Sweden: Survey

MASTER’S THESIS IN ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES RESEARCH
3 STAKEHOLDERS IN WMS
Waste management system in Sweden involves with diverse actors from multi disciplinary sectors.
Therefore, identification of stakeholders is important for tracking down the development trends of
waste sector in Sweden. Different administrative bodies who involve in nation and international
strategic development project from the planning to the implementation level are important to
understand their role. Local authority involves local people during the development plan and people
have the right to discuss and deliver their opinion. Public participation is one of the important factor
that tries to ensure in project planning phase in Sweden. Waste management system involves local
people; producers and consumers group and also involve regional, national and internationals actors
in different way. People’s value’s and practices are important in waste management system, therefore,
stakeholders identification is an important issues while planning or analyzing waste technology
development. From the literature review of the administrative structures of Sweden and analyzing
waste sector in Sweden; primarily two types of stakeholders are identified and those are,
1. National level stakeholders
Local people (producers and consumers)
Local administrative authority (i.e. Church of Sweden, Parishes or församlingar,
Municipalities or kommuner)
Local environmental regulatory body (Swedish EPA, Avfall Sverige)
Local business and monitoring firms (collection, transportation, sorting, recovery and
treatment organization )
Regional administrative authority (County Council or landsting, County Administrative Board
or länsstyrelse,)
Finance authority
Tax department (Skatteverket)
Non Governmental Organizations
Research and development organizations/ Institutes, and
2. International level stakeholders
Organizations from Nordic region
Organizations from Baltic Sea region
European Union
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
United Nations
Administrative structure in Sweden is very important while playing role in the development from the
regional level to the very local level. For example, church has significant influence to motivate local
people. Therefore, church is also a part of the administrative body. While, conducting a local or
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