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Planning to grow, planning to rock on – infrastructure management and development in shrinking municipalities
Previous work on shrinking cities has mainly addressed shrinkageand its effects in large and former industrial cities and not as muchin municipalities in rural areas. In this paper, we focus oninfrastructure challenges, responsibilities, and growth strategies inSwedish municipalities. We argue that there is a tension betweenthe responsibilities connected to the municipal operations andinfrastructure challenges posed by being a shrinking municipalityon the one hand, and the ways the municipalities are planning forgrowth on the other hand. The municipalities are all strugglingwith the effects of population decline, leading to economic strainsin all areas, including infrastructure management anddevelopment, but investments in infrastructure are many timesdirected towards the establishment of specific industries such asthe tourism or mining industry with the belief of attracting newinhabitants, visitors, firms and industry. In addition, many of themunicipalities lack the capacity and jurisdiction needed to managethe infrastructure development in some areas such as fibre optics,district heating, and electricity grids. Also, in some municipalities,the populations are spread over large geographical areas but muststill provide infrastructure services to all inhabitants. ; Funding: Swedish Energy Agency [45960-1]
Planning to grow, planning to rock on – infrastructure management and development in shrinking municipalities
Previous work on shrinking cities has mainly addressed shrinkageand its effects in large and former industrial cities and not as muchin municipalities in rural areas. In this paper, we focus oninfrastructure challenges, responsibilities, and growth strategies inSwedish municipalities. We argue that there is a tension betweenthe responsibilities connected to the municipal operations andinfrastructure challenges posed by being a shrinking municipalityon the one hand, and the ways the municipalities are planning forgrowth on the other hand. The municipalities are all strugglingwith the effects of population decline, leading to economic strainsin all areas, including infrastructure management anddevelopment, but investments in infrastructure are many timesdirected towards the establishment of specific industries such asthe tourism or mining industry with the belief of attracting newinhabitants, visitors, firms and industry. In addition, many of themunicipalities lack the capacity and jurisdiction needed to managethe infrastructure development in some areas such as fibre optics,district heating, and electricity grids. Also, in some municipalities,the populations are spread over large geographical areas but muststill provide infrastructure services to all inhabitants. ; Funding: Swedish Energy Agency [45960-1]
Planning to grow, planning to rock on – infrastructure management and development in shrinking municipalities
Grundel, Ida (Autor:in) / Magnusson, Dick (Autor:in)
01.01.2023
ISI:000837647800001
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2023
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