Ska ekonomin få styra miljön? : En studie om public-private partnerships

Sammanfattning: This thesis aims at investigating the two municipality’s Gislaved and Ljungby. Where the aim is to see if there is any connections, between the type and the degree of public-private partnerships, and the municipalities obtained environment performance. In this essay the starting point is that the environmental performance in the chosen municipalities is good. Interviews among local politicians and representatives for the municipalities plastic industries, has functioned as a way to test the hypothesis. Gislaved and Ljungby have thereafter been compared, in order to see if there is any similarity in the sort and the degree of public-private partnerships, and how that will affect the environmental performance.   The overall questions in this essay are: How can the cooperation among the chosen municipalities and the      local business life be described? What kind of Public-private partnership      exists in the selected municipalities? Is there any difference between the municipalities, referring to      the degree of cooperation between the municipalities and the local      business life? Does the degree of cooperation affect the progress on the environmental      performance?   The end result shows that the local business life doesn’t have any impact on the environmental performance. Although the result just stands for the examined municipalities and cannot be seen as representative for the rest of Sweden´s municipalities.