En fallstudie över miljömålsarbetet på fyra länsstyrelser : Beskrivning och analys av det regionala miljömålsarbetet i Mellansverige.

Sammanfattning: The Swedish system of environmental quality objectives is a so-called MBO, Management By Objective and has the purpose to guide the Swedish society towards sustainable ecological development. The system involves the whole society from the parliament and the government down to individual citizens. At the regional level, it is the county administrative boards that are responsible for the work with the system of environmental objectives. At the County Administrative Board of Västmanland County, it is the environmental unit who is in charge of work with the environmental objectives and they want input for how to improve their work with the environmental objectives, both internally at the Administrative Board and externally with external parties. The main purpose and goal of the study is to present the work of four other county administrative boards regarding their work with the environmental quality objectives and to identify external parties’ opinions of how they want the County Board of Västmanland county to work with them in this matter. The work is designed as a case study of four county councils, where the environmental objectives coordinators at the four county administrative boards were interviewed about their work with environmental quality objectives. External parties were also interviewed to explore their view on how they want the county administrative board to operate in a coordinating role in the system of environmental quality objectives. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed using the template-based model.  The case study of the four selected county administrative boards shows that the county administrative boards have developed their own systems using various methods and procedures for their work with the environmental quality objectives, although, the study comes to some conclusions: The number of people involved in the work with the environmental quality objectives varies between the county administrative boards It is not enough of time to work with the environmental quality objectives The numbers of environmental objectives coordinators have reduced over the past years The priority of the work with the environmental quality objectives varies between the county administrative boards None of the county administrative boards have updated regional environmental quality objectives     Currently do the external parties not have so much contact with the county administrative board of Västmanland concerning the work with the environmental quality objectives and they want to have more collaboration with county administrative board in this matter.