To reach a sustainable society where the environmental problems are solved, Sweden has formulated 16 Parliamentary Environmental Objectives (Environmental Objectives Portal 2011). The basis for these new modes of governance is that sectors and stakeholders must take more responsibility for reaching the national environmental targets. However, problems with an objective oriented environmental management of complex issues are that the objective is often vaguely defined and is hard to down-scale to the regional and local level. The need to develop management tools for complex systems initiated a project to map structures and interactions between stakeholders and to analyse how processes within the objective frame influence the management ability. The project used the environmental objective "A Magnificent Mountain Landscape" (MML) as a case.
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