Strategic spatial planning for sustainable development – Swedish planners’ institutional capacity

This article advocates the need for strategic spatial planning practices to cope with crises of climate change that confront cities and regions today. Planners face sustainability challenges regarding their ability plan tomorrow. The aim this is analyse how institutional conditions can enable planners’ sustainable development in Swedish municipalities. We will use capacity as a theoretical framework understand planners instruments while development. Our empirical research builds on four municipalities where we have set out explore knowledge resources, relational resources mobilization analysing results indicate does not strive many ideas, visions initiatives development, but are often informed political agenda or prioritize. For achieving planning, more clear mandate act