"Now is the chance to connect the global understanding with the whole FSSD framework and really translate that operationally so we can start this journey of the grand transformation."
Professor Johan Rockström
Stockholm Resilience Centre

THE FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) comprises the following main features (Broman and Robèrt, 2016) :
  • A funnel metaphor facilitating an understanding of the sustainability challenge and the self-benefit of competent proactivity. 
  • A five-level structuring and inter-relational model distinguishing and clarifying the inter-relationships between phenomena of fundamentally different character.
  • A principled definition of sustainability useful as boundary conditions for backcasting planning and redesign for sustainability.
  • An operational procedure for creative co-creation of strategic transitions towards sustainability.
Based on systems thinking, the FSSD is a science-based, structured approach to working systematically and strategically with the complex sustainability challenge society faces. It is designed to facilitate analysis, planning, decision-making and strategic collaborative action towards sustainability across disciplines and sectors at any scale, in any context. It is a non-prescriptive framework supporting any person or organization to create a vision of their own sustainable future within their specific context. It stimulates ideas for what steps might be taken to move towards that vision, and supports prioritization of these possible steps into an economically viable change plan. The FSSD also guides selection, development and a coordinated use of supplementary concepts, methods, tools and other forms of support for strategic sustainable development.

The FSSD has been successfully applied by companies, municipalities, regional governments, and other organizations around the world to take tangible strategic steps towards sustainability.
 
For more on both the theoretical background, and several examples of application, see Broman and Robèrt, 2016. 

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FSSD & ITS APPLICATION

VIDEOS

Professor Göran Broman explains the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development.
Anna Borgeryd, owner and chairman, Polarbröd AB outlines how the FSSD is powering her company's transition towards sustainability.
Professor Johan Rockström gives an overview of the sustainability challenge and why the FSSD is a critical support in the transition towards sustainable societies.

SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH AT BTH

The Department of Strategic Sustainable Development at BTH focuses on methodological support for companies, municipalities and other organizations that want to work strategically with sustainable development, that is, organizations that want to contribute to society’s transition towards sustainability in a way that strengthens their organization.