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We use two EU directives that are relevant for municipal environmental goals and combine the activities that these directives indicate with technological abilities of digitalization, in order to formulate practical implementations of digital technology to help these activities and reach the directives\u2019 goals. We suggest that this method can be used for any municipal goal, as follows: (1) Identify the objective (in our case set by the EU-directives); (2) Identify what activities these points will require or generate; (3a) From a municipal viewpoint: Based on the results of 1 and 2, formulate and structure ideas of how digitalization can support the objectives and how those ideas can be implemented; (3b) From a provider\u2019s viewpoint: Investigate what digital solutions supporting 1 and 2 exist, or how existing services can be tweaked to support the objectives and explore how new digital solutions supporting 1 and 2 can be developed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/su10041278","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,24]],"date-time":"2018-04-24T04:44:48Z","timestamp":1524545088000},"page":"1278","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["Digitalization and Environmental Aims in Municipalities"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Tina","family":"Ringenson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Strategic Sustainability Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 114 28 Stockholm, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mattias","family":"H\u00f6jer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Strategic Sustainability Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 114 28 Stockholm, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7466-1448","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anna","family":"Kramers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Strategic Sustainability Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 114 28 Stockholm, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anna","family":"Viggedal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ericsson, Stockholm 115 41, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Mitchell, W.J. 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