Heritage Landscapes

Kryder–Reid, Elizabeth

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_388

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“…To achieve sustainable environmental planning, the whole environment must be considered, but previous research shows that historical and cultural perspectives on the landscape are often ignored [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] (The historic dimensions, "the surviving physical impacts of people on the landscape" and the cultural dimensions, "the intangible meanings, values, attributes and associations that people attach to its physical components" of landscapes [10] are integrated parts of the highly dynamic concept of heritage [11,12].…”

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The Need to Articulate Historic and Cultural Dimensions of Landscapes in Sustainable Environmental Planning—A Swedish Case Study

Eliasson

Fredholm

Knez

et al. 2022

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Ignoring the historic and cultural dimensions of landscapes makes environmental planning unsustainable, which in the long run, will have a negative impact on both the environment and society. This paper examines the work and perceptions of practitioners with a focus on the role of historic and cultural landscape dimensions and their relation to the recent implementation of the ecosystem service framework in sustainable environmental planning. Semi-structured interviews with officials at local and regional planning levels in a Swedish case study showed that the historical landscape forms the basis for environmental work. Respondents expressed an integrated view of the landscape, and historic and cultural landscape dimensions were considered important in the initial planning process. However, several challenges existed later in the planning process and final decision-making, such as conceptual ambiguities, unclear policy and assignments, limited cross-sectorial coordination and lack of awareness, knowledge, resources and other priorities. The results also show that the respondents worked regularly with intangible landscape dimensions, which can be defined as cultural ecosystem services, but they do not label them as such. Furthermore, established knowledge and expertise of heritage planning was not activated in the implementation of the ecosystem service approach. We conclude that historic and cultural landscape dimensions are not ignored in practice, but there is a need to articulate these aspects more clearly in order to achieve sustainable environmental planning. There is also an unexplored opportunity to connect skills and create new forms of cross-sectorial collaboration between heritage planning and the ES approach.

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