Local landscape designations in Scotland: Opportunity or barrier to effective landscape management?

Can place branding support landscape conservation in city-regions? A case study from Switzerland

“…The municipal councils do not link their LDC projects to place branding. Scott and Shannon (2007) draw the same conclusion for the Local Landscape Designations (LLD) in Scotland. The implementation of LLDs is in general very protection-oriented and has no similarity to branding activities.…”

Transdisciplinary landscape planning: Does the public have aspirations? Experiences from a case study in Ghent (Flanders, Belgium)

“…Traditional top-down perspectives have turned into support of local participation and integration (Dramstad et al, 2006;Scott and Shannon, 2007;Nijnik and Mather, 2008;Stenseke, 2009). The need for assessing the aspirations and preferences of the public for their landscapes is recognized by the EU Sixth Environmental Action Programme (EC, 2002), which is the general framework for Community action in the field of environment until 2012.…”

Heterogeneous preferences for agricultural landscape improvements in southern Finland

“…On the basis of previous discussions, there is a strong need to include citizens' perceptions in policy making (Antrop, 2004(Antrop, , 2005Eiter & Potthoff, 2007;Howley, Donoghue, & Hynes, 2012;Jones, 2007;Sang, Miller, & Ode, 2008;Scott & Shannon, 2007;Sevenant & Antrop, 2010) on the premise that this would not only enhance trust and support in decision making by authorities or agents, but also contribute to better management of agricultural areas (Raymond & Brown, 2011;Tress & Tress, 2003). The complex character of landscape decisions supports the use of the choice experiment (CE), a stated preference method that allows the marginal value of discrete landscape attributes to be estimated.…”