Protected area governance in Sweden: new modes of governance or business as usual?

Holmgren, Lina; Sandström, Camilla; Zachrisson, Anna

doi:10.1080/13549839.2016.1154518

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“…The program was launched by the government in 2006 with the mission to work with issues regarding the documentation, maintaining and spreading of local and traditional knowledge, as well as to initiate research. In addition, the Swedish government also approved a new local administrative organization for the World Heritage Laponia, where the Sami have a large influence (Zachrisson, 2009;Reimerson, 2015;Holmgren et al, 2017). While comparing the two country reports, Norway has come much further in its implementation of the CBD with regard to both targets compared to Sweden.…”

Section: Problems Associated With Production Of Rationalities Of Rulementioning

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Knowledge Claims and Struggles in Decentralized Large Carnivore Governance: Insights From Norway and Sweden

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Ensuring sustainable carnivore populations while simultaneously sustaining active and viable pastoral communities often creates conflicts that are difficult to resolve. This article examines how different knowledge systems meet and interact in large carnivore governance in Norway and Sweden. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including observations in meetings, public documents, reports and interviews, in addition to local and national newspaper clippings and internet sites, we study two processes of regional carnivore management (Nordland, Norway and Jämtland, Sweden). We explore how different forms of knowledge have been mobilized, reproduced, transferred and legitimized in policies and regulations in these two processes. Furthermore, we examine the interplay between scientific and experience-based knowledge at different levels and scales in both countries. In Norway, "clear zoning" has been established as a basic management instrument to achieve national "population goals" for carnivores. We show how the locally situated knowledge-in our account represented through the Regional Large Carnivore Committee (RLCC), which includes political parties' and Sami Parliament representatives-experiences real barriers by being overruled by the national Ministry of Climate and Environment, 2016 in their process of revising the carnivore management plan (CMP). In Sweden where the management of large carnivores is devolved to regional authorities and stakeholder-based Wildlife Management Delegations (WMDs), attempts to regionally solve conflicts are often overthrown by the national environmental protection agency or through court cases initiated by the environmental movement. Hence, compromises that potentially could solve conflicts are undermined. The analysis shows that while carnivore governance in both countries are founded on decentralized management authority at the regional level, local actors struggle for their views, experiences and knowledge to be acknowledged and counted as valid in the management process. While the decentralized management

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Section: Problems Associated With Production Of Rationalities Of Rulementioning

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Knowledge Claims and Struggles in Decentralized Large Carnivore Governance: Insights From Norway and Sweden

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“…These initiatives were, however, largely expert-driven from the top and down (cf. Gambert 2010;Holmgren, Sandström, and Zachrisson 2017). LONA is the Swedish government's largest investment so far to achieve increased local engagement with nature conservation and recreation, in line with international environmental agreements.…”

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“…Devolving powers downwards from central to local authorities are also justified by more democratic solutions in decision-making, and the desire that local communities should have a say in issues that they themselves are most affected by (Baldersheim and Ståhlberg 2002;Falleth and Hovik 2009). Rescaling "downwards" within the state has occurred especially in environment and sustainable development policy (Gibbs and Jonas 2000), protected area governance (Gambert 2010;Holmgren, Sandström, and Zachrisson 2017) and urban parks management (Speller and Ravenscroft 2005). Providing improved access for local citizens to enjoy green areas close to their neighbourhood is an example of such an issue.…”

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Devolving power from the state: local initiatives for nature protection and recreation in Sweden

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Quests for devolving more power to local actors for nature protection stem from both international and national policies. Also, there is a growing recognition of the need for local governments to promote green infrastructure for citizens to recreate and learn about their environment. Starting in 2004, the Swedish government has allocated special funding towards these goals through the Local Nature Conservation Programme (LONA). Virtually all Swedish municipalities have received such funding in pursuit of facilitating wide access to nature and promoting recreational activities, including the protection of nature areas, creating pathways, information devices, and promoting these areas among new societal groups to enjoy. This study presents the results of ten years of experience with LONA. A survey with respondents from 191 municipalities and 20 county administrations, together with 20 key informant interviews, show that the programme has been a success in several respects. Not only have most municipalities created a wealth of new ways to engage local organisations and citizens in nature conservation and recreation, but they have also broadened the ways they think about how nature is important to their constituencies. Due to innovative ways to count voluntary work as local matching of funding, smaller and less resourceful municipalities have also become engaged. Still, the local needs for further initiatives are deemed considerable. State support coupled with knowledge sharing is important to show policy priority to such bottom-up initiatives.

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“…Collaboration is a process which takes time and requires effort from all stakeholders to be successful, to build trust, to learn together, and to establish mutual goals [54][55][56]. A fruitful collaboration between actors enhances the capacity of agencies and communities to manage common resources in multifunctional landscapes [57,58]. Thus, it is strongly suggested that collaboration is an important means to handle conflicts between stakeholders [59,60].…”

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Negotiating Improved Multifunctional Landscape Use: Trails as Facilitators for Collaboration Among Stakeholders

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Trails are significant features in landscapes, and many ancient pathways have developed into routes of great importance for recreation and tourism in contemporary societies. Nevertheless, international research on recreational trails has hitherto mainly focused on managerial and environmental aspects of trails and less on trails from a social science perspective, such as conflict management. This study explores the role of recreational trails as a potential tool for managing conflicts in a multifunctional landscape. The findings originate from a case study of the southern Jämtland mountain region in Sweden, an area where land-use conflicts exist and where tourism is a major concern. The study examines the recreational trail as an applied example where actors in the mountain landscape “negotiate” and collaborate. Through the recreational trail, dialogue and discussions are made possible among stakeholders. Findings show that trails can function as facilitators for communication and can thus enhance the possibilities of building trust and promoting collaboration between actors. This research contributes to the existing literature on handling multiple land-use interests and adds to previous knowledge by taking on a rather new approach, where the recreational trail becomes a facilitator for communication.

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Protected area governance in Sweden: new modes of governance or business as usual?

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Knowledge Claims and Struggles in Decentralized Large Carnivore Governance: Insights From Norway and Sweden

Knowledge Claims and Struggles in Decentralized Large Carnivore Governance: Insights From Norway and Sweden

Devolving power from the state: local initiatives for nature protection and recreation in Sweden

Negotiating Improved Multifunctional Landscape Use: Trails as Facilitators for Collaboration Among Stakeholders

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