Public participation in landscape planning: Effective methods for implementing the European Landscape Convention in Norway

Eiter, Sebastian; Vik, Marte Lange

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.11.012

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“…We found a strong negative correlation between communication time and different acceptance factors, namely local image, landscape and lack of identification with the project. This supports the argument found in many of existing studies that earlier communication is needed to achieve higher acceptance levels (Eiter and Vik, 2015;Langer et al, 2017;Schenk et al, 2007).…”

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Regional variation in public acceptance of wind energy development in Europe: What are the roles of planning procedures and participation?

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Highlights  We conducted an expert survey about wind energy resistance in planning.  Resistance links to planning quality in four supra-national European regions.  Landscape encroachment is a major reason for resistance in most European regions.  Lack of social justice ranks high in East-and South-Europe.  Comprehensive strategic planning potentially reduces problems with resistance.

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Section: Local Planningsupporting

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Regional variation in public acceptance of wind energy development in Europe: What are the roles of planning procedures and participation?

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“…Previous studies have shown that public participation can be an effective tool in landscape planning and management. In addition, the European Landscape Convention corroborates the beneficial roles of public participation in the implementation of such projects and highlights that potential ideas and suggestions might be overlooked otherwise [51]. Hence, here, we consider ways to make better use of stakeholder resources during the project planning stage.…”

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A Systematic Comparison of Cultural and Ecological Landscape Corridors in Europe

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Primdahl

2019

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Landscape corridors are narrow strips of land that differ from the matrix on either side. In addition to providing connectivity between fragmented landscapes, these corridors serve scenic, cultural, social, ecological, and recreational purposes. We systematically reviewed reports and studies related to 92 cultural and ecological landscape corridors in Europe, focusing, in particular, on their planning and management, problems addressed, approaches and tools used, stakeholders involved and spatial scales. Biodiversity conservation was found to be the most frequently stated aim (67% of the cases), followed by recreation and tourism (62%). The planning processes for cultural and ecological landscape corridors were dominated by similar, quite narrow, stakeholder groups, but via a wide variety of approaches and tools. Ecological corridors existed at larger and more variable scales relative to cultural landscape corridors. Significant differences were found in many aspects of the two types of corridors, although a complete separation of the two categories was difficult since most of the cases reviewed were designed to serve multiple aims. We close the paper by making a few recommendations for decision makers concerning future corridor planning.

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“…Top-down authoritarian decision-making-for instance in clear-felling of forests where people collected berries and mushrooms-is evidence of a lack of cooperation between the authorities and the local inhabitants requiring a bottom up social innovation to facilitate trust [23]. As Eiter and Vik [26] also explain, some people do not feel comfortable with the format of public meetings and attendance at meetings can be a problem in rural areas. However, people were motivated when they believed development or planning would affect them personally.…”

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“…In addition, alienated, distrustful and deprived communities often lack the confidence to participate; they also lack the political or socioeconomic infrastructure and knowledge base required to organise representative citizen groups [23][24][25]. A prerequisite for successful landscape management is the ability of the local population to be able to express their opinions and perspectives about their local landscapes [26]. Previous poorly implemented participatory approaches and historical tensions also raise barriers to development [9,25,27], requiring a need for flexible policies and the development of participatory tools [18,23].…”

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Place Attachment and Its Consequence for Landscape-Scale Management and Readiness to Participate: Social Network Complexity in the Post-Soviet Rural Context of Latvia and Estonia

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This paper uses the tripartite place attachment framework to examine six rural parishes across Estonia and Latvia. Existing analyses/frameworks on participatory processes often neglect the complexity of relationships that rural residents have to their local environments. From a qualitative analysis of face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with case study area inhabitants (23 interviews in Estonia and 27 in Latvia), we depict varying degrees of attachment of individuals to each other and to the place in which they live and their readiness to participate in terms of willingness and ability to participate in a landscape-scale management process. Attachment to the local area was strongest where the social ties were strongest, independent of their sociogeographical features. Social ties were strong where there were good family connections or strong religious or cultural institutions. Taking individual parishes and engaging inhabitants through in-depth interviews using place attachment analysis gives an overall perspective of life in that rural location. These findings reveal important connections within the communities with the potential for planners to engage with local inhabitants and possible barriers to participation.

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Public participation in landscape planning: Effective methods for implementing the European Landscape Convention in Norway

Cited by 45 publications

References 24 publications

Regional variation in public acceptance of wind energy development in Europe: What are the roles of planning procedures and participation?

Regional variation in public acceptance of wind energy development in Europe: What are the roles of planning procedures and participation?

A Systematic Comparison of Cultural and Ecological Landscape Corridors in Europe

Place Attachment and Its Consequence for Landscape-Scale Management and Readiness to Participate: Social Network Complexity in the Post-Soviet Rural Context of Latvia and Estonia

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