Synergy or marginalisation? Narratives of farming and tourism in Geiranger, western Norway

Vik, Marte Lange; Benjaminsen, Tor A.; Daugstad, Karoline

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“…Tourism has developed as a strategy for income diversification in many mountain areas in Europe (Hjalager 1996). In Norway, national and regional government agencies support tourism in remote rural areas (Vik et al 2010). However, there are questions about whether tourism and agriculture are complementary or competitive (Bernu es et al 2011).…”

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Seeing Northern European Fjord and Mountain Agriculture Through Farmers' Eyes: A Critical Step in Promoting Sustainability

Bernués

Clemetsen

Eik

2016

Mountain Research and Development

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Agriculture is a minor contributor to local economies in European mountain and fjord areas where tourism is predominant; however, it is essential to maintain the agricultural landscape and other important nonmarket functions of mountain agroecosystems. Policy-makers have aimed to support agriculture in these areas, but farmers' perspectives are poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to analyze (1) the main characteristics of livestock farming systems and the recent changes they have undergone, (2) farmers' perceptions of different functions of agriculture, (3) farmers' goals, and (4) the relationships among these elements in order to support more targeted policy-making in fjord and mountain areas in Scandinavian countries. We collected data from 27 farms and conducted univariate and multivariate (principal components and cluster) analyses. Most recent changes in farming have been related to improving working conditions and increasing tourist activity. According to the farmers, the main nonmarket functions of agriculture were (1) maintaining cultural heritage and rural development, (2) delivering environmental services, and (3) promoting traditional agriculture. The farmers' primary goals were (1) innovating for better farming, (2) improving the family's quality of life, and (3) achieving economic objectives. We identified 2 clusters of farmers based on divergent perceptions of rural development and the goal of improving the family's quality of life. These results point to the importance of integrated policies that address agricultural, environmental, and rural development together and take into account farmers' diverse perceptions and goals

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Seeing Northern European Fjord and Mountain Agriculture Through Farmers' Eyes: A Critical Step in Promoting Sustainability

Bernués

Clemetsen

Eik

2016

Mountain Research and Development

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“…Part-time farming may be an adaptation strategy to continue with the farming activity but is related to the existence of off-farm job opportunities that are often linked to tourism development (García-Martínez et al, 2009). The extent to which the opportunities that tourism development provides will increase farm resilience by helping farms to overcome periods of low profitability in their farming activities, in line with the synergy narrative (Vik et al, 2010;Genovese et al, 2017), requires deeper investigation .…”

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Implementing the livelihood resilience framework: An indicator-based model for assessing mountain pastoral farming systems

Lecegui

Olaizola

López‐i‐Gelats

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Agricultural Systems

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“…While a number of Nordic geographers have carried out political ecology studies in the South, there has been comparatively little Nordic political ecology research at 'home' (although see Benjaminsen & Svarstad (2008;; Vik et al (2010); Aasetre & Vik (2013);and Christiansen (2013) for Norway; Beach (2004), Dahlberg et al (2010) and Alarcón (2015) for Sweden; Pálsson (1998) for Iceland; and Robbins & Heikinnen (2006) for a discussion of political ecology in a Nordic context). In part, as has been the case in Anglo-American research, this is a result of a historical link between critical environmental research on the one hand and international development and intervention on the other.…”

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Nordic political ecologies

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Robbins²

2015

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The purpose of this special issue is to demonstrate the relevance of political ecology for the study of Nordic environmental governance. As political ecology has gained a leading position in international environmental geography, Nordic geographers have increasingly been attracted to this approach. Although many have carried out political ecology research in the Global South, there has been little Nordic political ecology research at 'home'. The contributions to this special issue demonstrate that the themes emerging in Nordic political ecology are familiar from research in developing countries, whether discussing tensions between rural or indigenous people and the state, contested environmental knowledge and how the state relates to such contestations, or prevailing discourses of sustainable land use. The Nordic context also represents a unique potential for political ecology scholarship, for at least two reasons. First, the Nordic landscape tradition suggests a potentially useful bridge between political ecology and land change science. Second, the emergence of the Arctic as a resource frontier and a geopolitical target area represents a potential comparative advantage of Nordic political ecology. This frontier is just as dynamic, environmentally and politically, as any other frontier of resource exploitation.

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Synergy or marginalisation? Narratives of farming and tourism in Geiranger, western Norway

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

Seeing Northern European Fjord and Mountain Agriculture Through Farmers' Eyes: A Critical Step in Promoting Sustainability

Seeing Northern European Fjord and Mountain Agriculture Through Farmers' Eyes: A Critical Step in Promoting Sustainability

Implementing the livelihood resilience framework: An indicator-based model for assessing mountain pastoral farming systems

Nordic political ecologies

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