During recent decades, opinions about how nature should be protected by the public sector
have changed. One result is a better awareness of the important role that local actors play in …

Local participation has evolved as a strategy in the conservation and maintenance of
biological and cultural values in cultural landscapes. The meaning (s) of the concept …

Den lokala naturvårdssatsningen (LONA) var ett statligt initiativ under åren 2004-2006 i
samarbete med svenska kommuner och en rad olika organisationer på lokal nivå. LONA har …

A core challenge in environmental planning is the gap between a strong participatory ethos
and top-down defined nature protection policies. Nature protection policies for large areas …

This thesis presents and asseses a method for participation in landscape planning and
management. The method has a long-term perspective, while focusing on the interests of …

The dominating legal instrument for area-based protection in Norway has been the Nature
Conservation Act. Although protection is directed mainly towards species, ecosystems and …

This chapter explores some of the challenges for policy-makers and administrators of
introducing effective public participation in landscape protection, management and planning …

The European Landscape Convention has brought up the question of democracy in relation
to landscape transformation, but without a clear definition of democracy. This paper …

This chapter focuses on the experiences from two of the major Action Research projects
from Danish rural community contexts, both of them initiated at the beginning of the 2000s …

Recent years have seen much talk of participation in relation to landscapes, particularly
following the adoption of the European Landscape Convention. The latter emphasises, at a …