Abstract
This paper focuses on a three-year rural landscape strategy-making process, which was driven by a Danish municipality and involved a large number of stakeholders. The project was part of an action research program aimed at developing new approaches to collaborative landscape planning. Gaining experiences with such approaches was part of this aim. During the course of the project, the focus and scale of the strategy changed significantly. The process developed in interesting ways in respect to three dimensions of collaborative landscape planning: collaboration, scale, and public goods. After a brief review of the three dimensions and their links to landscape planning, the case story is unfolded in three sections: (1) The planning process, (2) the process outcome (the strategy), and (3) the aftermath in terms of critical reflections from participating planners and local stakeholders. The process and outcome of the landscape strategy-making process is discussed in the context of collaboration, scale, and public goods, including a brief outline of the lessons learned.
Highlights
The participatory and collaborative approaches to environmental planning and policy have gained currency in recent decades for several reasons
The policy domain of spatial planning has a history of adopting participatory and collaborative approaches, which represent a way of framing conflict management and promoting desired future changes, including guiding place making processes [9,10]
We focus on rural landscape planning from two perspectives: collaboration and the protection and promotion of public goods, and we attempt to combine new ideas of landscape approaches with spatial planning using a framework for ‘landscape strategy making’ described elsewhere in detail by two of the authors of this paper [14,15]
Summary
The participatory and collaborative approaches to environmental planning and policy have gained currency in recent decades for several reasons. We focus on rural landscape planning from two perspectives: collaboration and the protection and promotion of public goods, and we attempt to combine new ideas of landscape approaches with spatial planning using a framework for ‘landscape strategy making’ described elsewhere in detail by two of the authors of this paper [14,15]. The case study concerns a collaborative landscape strategy-making project for a rural Danish coastal landscape involving municipal planners and local stakeholders over a three-year period. During this process the aims and scale of the project changed significantly from a focus on enhancements of a local, intensive agricultural landscape to a spatial strategy for a regional coastal landscape
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