Landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service in a Nordic context Concepts, values and decision-making

Cultural ecosystem services in the form of experiences derived from landscapes are potentially important, but often overlooked. Given the large and unprecedented landscape changes many of the Nordic countries are undergoing, there is a need to find ways of including people’s preferences and the valu...

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Main Authors Lindhjem, Henrik, Reinvang, Rasmus, Zandersen, Marianne
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Copenhagen Nordisk Ministerråd 2015
Nordic Council of Ministers
Edition1
SeriesTemaNord
Subjects
Cultural heritage
Denmark
Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
Ecosystem services
Engineering and Technology
Environment
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Management
Finland
Hållbar utveckling
Landmiljö
Landscape
Landscape changes
Miljö
Miljöteknik och miljöledning
Natur
Nature
Naturresursteknik
Nordic countries
Norway
Offentliga finanser
Public finance
Rural environment
Scandinavia
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Sweden
Teknik
The environment
Tourism
Turism
Wind power
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Table of Contents:
  • Annex I: List of interviewees -- Annex II: CICES classification ofcultural ecosystem services -- Annex III: Landscape imagesfrom the Nordic countries
  • Intro -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Preface -- 1. Comprehensive summary andconclusions -- 1.1 Background and motivation -- 1.2 Objectives and scope -- 1.3 Findings and discussion -- 1.4 Concluding remarks: Further work - towardsbridging the gap -- 2. Introduction -- 2.1 Background and motivation:The rising challenge of assessing values oflandscape experiences and impacts -- 2.2 Overall objective, activities and scope -- 2.3 Structure of the report -- 3. Landscape experiences as acultural ecosystem service -How to make sense of it? -- 3.1 What do we mean by "landscape" and "landscapeexperiences"? -- 3.2 What do natural science, economics andsociology traditions say about landscapes andlandscape experiences? -- 3.3 What do we mean by "cultural ecosystemservices"? -- 3.4 Landscape experience as a cultural ecosystemservice -- 3.5 Conclusions and operationalisation of landscapeexperience as an ecosystem service -- 4. People's preferences forlandscape experiences -methods, values andillustrations -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 How can we illustrate and measure people'slandscape preferences? -- 4.3 Non-monetary surveys of landscape preferences -- 4.4 Monetary valuation of landscape and landscapeexperiences -- 4.5 Examples and illustrations of the variety andmagnitude of landscape experiences -- 4.6 Summary and some key points -- 5. How are values of landscapeexperiences currently treatedin assessments &amp -- decisionmaking? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Common notions of landscape in the Nordiccountries - a look at landscape images on Google -- 5.3 Denmark: Landscape experiences in physicalplanning and other decision-making contexts -- 5.4 Norway: Landscape experiences in physicalplanning and other decision-making contexts -- 5.5 Examples from Sweden, Finland and Iceland -- 5.6 Summary and some key points -- References -- Sammendrag - norsk