Spatial planning using a landscape approach has been recognized as being essential for
reconciling ecological, cultural and socio-economic dimensions in sustainable development …

Forest use in Sweden may be seen as constituting an essentially conflicted area, in which a
number of actors position themselves. Based on a review of policy documents, this study …

The Arctic has often been seen as a natural area, or even a “wilderness”, where mainly
indigenous and subsistence activities have been prominent. Contrary to this, the present …

The EU Water Framework Directive exerts a major impact on water management structure
and aims, and water use activities in the member states. This paper reviews the perceptions …

This chapter describes how the forest owner can be seen as differently constructed in
different European countries depending on, amongst other things, whether it has been …

This chapter describes and analyses overlapping planning structures and multi-level
planning issues and how they affect current land use and management in the forest …

This article studies the relation between territorial and functional planning by investigating
the Swedish local comprehensive planning system and the forest management. The former …

Rural literature has often been seen as expressing specific perceptions of the rural, largely
based in an Anglo-Saxon conception of agricultural rural idyllic landscapes. Based on …

This chapter describes how understandings of the “rural” have progressed from a focus on
either decline or amenity, whereby these more simplified understandings can be seen to …

Environmental resource use is intimately intertwined with gendered power relations.
Overarching ideals, governance and management are shaped by the negotiation and …