Negotiating Landscape in the Swiss Alps: Experience with Implementation of a Systemic Landscape Development Approach

Through its biodiversity, landscape, and culture, the Swiss Alpine region has great social and economic significance. The Alpine landscape and its natural resources yield a whole range of benefits that are utilized by a large number of stakeholders who have widely differing interests in use and prot...

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Published in:Mountain research and development 2008-05, Vol.28 (2), p.105-109
Main Authors: Heeb, Johannes, Hindenlang, Karin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agroforestry
Alpine regions
Cognitive models
Development
Forest habitats
Forest management
Forest restoration
Forestry development
Forestry research
Land development
Landscapes
Natural resources
Stakeholders
Studies
Sustainable development
Sustainable forest management
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Summary:Through its biodiversity, landscape, and culture, the Swiss Alpine region has great social and economic significance. The Alpine landscape and its natural resources yield a whole range of benefits that are utilized by a large number of stakeholders who have widely differing interests in use and protection of these resources. Management of landscape development processes is a trans-sectoral task, requiring that different stakeholders work together. Conflicts need to be resolved and sustainable solutions need to be found and implemented. The present article describes how Systemic Landscape Development, a methodological approach for participatory control and organization of these processes, was applied to deal with the complex challenge of a deteriorating protection forest above a motorway of international importance in Central Switzerland. The resulting Stotzigwald Platform project took place as part of the Swiss National Research Program NRP 48, Landscapes and Habitats of the Alps.
ISSN:0276-4741
1994-7151
DOI:10.1659/mrd.0974