Social and Cultural Sustainability: Criteria, Indicators, Verifier Variables for Measurement and Maps for Visualization to Support Planning

Policies on economic use of natural resources require considerations to social and cultural values. In order to make those concrete in a planning context, this paper aims to interpret social and cultural criteria, identify indicators, match these with verifier variables and visualize them on maps. I...

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Published in:Ambio 2013-03, Vol.42 (2), p.215-228
Main Authors: Axelsson, Robert, Angelstam, Per, Degerman, Erik, Teitelbaum, Sara, Andersson, Kjell, Elbakidze, Marine, Drotz, Marcus K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atmospheric Sciences
Cities
Conservation of Natural Resources
Councils
Criteria
Cultural diversity
Cultural landscapes
Cultural Studies
Cultural sustainability
Cultural values
Culture
Earth and Environmental Science
Ecological sustainability
Ecology
Economic policy
Education
Environment
Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
Environmental Management
Environmental policy
Environmental Sciences
Forestry development
Geography
Human Geography
Interviews
Kulturgeografi
Kulturstudier
Landscapes
Management decisions
Measurement techniques
Miljövetenskap
Natural resources
Physical Geography
Policy
Policy Making
Social Planning
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Social Values
Sociologi (exklusive socialt arbete, socialpsykologi och socialantropologi)
Sociology (excluding Social work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Spatial distribution
Sustainability
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable development
Sweden
Trends
Tvärvetenskapliga studier
Urban areas
Variables
Visualization
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Summary:Policies on economic use of natural resources require considerations to social and cultural values. In order to make those concrete in a planning context, this paper aims to interpret social and cultural criteria, identify indicators, match these with verifier variables and visualize them on maps. Indicators were selected from a review of scholarly work and natural resource policies, and then matched with verifier variables available for Sweden's 290 municipalities. Maps of the spatial distribution of four social and four cultural verifier variables were then produced. Consideration of social and cultural values in the studied natural resource use sectors was limited. The spatial distribution of the verifier variables exhibited a general divide between northwest and south Sweden, and regional rural and urban areas. We conclude that it is possible to identify indicators and match them with verifier variables to support inclusion of social and cultural values in planning.
ISSN:0044-7447
1654-7209
1654-7209
DOI:10.1007/s13280-012-0376-0