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Jana Zscheischler1,2, Maria Busse3, Nico Heitepriem4
1Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Research Area Land Use and Governance, Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374, Müncheberg, Germany. jana.zscheischler@zalf.de.
Environmental Management
|September 27, 2019
Summary
Community-based collaborative landscape management (CLM) shows promise for preserving cultural landscapes. However, social factors and coordination challenges hinder success, highlighting the need for transdisciplinary (TD) processes to foster collaboration.
Area of Science:
- Environmental Science
- Sociology
- Rural Development
Background:
- Traditional cultural landscapes offer ecological, social, and heritage value.
- Rural changes threaten these landscapes globally, necessitating new management strategies.
- Economic viability is a key challenge in cultural landscape preservation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To assess preconditions for community-based collaborative landscape management (CLM) in the Spreewald Biosphere Reserve.
- To identify opportunities and barriers for initiating CLM.
- To explore the role of transdisciplinary (TD) processes in supporting CLM.
Main Methods:
- Stakeholder analysis to examine preconditions and opportunities for CLM.
- Evaluation of landscape change characteristics, actor linkages, and problem awareness.
- Assessment of social relationships, coordination legitimacy, and community collaborative capacity.
Main Results:
- CLM is feasible due to the complex nature of landscape change and broad awareness.
- Barriers to CLM include inadequate social relationships, coordination issues, and limited collaborative capacity.
- Transdisciplinary (TD) processes show significant value in supporting emerging collaboration.
Conclusions:
- While CLM is a promising approach for cultural landscape management, success is contingent on addressing social and coordination challenges.
- Transdisciplinary (TD) processes are crucial for facilitating the establishment of collaborative landscape management.
- Further research and practical application of TD are recommended to enhance CLM effectiveness.
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