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The future holds widespread challenges, both ecological, sociological, and economic. To strive for sustainable development and due to the fact that landscape resources of various kinds are limited, landscapes need to be carefully managed (Beland Lindahl, 2008). Different persons, groups, and stakeholders recognize different values to landscapes, rural as well as urban. In processes managing landscapes, it is sometimes hard to identify, navigate, and prioritize among various resources and attached values. The scarcity of resources puts pressure on planning, decision-making, and policy processes in relation to land use. For example, in a forest landscape, there are numerous interests and values. Some can be measured in monetary terms (eg. forestry), some relate to nature conservation, and several are harder to measure with money and more subjective, such as cultural heritage and the well-being one can feel when spending time outdoors in a forest (Grundel et al., 2022). This can, due to the contemporary mounting pressure of forest resources, result in conflicts creating challenges for landscape management.

In the context of landscape use, there is a need to identify, visualize and communicate different values of landscapes, and conflicting values need to be managed in planning, decision-making, and policy processes. Collaborative processes involving different stakeholders are often used in identifying different values and views (Armitage et al., 2012), and in discussing solutions to conflicts in order to reach a successful policy process (Reed et al., 2018). However, many scholars report on challenges related to these collaborative processes, eg. related to those participating in the process, unclear instructions to the participants, and structural constrains (Beierle & Cayford, 2002; Reed et al., 2018; Sheppard & Meitner, 2005).

This session will focus on research exploring the possibilities and challenges of conflicting interests and values related to using and managing different landscapes.

References
Armitage, D., de Loë, R., & Plummer, R. (2012). Environmental governance and its implications for conservation practice. Conservation Letters, 5(4), 245-255.
Beierle, T. C., & Cayford, J. (2002). Democracy in Practice. Public Participation in Environmental Decisions. (1 ed.). Routledge.
Beland Lindahl, K. (2008). Frame Analysis, Place Perceptions and the Politics of Natural Resource Management. Exploring a Forest Policy Controversy in Sweden. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU. Uppsala.
Grundel, I., Christenson, N., & Dahlström, M. (2022). Identifying interests and values in forest areas through collaborative processes and landscape resource analysis. Forest Policy and Economics, 142.
Reed, M. S., Vella, S., Challies, E., de Vente, J., Frewer, L., Hohenwallner-Ries, D., Huber, T., Neumann, R. K., Oughton, E. A., Sidoli del Ceno, J., & van Delden, H. (2018). A theory of participation: what makes stakeholder and public engagement in environmental management work? Restoration Ecology, 26(1), 7-17.
Sheppard, S., & Meitner, M. (2005). Using Multi-Criteria Analysis and Visualization for Sustainable Forest Management Planning With Stakeholder Groups. Forest Ecology and Management, 207, 171-187.

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