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MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Conditions for sustainable management of urban recreational landscapes. May governance and accessibility be valuable tools?

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Our focus is how urban recreation areas is affected by planning, network governance discourse and interaction between stakeholders in three selected Norwegian municipalities. The proposal has a particular focus on the planning system authorized by the Pla nning and Building Act as an appropriate meta governance tool for preservation of landscapes. To what extent have the planning system in a fragmented institutional context with a high numer of public authorities, organisations and private stakeholders cap acity to manage to balance the many, and often conflicting, interests between local and national objectives, and the tension between protection and development. Further, the proposal includes a study of the composition of stakeholders in outdoor recreatio n management; their discourse, interaction and representation, which are seen as central variables affecting preservation of landscapes. In addition, the project will include a material component by looking at planning as the public production of space. M ore specifically, we will study the effect of accessibility to green landscapes and frequency using GIS tools of use for the preservation of landscapes for posterity. In so doing we are bridging the gap between studies of the partly immaterial focus on co mmunication and decision-making in planning on one side and the material focus of the production and alteration of space on the other.

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MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015