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MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Coastal landscape changes at the top of Europe: Threats and opportunities for maintenance, restoration and development (TOPCOAST)

Tildelt: kr 3,3 mill.

Norwegian coastal landscapes are now subject to change, both physically, due to changes in climate, agricultural policy, industry and housing development but also resulting from transformations in perception, because of new knowledge and transformations o f local ways of life, such as dissemination of romantic attitudes among both tourists and locals. Among the most significant visual alterations both in the case area and elsewhere are general re-growth and overgrowth. These changes might lead to problems such as overgrowth of cultural remains, decrease in biodiversity, deterioration of the vistas for sightseers, reduced local access to valued values, and probably also a loss of placeness to the local population. The main objective of the present project is to identify, by the use of an inter-disciplinary approach, significant landscape changes in the archipelagos of Lofoten and Vesterålen, Northern Norway, to evaluate implications of such changes, and to clarify foundations for maintenance and restorati on together with opportunities for development, especially accentuating tourism-related issues. Moreover, the project will explore how landscapes and landscape changes are perceived by tourists and evaluate implications of landscape changes on biodiversit y, cultural heritage values, agriculture, forestry, reindeer husbandry, and tourism. The project will advance methods for identification, analysis and assessments of landscapes and landscape qualities and finally propose measures for countryside maintena nce, restoration and novel rural tourism (new employment opportunities) that can have a balanced and sustainable effect on the landscapes.

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MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

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