Defining a mountain landscape characterized by grazing using actor perception, governmental strategy, and environmental monitoring data

doi:10.1007/s11629-018-5258-x

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	Defining a mountain landscape characterized by grazing using actor perception, governmental strategy, and environmental monitoring data
	Neumann, Wiebke; Sandstrom, Camilla; Holmgren, Lina; Ericsson, Goeran
刊名	JOURNAL OF MOUNTAIN SCIENCE
	2019
卷号	16 期号:7 页码:1691-1701
关键词	Milestone target Structured decision process Reindeer herding Herbivory Environmental Conservation strategy Sweden
ISSN号	1672-6316
DOI	10.1007/s11629-018-5258-x
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	In multi-functional mountainous landscapes worldwide, conservation of natural values is a major task. Here, pro-active policies can be a way forward. National Environmental Quality Objectives (EQO) to solve environmental problems for future generations, however, often wrestle with being too visionary and lacking specificity, which complicates their implementation. The EQO A Magnificent Mountain Landscape that has been adopted by the Swedish Parliament in 1999 to preserve the pristine mountain environment in Sweden, experiences all these flaws. To aid its implementation, we studied the conditions and processes needed to define, to evaluate, and to preserve its goals across the Swedish mountain chain, using one of its milestone targets (a landscape characterized by grazing) as a study system. Applying qualitative and quantitative methods, we analyzed three types of data: 1) referral responses to the governmental strategy document, 2) interviews with relevant actors, and 3) environmental monitoring data (reindeer position data). Nationally, our results suggest a need for geographical differentiation to match regional/local conditions. Regionally, difference in both perception and definition of the milestone target among the actors hinders the formulation, monitoring, and evaluation of a common goal. Next to a culture-nature divide, we found that a within as a user and from the outside as an observer perspective influenced suggested definitions. Moreover, we found a need for better defining whether the goal is maintaining current conditions or restoring previous ones. Our result supports the use of animal position data as a decision support tool to monitor and to aid evaluation of the target. Given the number of actors involved and conflicts of interests present, we suggest the application of a structured decision process to accomplish agreements on a common goal. Here, environmental monitoring data can aid a landscape assessment step as a natural part in the decision process to target landscape management actions resourcefully and effectively.
电子版国际标准刊号	1993-0321
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000474574600016
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/46542]
专题	Journal of Mountain Science_Journal of Mountain Science-2019_Vol16 No.7
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Neumann, Wiebke,Sandstrom, Camilla,Holmgren, Lina,et al. Defining a mountain landscape characterized by grazing using actor perception, governmental strategy, and environmental monitoring data[J]. JOURNAL OF MOUNTAIN SCIENCE,2019,16(7):1691-1701.
APA	Neumann, Wiebke,Sandstrom, Camilla,Holmgren, Lina,&Ericsson, Goeran.(2019).Defining a mountain landscape characterized by grazing using actor perception, governmental strategy, and environmental monitoring data.JOURNAL OF MOUNTAIN SCIENCE,16(7),1691-1701.
MLA	Neumann, Wiebke,et al."Defining a mountain landscape characterized by grazing using actor perception, governmental strategy, and environmental monitoring data".JOURNAL OF MOUNTAIN SCIENCE 16.7(2019):1691-1701.