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6 - Organising Adaptive and Collaborative Landscape Stewardship on Farmland

from Part II - Landscape Stewardship on the Ground

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2017

By
Marianne Penker
Edited by
Claudia Bieling  and
Tobias Plieninger
Claudia Bieling
Affiliation:
Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart
Tobias Plieninger
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
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Summary

Many landscapes are shaped by centuries of agricultural land use. As agricultural land use practices change, landscapes transform. Most of these transformations occur without major notice. Others, however, are perceived as unwelcome and call for landscape stewardship. Agri-environmental payments administered to single farms are the dominant approach to agricultural landscape stewardship in Europe. The practical examples of collaborative schemes illustrate alternative and powerful options for organising and financing landscape stewardship. We know little on how to effectively initiate, finance and organise collaborative processes of landscape stewardship and how to co-ordinate diverse groups and interests. The lessons learned from socio-ecological systems literature and the three practical cases show that cross-farm and cross-sector approaches require facilitation, problem awareness, burden and benefit sharing, access to external advise, and monitoring mechanisms – in essence a bridging organisation ensuring the quality of an ongoing negotiation, social learning, and adaptation process. Despite the need for context-specific approaches, the analysis confirms that the eight design principles for the sustainable management of common natural resources can provide general orientation for the practical organisation of collaborative landscape stewardship.
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The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship , pp. 103 - 120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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