Envisioning upland futures: Stakeholder responses to scenarios for Europe's mountain landscapes |
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Authors: | Reto Soliva,Katrina Rø nningen,Ioanna Bella,Peter Bezak,Tamsin Cooper,Bjø rn Egil Flø ,Pascal Marty,Clive Potter |
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Affiliation: | 1. Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland;2. Centre for Rural Research, University Centre, 7491 Trondheim, Norway;3. Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Street, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece;4. Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava, Branch Nitra, Akademická 2, 949 01 Nitra, Slovak Republic;5. Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW3 2AZ, UK;6. Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE, UMR 5145 CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, F 34293 Cedex 5, Montpellier, France |
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Abstract: | In a period of agricultural decline in the uplands of Europe, agriculture is ceasing to provide the primary rationale for the organisation, utilisation and functioning of rural space. Policy reform, market trends and changes to the way citizens and consumers think about the countryside all suggest a need for thinking strategically about the future development of these areas. However, without a broad involvement of stakeholders, land use conflicts, and social and cultural conflicts in general, may increase. Involving stakeholders in upland areas can be facilitated by using scenario technique and by discussing alternative futures in local stakeholder panels. In this paper we present four scenarios of land-use change for the year 2030, and their assessments by stakeholder panels in Scotland, France, Norway, Switzerland, Slovakia and Greece. The aim of the paper is to explore the ways in which stakeholders in these locations advocate and assess these scenarios. We also explore how stakeholders in different countries weight the visual landscape impacts, the livelihood and biodiversity aspects of the scenarios in their assessment, and the reasons for their prioritising. The cross-country analysis shows that stakeholders across the study areas are united in their overall rejection of agricultural liberalisation, advocating a production-oriented, but multifunctional and environmentally-friendly agriculture that maintains landscapes and biodiversity. |
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Keywords: | Agricultural decline Scenarios Landscape Biodiversity Stakeholders Mountains BioScene Europe |
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