PARTICIPATORY LANDSCAPE PLANNING: THE CASE OF THE “WESTVAARDERSPLASSEN” IN THE NETHERLANDS

Although it has been recognised that a stakeholder approach is important in effective landscape planning, a lack of objective methods which include stakeholder opinions in planning projects exists. In this paper we describe a new experimental method for creating landscape planning maps based on stakeholder opinions. During interviews, stakeholders are asked to rate the suitability of individual landscape elements and to visualise their ideal landscape plan. The results of the interview are then used to create a new landscape plan for the area. This method is illustrated by means of a case stud... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Anouk GEVAERT
Stefan Jonathan KUPERS
Wim HEIJMAN
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Reihe/Periodikum: Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Vol 17, Iss 2, Pp 92-102 (2014)
Verlag/Hrsg.: Slovak University of Agriculture
Schlagwörter: landscape planning / participatory planning / stakeholder approach / bottom-up approach / Agriculture / S / Agriculture (General) / S1-972
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.15414/raae.2014.17.02.92-102

Although it has been recognised that a stakeholder approach is important in effective landscape planning, a lack of objective methods which include stakeholder opinions in planning projects exists. In this paper we describe a new experimental method for creating landscape planning maps based on stakeholder opinions. During interviews, stakeholders are asked to rate the suitability of individual landscape elements and to visualise their ideal landscape plan. The results of the interview are then used to create a new landscape plan for the area. This method is illustrated by means of a case study in the Netherlands in which four stakeholders were included: the municipality, an agricultural organisation, the water board and a nature conservation organisation. In addition, a sensitivity analysis was performed in order to determine the robustness of the proposed method. Changing weights given to the individual stakeholders did not have a significant influence on the resulting landscape plan, indicating that this is a promising method for participatory landscape planning.