Landscape services as boundary concept in landscape governance: Building social capital in collaboration and adapting the landscape |
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Institution: | 1. University of Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, Avda Alcalde Rovira Roure, 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain;2. University of Padova, TESAF Department, Agripolis, Viale dell''Università, 16, Legnaro, 35020 Padova, Italy;3. Forest Sciences Center of Catalonia (CTFC), Forest Economics Department, European Forest Institute, Mediterranean Regional Office (EFIMED), St. Pau Art Nouveau Site, St. Leopold pavilion, St. Antoni Maria Claret, 167, 08025 Barcelona, Spain |
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Abstract: | The landscape services concept provides a lens to study relations within the social-ecological networks that landscapes are, and to identify stakeholders as either providers or beneficiaries. However, landscape services can also be used as a boundary concept in collaborative landscape governance. We demonstrate this by analysing the case of Gouwe Wiericke in the rural west of the Netherlands. Here, a collaborative landscape governance process started off with low levels of trust between farmers and regional governments, as a result of previous processes. The introduction of the landscape services concept helped to bridge social boundaries, which eventually resulted in collective action: farmers and governments reached an agreement on adapted management of ditches and shores to improve water quality and biodiversity. However, we propose that bridging the social boundaries was achieved not merely due to the landscape services concept, but also due to the fact that multiple boundaries were managed simultaneously, and additional arrangements were used in boundary management. |
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Keywords: | Boundary management Collaborative governance Self-governance Social learning Agri-environmental schemes Social-ecological networks |
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