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Contested landscapes: navigating competing claims and cumulative impacts in Northern Sweden (CO-LAND) explores approaches to manage the cumulative impacts specifically on the connectivity and quality of reindeer pastures. These pastures will serve as an “indicator” for the wider impacts on the green infrastructure of the landscape.
One of the most complex and acute challenges of contemporary land use planning concerns multiple and increasingly competing claims over land and natural resources. This project builds on ongoing interdisciplinary research efforts and close collaboration with public authorities and stakeholders. It addresses the methodological challenges in assessing the cumulative impacts of multiple pressures on landscape functionality. It also investigates the insufficiencies in the current governance institutions to generate a landscape perspective, navigate competing claims and reduce the conflict level between landscape users.
Reindeer herding in northern Sweden. Photo: Michiel van Nimwegen / Flickr.
The main research questions are:
The project team is composed of colleagues from Vilhelmina norra and Sirges reindeer herding communities, the Swedish Sami Association, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Stockholm University, and Dalarna University.
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