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Assessing landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service in public infrastructure projects : from concept to practice Zandersen, Marianne ; Lindhjem, Henrik ; Magnussen, Kristin ; Helin, Janne ; Reinvang, Rasmus

By: Contributor(s): Series: TemaNord ; 2017:510Publication details: Köpenhamn Nordisk Ministerråd, 2017Description: 81 sISBN:
  • 9789289348911
  • 978-92-893-4892-8
  • 978-92-893-4890-4
Subject(s): Online resources: Abstract: Undesirable landscape changes, especially from large infrastructure projects, may give rise to large welfare losses due to degraded landscape experiences. These losses are largely unaccounted for in Nordic countries’ planning processes. There is a need to develop practical methods of including people’s preferences and the value of landscape impacts in policy assessments and decision-making. The project aims to explore how the ecosystem service approach and values of landscape experiences can be better incorporated in actual cases. The project developed a two-step approach to assess, value and incorporate landscape impacts and tested these in case studies based on environmental impact assessments (EIA) documentation. We found that despite the lack of information generated in the EIAs, the step-wise method significantly improved upon evidence and conclusions of how people are impacted due to landscape changes.
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Undesirable landscape changes, especially from large infrastructure projects, may give rise to large welfare losses due to degraded landscape experiences. These losses are largely unaccounted for in Nordic countries’ planning processes. There is a need to develop practical methods of including people’s preferences and the value of landscape impacts in policy assessments and decision-making. The project aims to explore how the ecosystem service approach and values of landscape experiences can be better incorporated in actual cases. The project developed a two-step approach to assess, value and incorporate landscape impacts and tested these in case studies based on environmental impact assessments (EIA) documentation. We found that despite the lack of information generated in the EIAs, the step-wise method significantly improved upon evidence and conclusions of how people are impacted due to landscape changes.