Land-use planning and designated national interests in Sweden: arctic perspectives on landscape multifunctionality. Issue 12 (15th October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Solbär, Lovisa; Marcianó, Pietro; Pettersson, Maria
• Is Part Of: Journal of environmental planning and management. Volume 62:Issue 12(2019)
• Page Start: 2145
• Page End: 2165
• Publication Date: 2019-10-15
• Subjects: landscape governance -- rural resources -- multifunctionality -- riksintresse -- Sweden; City planning -- Periodicals; City planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 333.7
• DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2018.1535430
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-0568

Abstract

Abstract : Rural land-use planning should handle land-use interests, such as nature-based tourism, biodiversity preservation and industrial resource extraction, on an appropriate level of scale. Management for multifunctionality represents an option in factually multifunctional landscapes. The Swedish policy of national interests, as applied in the context of the three northernmost municipalities' statutory comprehensive plan-making, provides an attempt in this direction. Based on mapping and practitioner interviews, the study reveals that the vague 'practical' implications of the omnipresent land-use designations under the policy complicate the task of local-level spatial planning. Integrated consideration of multiple uses (or use options), implicated by policy principles, was found to fall back into case-by-case assessments. Land-use designation can be worked into a tool for the governance of multifunctional landscapes when care is taken to manage the aspects outlined in the study, among others interagency orchestration and explicit regulation of co-existence.