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- Fors, Hanna, et al.
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Interdisciplinary insights into navigating the maze of landscape multifunctionality
- 2024
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Ingår i: People and Nature. - 2575-8314. ; 6, s. 519-534
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increasing demands for land to deliver multiple and sometimes conflicting services to people and nature have led to the development of an extensive body of research focussed on multifunctional landscapes. However, this has created both insight and confusion, as authors from a variety of disciplines have independently tackled the question of how to manage the trade-offs and synergies inherent in landscapes that are required to produce multiple functions and services. We employed an interdisciplinary perspective to formulate some key questions that researchers of multifunctional landscapes can use to identify blind spots. Our process resulted in a question-based analysis support scheme that supports reflection and recursive thinking about multifunctional landscapes, beginning with objective setting and visions for addressing it, grounded in baseline mapping, then assessing landscape functions and their single and multiple interactions; as well as the analysis of sensitivity to spatial and temporal dimensions. Other key points identified are the need for clarity and examination of unstated assumptions, from aims to definitions; accounting for scale; incorporating stakeholder needs throughout the process and applying suitable methods of measurement and aggregation. The focus on asking guided questions derives from the insight that there is no universal correct approach to multifunctional landscapes; the aim should instead be to find the most appropriate methods for the given circumstances and goals. Policy implications. Tackling current and future socio-ecological challenges is an interdisciplinary undertaking, necessitating collaborative efforts between research fields that each bring valuable and distinct insights. To effectively combat these challenges, multifunctional landscapes require a clear process and focused objective in their implementation. Multifunctionality should be seen as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.okade krav pa att landskap ska leverera flera och ibland motstridiga tjanster till manniskor och natur har lett till utvecklingen av en omfangsrik forskning med fokus pa multifunktionella landskap. Detta har skapat bade insikter och oklarheter, eftersom forskare fran en rad olika discipliner oberoende av varandra har tagit sig an fragan om hur man ska hantera de kompromisser och synergier som uppstar i landskap som maste producera flera olika funktioner och tjanster. Genom ett interdisciplinart perspektiv har vi formulerat nyckelfragor som forskare som studerar multifunktionella landskap kan anvanda for att identifiera sina blinda flackar. Var process resulterade i ett fragebaserat analysstod for reflektion och rekursivt tankande om multifunktionella landskap. Det borjar med malsattning och visioner for att adressera detta, som sedan forankras i kartlaggning av forutsattningar, och fortsatter med bedomning av landskapsfunktioner och hur de interagerar men enskilda eller flera andra landskapsfunktioner; samt med analys av kanslighet for rumsliga och tidsmassiga dimensioner. Andra centrala punkter som identifierats ar behovet av tydlighet och granskning av outtalade grundantaganden, fran mal till definitioner; att skalan tas i beaktande; inforlivande av intressenters behov genom hela processen och tillampning av lampliga metoder for matning och aggregering av information. Vart fokus pa att stalla vagledande fragor kommer fran insikten att det inte finns nagot universellt korrekt tillvagagangssatt for multifunktionella landskap; syftet bor istallet vara att hitta de mest lampliga metoderna for de givna omstandigheterna och malen. Betydelse for politiken. Att ta itu med nuvarande och framtida socioekologiska utmaningar ar ett interdisciplinart atagande som kraver samarbete mellan forskningsomraden som vart och ett bidrar med vardefulla och specifika insikter. For att mota dessa utmaningar pa ett effektivt satt kravs en tydlig process och ett fokuserat mal for implementeringen av multifunktionella landskap. Multifunktionalitet bor ses som ett medel for att na ett mal, snarare an ett mal i sig.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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- Kågström, Mari, et al.
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Barriers and Openings for Transforming Swedish Planning Practice - Examples of Landscape and Health Policy Integration
- 2019
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Ingår i: Planning Theory and Practice. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1464-9357 .- 1470-000X. ; 20, s. 494-511
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines how key actors think and act in everyday planning practice when new policies are introduced. Drawing on frame theory, an analytical lens is developed for explaining mechanisms that restrain and promote policy-driven transformation in practice. The analysis focuses on current practice and Swedish planning practitioners' experience of the integration of recently introduced policies on landscape and health. A key finding is that well-established perceptions of responsibility can hamper policy integration - even in cases where practitioners see benefits to planning outcomes of acting differently. Another key finding is that policies reframing landscape and health as holistic and relational can make individual practitioners question current practice, thereby opening the way for transformation.
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- Kågström, Mari
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Begränsande normer och utrymme för förändring
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Ingår i: Plan: tidskrift för planering av landsbygd och tätorter. - 0032-0560. ; 2016, s. 50-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- I PLAN nr 2-3 2010 konstaterade Mari Kågström vid SLU att det finns ett stort tolkningsutrymme i lagar och policys gällande hantering av hälsa i MKB. Hon menar att det ger praktikerna stor makt att påverka hur detta görs. i följande artikel tar Kågström ämnet vidare och berättar mer om hur dessa praktiker tänker och agerar kring hälsa och om deras möjligheter att påverka sin praktik.
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- Kågström, Mari
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Between 'best' and 'good enough': How consultants guide quality in environmental assessment
- 2016
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Ingår i: Environmental Impact Assessment Review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0195-9255. ; 60, s. 169-175
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Quality enhancement in environmental assessment tends to be connected to control mechanisms and best-practice guidelines. This paper takes an alternative approach examining quality performance through the lenses of consultants' perceptions of appropriate action, primarily in relation to the scoping phase. The study builds on interviews with Swedish consultants. The interviews are analysed by using a recently published theoretical framework focusing on practitioners' spaces for action. The analysis reveals that quality is highly open for interpretation and that consultants have a strong position for guiding quality performance, partly due to the key knowledge they hold. Their action is strongly guided by how the consultants perceive their responsibility; requiring a balance between maintaining good relationships with their clients through 'good enough' performance and maintaining a good professional reputation by undertaking what they themselves perceive as a 'best' practice. These findings indicate a need to reconsider the research in this field, promoting a shift of focus away from the dominance of quality enhancement measures and engage with issues of consultants' and other practitioners' perceptions of their responsibility in respect of quality performance. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- Kågström, Mari
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Collaboration between researchers and practitioners in environmental assessment: Introduction to the special issue
- 2023
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Ingår i: Environmental Impact Assessment Review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0195-9255 .- 1873-6432. ; 100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research and practice on environmental assessment (EA) have inspired and qualified one another for decades. Despite this long-lasting relationship, there is limited focus on the nature and the value of the collaboration in EA literature. This special issue of Environmental Impact Assessment Review entails contributions from a series of countries on how collaboration between researchers and practitioners unfolds, how it is understood, and what the value of collaboration is. The special issue thus aims to increase attention to how we collaborate in the field of EA and thereby provide a basis for more deliberate decisions on types of collaboration in the future.
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- Kågström, Mari
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Expectations. Hope and despair: professionals’ struggle to navigate multiple planning ideas in public-private collaboration
- 2020
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Ingår i: Dilemmas of sustainable urban development : A view from practice. ; , s. 217-230
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter gives insights into the practical dilemmas of collaboration in sustainable city development by recounting the experiences of a group of sustainability process managers, who struggled to work together within a private-public collaborative framework. The dilemmas are described from the perspective of the managers and their need to navigate a multitude of parallel ideas or models for the way planning should be managed and what collaboration should comprise. This situation places excessive pressure on individual professionals to resolve how to proceed, and at the same time leaves them quite ill-prepared for doing so.
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- Kågström, Mari, et al.
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Exploring researcher’ roles in collaborative spaces supporting learning in environmental assessment in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Environmental impact assessment review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0195-9255 .- 1873-6432. ; 99
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Learning is fundamental to the practice and effectiveness of environmental assessment. This paper provides new empirical insights into how researchers engage in collaboration with practitioners and the learning outcomes that this provides. Furthermore, a typology of researcher roles is provided to aid researchers in having a dialogue and navigating tensions and potentials by adopting different roles. This paper builds on researchers' engagement in three cases related to Swedish environmental assessment (EA) and planning practice. The analytical framework is brought in from the sustainability transition literature on process-oriented researcher roles.The results show that the researchers adopted several roles to provide knowledge and solutions but also to be a critical voice and support practitioner reflection. Furthermore, the work required reflexivity. It was significant that the researchers actively intervened and moved between roles to adapt to shifting needs. The processes contributed to learning in forms of reprioritisations, new routines and solutions implemented in practice. Furthermore, the process contributed to new understandings, empowerment and increased capacity among participants, e.g. through enhanced collaboration and stronger relations across disciplinary boundaries as well as enhanced knowledge and practical experience of EA key features.
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- Kågström, Mari, et al.
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Human health frames in EIA– the case of Swedish road planning
- 2013
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Ingår i: Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1461-5517 .- 1471-5465. ; 31, s. 198-207
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How human health is framed provides boundaries for choices in practice and bias for certain actions in health assessments in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). This study examines health frames in legislation and policies of importance for EIA in Swedish road planning and their implications for practice. The emphasis is on different approaches, such as promotion of health and prevention of ill-health. Indicators of the choices in practice for which the health frames exert bias are further analysed through a review of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) for road planning and comparison with a similar study conducted about 10 years ago. The indicators studied are: health determinants included, health impacts assessed, and aspects of the affected population concerned in the EISs. There are fundamentally different health frames in Swedish legislation and policies, but this range is not yet reflected in EISs, which mainly focus on environmental health rather than on broader health determinants and health equity. The results indicate that this situation becomes a dilemma for EIA practitioners and a challenge for the field.
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