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Chapter 12
Discursive Relationships Between
Landscape Science, Policy and
Management Practice: Concepts, Issues
and Examples
Simon Swaffield, Jorgen Primdahl and Mark Hoversten
Abstract Different approaches have been proposed to help the science of land-
scape ecology achieve greater policy relevance. A common feature is the central
role of landscape scientists as experts in solving 'place based problems' in effective
ways. In practice however landscape ecologists have seldom had the impact they
seek. This chapter uses concepts drawn from deliberative planning and case
examples from the USA and Denmark to critically examine the science-practice
interface between landscape ecology and landscape planning. It highlights the way
that different roles, values, and interests interact at different stages in place based
studies, and this may require a re-framing of landscape ecological science to
become part of a multivalent discourse about landscape conditions and possibilities.
Keywords Deliberative planning
Landscape democracy
Place making
Spatial strategy
12.1 Introduction
Landscape ecology seeks greater practical and policy relevance (Wu and Hobbs
2002
). As Hobbs (
1997
: 1) has noted, ''The future of landscape ecology depends
on whether landscape ecologists make the decision to take an active part in
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