Discursive Relationships Between Landscape Science, Policy and Management Practice: Concepts, Issues and Examples - Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture - page 232

Fig. 12.2 Landscape strategy for the parish of Lihme. Key elements in the strategy are: new
walking trails (not shown on the map), a new village forest, new 'rural subdivisions', new system
of green corridor, new development plan for the habour. Source Primdahl et al. ( 2010 )
efficient. However, such expert generated patterns cannot substitute or function as
principal 'design solutions' for local rural landscapes. Local ownership of the
design is essential if a landscape strategy plan is going to function as a frame for the
innumerable decisions and actions taken by individuals and groups driving land-
scape change processes over time. One way to envisage this relationship between
experts and locals in generating patterns is that the expert role is enabling, offering a
spatial language and helping locals interweave the systematic knowledge of land-
scape ecology into their distinctive and evolving local landscape biography.