Experiences from a National Landscape Monitoring Programme—Maintaining Continuity Whilst Meeting Changing Demands and Opportunities

Grete Stokstad and Wendy Fjellstad
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Grete Stokstad: NIBIO Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Department of Landscape Monitoring, NO-1431 Ås, Norway
Wendy Fjellstad: NIBIO Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Department of Landscape Monitoring, NO-1431 Ås, Norway

Land, 2019, vol. 8, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: Over the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in recording landscape change. Monitoring programmes have been established to measure the scope, direction and rate of change, and assess the consequences of changes for multiple interests, such as biodiversity, cultural heritage and recreation. The results can provide feedback for multiple sectors and policy domains. Political interests may change over time, but long-term monitoring demands long-term funding. This requires that monitoring programmes remain relevant and cost-efficient. In this paper, we document experiences from 20 years of the Norwegian Monitoring Programme for Agricultural Landscapes—the ‘3Q Programme’. We explain how data availability and demands for information have changed over time, and how the monitoring programme has been adapted to remain relevant. We also discuss how methods of presentation influence the degree of knowledge transfer to stakeholders, in particular to policy makers.

Keywords: landscape; monitoring; agriculture; land use change; aerial photograph interpretation; landscape indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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