Social and Cultural Sustainability: Criteria, Indicators, Verifier Variables for Measurement and Maps for Visualization to Support Planning |
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Authors: | Robert Axelsson Per Angelstam Erik Degerman Sara Teitelbaum Kjell Andersson Marine Elbakidze Marcus K Drotz |
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Institution: | 1. Faculty of Forest Sciences, School for Forest Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 43, 739 21, Skinnskatteberg, Sweden 2. Faculty of Forest Sciences, School for Forest Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 43, 730 91, Skinnskatteberg, Sweden 3. Faculty of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Freshwater Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 702 15, ?rebro, Sweden 4. Université du Québec à Montréal, P.O. Box 888, Centre-ville Station, Montreal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada 5. The Lake V?nern Museum of Natural and Cultural History [V?nermuseet], Framn?sv?gen 2, 531 54, Lidk?ping, Sweden
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Abstract: | Policies on economic use of natural resources require considerations to social and cultural values. In order to make those concrete in a planning context, this paper aims to interpret social and cultural criteria, identify indicators, match these with verifier variables and visualize them on maps. Indicators were selected from a review of scholarly work and natural resource policies, and then matched with verifier variables available for Sweden’s 290 municipalities. Maps of the spatial distribution of four social and four cultural verifier variables were then produced. Consideration of social and cultural values in the studied natural resource use sectors was limited. The spatial distribution of the verifier variables exhibited a general divide between northwest and south Sweden, and regional rural and urban areas. We conclude that it is possible to identify indicators and match them with verifier variables to support inclusion of social and cultural values in planning. |
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Keywords: | Municipality Policy implementation Sustainable development Sweden |
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