Experiences from a National Landscape Monitoring Programme: Maintaining Continuity Whilst Meeting Changing Demands and Opportunities
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2019-04-30Metadata
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Sammendrag
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-e cient. 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.