The cultural landscape is a complex unit of abiotic, biotic, and cultural components that interact in different ways and form different relationships. Changes in cultural landscape diversity are closely linked with land use and property rights. This presentation is based on the premise that the main stakeholders in rural landscapes are: (1) farmers/land owners, who regard their land as property with economic value and manage it accordingly; (2) other citizens, who have expectations from a perception of public goods, and (3) experts and decision makers, who lead the development and determine the speed and magnitude of changes as well as the politics and norms regarding what is necessary, desired, or prohibited. These groups of stakeholders often lack communication amongst them. An example of a protected rural cultural landscape with its conflicts and dilemmas from Slovenia (EU) will be presented. The Ecosystem Services approach is promising in providing a better insight into the benefits that a society has based on a landscape scale. Furthermore, Ecosystem Services may be regarded in the light of the typology of goods, introduced by Ostrom and Ostrom (1977), and could have a significant role in the future decision-making of cultural landscapes, and their management and governance.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 39041581This presentation examines communally owned land as a historical and social phenomenon, and especially as a significant part of the rural landscape. As a special type of ownership form, it has been greatly influenced by general political, social, and economic situations and has been used and misused within different political contexts.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 39040557