The role of the planner for resolving conflicts in the cooperative local landscape planning
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1999
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Relevance for planning knowledge
The resolution ot the environmental conference of Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and the passed
Agenda 21 suggest a special resonsibilities to the communities for the solution of
environmental problems in the next century. Landscape planning as a tried and tested
instrument is at the german communities disposal, to enable environmental planning for development in the precaution prinicple.
The task of local landscape planning is to describe the local requirements and measures for realising the aims of the german national nature protection law and also to put these aims into practise (BNatSchG § 1(1)). Local landscape planning specifies ideas concerning nature and landscape of the higher levels of planning in the country- and regional planning; it prepares the decisive steps for realising these contents. In landscape planning many objecitve and connected social conflicts are raised on the way to sustainibility. Conflicts of this kind often occur between individual local interests and the general interest in nature protection (Hardin 1968). These conflicts can grow so affecting that the success of landscape planning is in danger and it has been often spoken of it's failure (Rat von Sachverständigen für Umweltfragen 1987 T2 411; Kiemstedt et al. 1996:1, Egli et at. 1995).
This is why it is very important for the practice of planning, to give the planner insight and tools to be able to handle the appeard conflicts in a constructive way. It is the aim of this
work, to develop a procedure and a method of planning, which does not only deliver professional good results but also facilitate the handling and resolving of conflicts and enable the communities, to really grasp the suggested responsibilty for nature protection (Apel 1993). This knowledge can be used in every kind of environmental planning and in the same way in the local Agenda 21 process, in the practical nature protection or in the environmental education.
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Book of abstracts : AESOP PhD workshop 1999, Finse, Depertment of Geography Univeristy of Bergen, Norway
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