Łódź, Poland | 11-15 July
Abstract
The landscape crisis (Antrop, 2017) and the climate crisis (Williams et al., 2022) strongly affect coastal landscapes in many coastal regions worldwide. Several authors have argued for the need for evolved coastal governance systems to deal with the changes and challenges to governance to foster alternative futures (Partelow et al., 2020, Schlüter et al., 2020). On the one hand, the challenges ahead demand the recognition of the coastal zone as a socio-ecological system, where territorial or administrative boundaries cannot limit its governance anymore (Schlüter et al., 2020). On the other hand, landscape governance has been discussed as the spatialisation of environmental governance where the boundaries of the socio-ecological system are the system to be governed (Görg, 2007, Van Oosten, 2021). Gonçalves and Pinho (2022) explored and discussed landscape governance’s relevance to advance coastal governance. The authors demonstrated that theoretically and empirically, coastal landscape governance is rarely addressed in the scientific debate, despite its added value (Gonçalves and Pinho, 202X). This abstract addresses this research gap, exploring if elements of coastal landscape governance are already in place in Portugal. In order to do so, we develop an evolutionary perspective on coastal and landscape governance in Portugal since the 1950s. Results will be confronted with the international evolution of coastal and landscape debate and practice and reinterpreted in the Portuguese context to advance coastal landscape governance forward. The discussion of the evolutionary perspective of coastal landscape governance will allow us to better understand the instruments, institutions, and actors in place as well as the changes that are needed to address the coastal socio-ecological system from an integrated perspective.
Keywords
Coastal landscape governance;
Socio-ecological boundaries;
Policy integration;
Landscape sustainability;
Evolutionary Governance Theory.
References
Antrop, M. 2017. Balancing heritage and innovation-the landscape perspectives. Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, BSGLg, 69, 41-51.
Gonçalves, C. & Pinho, P. 202X. A manifesto for coastal landscape governance: reframing the relationship between coastal and landscape governance. Land Use Policy – Working paper submitted (in review).
Gonçalves, C. & Pinho, P. 2022. In search of coastal landscape governance: a review of its conceptualisation, operationalisation and research needs. Sustainability Science, 17, 2093-2111.
Görg, C. 2007. Landscape governance. The “politics of scale” and the “natural” conditions of places. Geoforum, 38, 954-966.
Partelow, S., Schlüter, A., Armitage, D., Bavinck, M., Carlisle, K., Gruby, R. L., Hornidge, A. K., Le Tissier, M., Pittman, J. B., Song, A. M., Sousa, L. P., Văidianu, N. & Van Assche, K. 2020. Environmental governance theories: a review and application to coastal systems. Ecology and Society, 25, 1-21.
Schlüter, A., Van Assche, K., Hornidge, A. K. & Văidianu, N. 2020. Land-sea interactions and coastal development: An evolutionary governance perspective. Marine Policy, 112.
Van Oosten, C. 2021. Landscape Governance – from analysing challenges to capacitating stakeholders. PhD, Wageningen University.
Williams, B. A., Watson, J. E. M., Beyer, H. L., Klein, C. J., Montgomery, J., Runting, R. K., Roberson, L. A., Halpern, B. S., Grantham, H. S., Kuempel, C. D., Frazier, M., Venter, O. & Wenger, A. 2022. Global rarity of intact coastal regions. Conservation Biology, n/a, e13874.
Funding
Carla Gonçalves was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the Doctoral Grant UI/BD/151233/2021.
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