Complacency or resilience? Perceptions of environmental and social change in Lofoten and Vesterålen in northern Norway

Kaltenborn, Bjørn P.; Linnell, John D. C.; Thomassen, Jørn; Lindhjem, Henrik

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.01.010

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“…The positive preference for seeing both fish farms and tourism facilities along the coast is in line with results from the Kaltenborn et al (2017) survey in the Lofoten-Vesteraalen area of Arctic Norway. In this survey all marine industries in Norway were listed, and respondents were asked to indicate those with the largest potential for creating conflict.…”

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Valuing coastal recreation and the visual intrusion from commercial activities in Arctic Norway

Aanesen

Falk-Andersson

Vondolia

et al. 2018

Ocean & Coastal Management

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The coastal zone in the Arctic is being extensively used for recreational activities. Simultaneously, there is an increasing pressure from commercial activities. We present results from a discrete choice experiment implemented in Arctic Norway, revealing how households in this region make trade-offs between recreational activities and commercial developments in the coastal zone. Our results show that, although people prefer stricter regulation of commercial activities, they welcome expansion in marine industries like aquaculture and marine fishing tourism. We also find evidence of high willingness-to-pay for new jobs; and this may partly explain the preferences for the commercial facilities in spite of the visual intrusion they create. On the other hand people expressed a clear dislike for littering of the beaches. Hence, the message to policy makers is to allow for commercial development in the coastal zone, but only under strict regulations, especially related to measures reducing the amount of marine debris.

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Valuing coastal recreation and the visual intrusion from commercial activities in Arctic Norway

Aanesen

Falk-Andersson

Vondolia

et al. 2018

Ocean & Coastal Management

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“…Relevant informants were identified based on their engagement in development projects, private businesses and organizations, and public service and administration, as well as through “snow-balling” (Gobo, 2007). Therefore, this article focusses on the perspectives of those particularly engaged in petroleum and conservation issues, and does not necessarily reflect therefore the overall sentiments of the broader population in Lofoten (see Kaltenborn et al., 2017a, 2017c). The Lofoten region hosts a relatively small population and the people engaged in these debates often have multiple roles in the local communities, for example as a politician and a school teacher.…”

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“It belongs to the world.” Oil, conservation and futures in the making in Lofoten, Norway

Karlsson

Dale

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This article analyzes how debates on the potential exploration of petroleum, a World Heritage Application and the establishment of a national park in Lofoten, Northern Norway, have interacted between 2008 and 2017. By using an ontological security perspective on anticipation, we identify and analyze how local responses to petroleum and conservation processes diverge and connect over a cross-cutting set of concerns about the future. Through qualitative interviews and media analyses of local newspapers, we identify four themes of concerns over which the processes interact: the environment, jobs and demographic development, decision-making processes and livelihoods and identities. Our findings show that when played out in the same time period and geographic setting, the seemingly different development proposals of petroleum and conservation have become entangled and embedded in a broader discussion about what constitutes Lofoten today and how the region can be secured in the future. As such, the processes have mirrored each other’s style of anticipation, demonstrated by that petroleum debates span the viability and identity of coastal communities and identities, and by that conservation initiatives focus on economic generation and job creation. We argue that anticipatory practices in Lofoten are funded upon the specific human–nature relationships that characterize the region, emerging through cross-cutting concerns related to the viability of fisheries, the existence of coastal communities and the possibility of self-determination. We approach these concerns as local manifestations of sources of ontological security that influence how any future in the making are imagined, supported and resisted in the region. The article adds new perspectives to current debates on how future development directions are envisioned and enacted locally by underlining the interrelationship between the search for ontological security and anticipatory practices.

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“…The spatial and temporal scales of restoration initiatives as well as data uncertainty and availability are likely to drive the choice of restoration-related variables (Figure 2). Additionally, variables should be chosen in a participatory manner, considering the perspectives of key-actors and other stakeholders (as shown in the general framework figure in Box 2), who possess the technical expertise and on-the-ground knowledge regarding restoration drivers and their future trajectories [36].…”

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Metzger

Esler

Krug

et al. 2017

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Complacency or resilience? Perceptions of environmental and social change in Lofoten and Vesterålen in northern Norway

Abstract: Arctic and northern coastal environments are among the least developed regions in the World in terms of density of settlements, population and resource exploitation. It is often assumed that northern coastal regions will be frontiers of future change, conflict and opportunity due to

Cited by 17 publications

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Valuing coastal recreation and the visual intrusion from commercial activities in Arctic Norway

Valuing coastal recreation and the visual intrusion from commercial activities in Arctic Norway

“It belongs to the world.” Oil, conservation and futures in the making in Lofoten, Norway

Best practice for the use of scenarios for restoration planning

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