8 Innovations for Sustainable Land Management …
157
Maintenance of CL
and heritage
Biodiversity and conservaƟon
Income and cost recovery
maintain agricultural land
AƩracƟve scenery
Fig. 8.1 Collaborative landscape management integrates different interests and pools resources
from actors of different sectors to manage and develop a traditional cultural landscape including
the typical attractive scenery, cultural heritage, biodiversity and cost recovery (own source)
tasks involving social learning, information and acceptance by the populace.
Although there is also a concrete political goal in Germany to reduce excessive
land consumption, there is not yet a corresponding administrative position that
addresses “land management” as a cross-sectional issue. Therefore, the projects
filled that “blind spot”, albeit in different ways. The INOLA project, for example,
tasks a citizens’ foundation with pursuing the goal of achieving the regional
energy transition. The foundation was initiated by citizenship interests and political will, and was eventually given a political mandate by its founding rural
districts (Landkreise).
Other projects established citizens’ initiatives to coordinate actions of different
actor groups towards the common goal/interest of cultural landscape management.
8.4.3 Steering Innovation Processes
All projects were invited by the application call to implement a transdisciplinary
research approach that brings together different actors from science and practice,
integrating their perspectives and interests. This requirement is based on the assumption that the process design and development of sustainability innovations plays an
important role in the transformation towards the socially responsible use of land and
natural resources.
Innovations in integrated sustainable land management (or sustainability innovations) also differ from the more classic (product, process, marketing or organisational)
innovations studied in economics. Besides addressing economic exploitation structures, they also seek, among other things, to achieve the multifunctionality of agrarian
157
Maintenance of CL
and heritage
Biodiversity and conservaƟon
Income and cost recovery
maintain agricultural land
AƩracƟve scenery
Fig. 8.1 Collaborative landscape management integrates different interests and pools resources
from actors of different sectors to manage and develop a traditional cultural landscape including
the typical attractive scenery, cultural heritage, biodiversity and cost recovery (own source)
tasks involving social learning, information and acceptance by the populace.
Although there is also a concrete political goal in Germany to reduce excessive
land consumption, there is not yet a corresponding administrative position that
addresses “land management” as a cross-sectional issue. Therefore, the projects
filled that “blind spot”, albeit in different ways. The INOLA project, for example,
tasks a citizens’ foundation with pursuing the goal of achieving the regional
energy transition. The foundation was initiated by citizenship interests and political will, and was eventually given a political mandate by its founding rural
districts (Landkreise).
Other projects established citizens’ initiatives to coordinate actions of different
actor groups towards the common goal/interest of cultural landscape management.
8.4.3 Steering Innovation Processes
All projects were invited by the application call to implement a transdisciplinary
research approach that brings together different actors from science and practice,
integrating their perspectives and interests. This requirement is based on the assumption that the process design and development of sustainability innovations plays an
important role in the transformation towards the socially responsible use of land and
natural resources.
Innovations in integrated sustainable land management (or sustainability innovations) also differ from the more classic (product, process, marketing or organisational)
innovations studied in economics. Besides addressing economic exploitation structures, they also seek, among other things, to achieve the multifunctionality of agrarian