TY - JOUR

T1 - New Human-landscape Relations in the Face of Global Environmental Crises

T2 - A Governance Scoping Statement Based On the Danish Agri-food Transition

AU - Blok, Anders

AU - Løvschal, Mette

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s).

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - The current global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, waterway pollution, and land-system change need far-reaching collective action, with major implications for future human-landscape relations. However, whereas there has been a radical acceleration in green solutions brought forward within science and technology, less attention has been paid to their social integration and long-term sustainability. Based on experiences with a large-scale Danish agri-food transition expert scenario exercise, this commentary scopes ideas for further research on how to accelerate a socially sensitive agri-food transition with clear visionary goals for radically new and sustainable human-landscape relations and forms of governance. We argue that this should be a process of making liveable landscapes, countryside spaces and cities, and one that 1) builds on trust, public embedment, and co-creation; 2) regards humans as part of nature; and 3) is inclusive and fair—locally and globally.

AB - The current global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, waterway pollution, and land-system change need far-reaching collective action, with major implications for future human-landscape relations. However, whereas there has been a radical acceleration in green solutions brought forward within science and technology, less attention has been paid to their social integration and long-term sustainability. Based on experiences with a large-scale Danish agri-food transition expert scenario exercise, this commentary scopes ideas for further research on how to accelerate a socially sensitive agri-food transition with clear visionary goals for radically new and sustainable human-landscape relations and forms of governance. We argue that this should be a process of making liveable landscapes, countryside spaces and cities, and one that 1) builds on trust, public embedment, and co-creation; 2) regards humans as part of nature; and 3) is inclusive and fair—locally and globally.

KW - Adaptive governance

KW - agri-food transition

KW - collective action problems

KW - democratic participation

KW - human-landscape relations, multiscale solutions

U2 - 10.16993/rl.112

DO - 10.16993/rl.112

M3 - Comment/debate

AN - SCOPUS:85180888331

VL - 10

SP - 1

EP - 7

JO - Rural Landscapes

JF - Rural Landscapes

SN - 2002-0104

IS - 1

M1 - 3

ER -