KnowledgeScapes
The overarching aim of KnowledgeScapes is to explore and improve participatory methods that contribute to knowledge exchange and knowledge-based land and sea-use management.
- Project period
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- Funders
- The Fram Centre
- Total budget (NOK)
- 4,497,000
- Research section
- Water and society
- Contact person
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Kathrine Ivsett Johnsen
About the project
The full title of the project is “Overcoming obstacles of knowledge exchange: Tools and methods for inclusive land and sea-use decisions”.
By employing multiple social science methods, KnowledgeScapes assesses what and whose knowledge is used in decision–making and the reasons why experience-based knowledge is often excluded. The project will use the planned Nussir copper mine in Hammerfest municipality as a case study to:
- Explore what knowledge politicians (local, regional and national) base their land- and sea-use decisions upon;
- Map traditional/local knowledge and right-holders’ concerns related to landscape and seascape changes; and
- Facilitate a knowledge exchange and a dialogue between right-holders and politicians to explore more inclusive decision-making.
The project scope can be categorized along two dimensions: a land-sea dimension and a politician-civil society dimension.
The project is led by NIKU, with partners from NIVA, NORCE and NOFIMA.