In Arctic and northern communities, livelihoods and land use depend heavily on natural resources. Decision-making processes around the use of natural resources are often contested and given their importance to these communities the participation of local stakeholders is vital. This timely book presents practices that have been developed with key stakeholders to improve the collection and utilization of locally relevant knowledge in land use planning. Chapters illustrate how indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) can be made spatially explicit by using, for example, participatory GIS. Focusing on countries including Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Ireland, Finland, Norway and Sweden, this book pays particular attention to the recognized challenges of these regions, including the relationships between local and national actors and indigenous and other local populations. Sharing Knowledge for Land Use Management will be a key resource for students and researchers of geography, planning, regional and tourism studies as well as planning authorities and consultants, offering new ideas and tools for the inclusion of local knowledge in decision making processes.

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Contents: Preface xiv 1 Building shared knowledge capital to support natural resource governance in the northern periphery: concepts and challenges 1 John McDonagh, Seija Tuulentie and Ari Nikula 2 Indigenous and local knowledge in land use planning: a comparative analysis 16 Minna Turunen, Inkeri Markkula, Karl Brix Zinglersen, Hans Holt Poulsen, Per Sandström and Stefan Sandström 3 Whose knowledge is it anyway? Apprehensions around sharing knowledge of natural resources in the northern peripheries 29 Seija Tuulentie, Gun Lidestav, Inkeri Markkula, Karl Brix Zinglersen, Marie Søndergaard and Minna Turunen 4 Traditional knowledge and natural resource governance: a gender perspective 42 Gun Lidestav, Ragnhei›ur Bogadóttir, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Eva-Lisa Myntti, Per Sandström and Stefan Sandström 5 Who is the public and where is participation in participatory GIS and public participation GIS 55 Stefan Sandström, Per Sandström and Ari Nikula 6 PPGIS for a better understanding of people’s values: experiences from Finland and the Faroe Islands 70 Ari Nikula, Minna Turunen, Ragnhei›ur Bogadóttir, Inkeri Markkula and Sini Kantola 7 The contradictory role of tourism in the northern peripheries: overcrowding, overtourism and the importance of tourism for rural development 86 Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Seija Tuulentie, Gestur Hovgaard, Karl Brix Zinglersen, Marita Svartá, Hans Holt Poulsen and Marie Søndergaard 8 ‘Nothing is sustainable the way it is’ – reflections on local sustainability perceptions and interpretations 100 John McDonagh, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Louise Weir, Marie Mahon, Maura Farrell and Therese Conway 9 ‘There’s no transfer of knowledge, it’s all one way’ – the importance of integrating local knowledge and fostering knowledge sharing practices in natural resource utilisation 116 John McDonagh, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Louise Weir, Marie Mahon, Maura Farrell, Johannes Welling and Therese Conway 10 ‘Who knew digitizing and dialogue could change the course of reindeer herding rights? We know, now’: building bridges between knowledge systems and over highways 130 Per Sandström, Eva-Lisa Myntti, Stefan Sandström, Niklas Jonsson, Gun Lidestav and Tobias Jonsson 11 Social licence to operate: is local acceptance of economic development enhancing social sustainability? 144 Leena Suopajärvi, Arvid Viken, Gaute Svensson and Sanna Pettersson 12 Participation, local knowledge and decision-making: challenging the boundaries, realizing the opportunities 160 John McDonagh and Seija Tuulentie Index 171