Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest Governance
A widespread governance response to land use conflict is to seek improved communication through the employment of dialogue-based instruments. In this paper, we interrogate the guiding presupposition that conflict can be planned away through a case study on the Reindeer Husbandry Plan (Renbruksplan)...
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A widespread governance response to land use conflict is to seek improved communication through the employment of dialogue-based instruments. In this paper, we interrogate the guiding presupposition that conflict can be planned away through a case study on the Reindeer Husbandry Plan (Renbruksplan), a tool used to address land use conflicts between industrial forestry and Indigenous Sámi reindeer herding. Drawing on critical policy analysis and environmental justice frameworks, we analyze the problematizations, silences, and effects emerging from the tool’s use in forestry planning and land use decisions. Our findings reveal that, operating in its current institutional and legal context, the tool offers limited improvements in procedural justice, exacerbates unequal distribution of burdens and benefits in terms of who gets to use forest resources, privileging a forestry-centered representation of the land use conflict. We therefore conclude that, in absence of institutional reform, the tool is likely to perpetuate conflicts and continue to reproduce the injustices embedded in Swedish forest and land use governance.
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| spelling | doaj-art-94c9b36dc2a8475e8a5e294c0febd9cc2025-01-27T10:23:58ZengCappelen Damm Akademisk NOASPArctic Review on Law and Politics2387-45622025-01-011610.23865/arctic.v16.6298Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest GovernanceAnnette Löf0Rasmus Kløcker Larsen1Felicia Fahlin2Stockholm Environment Institute and Dept. of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SwedenStockholm Environment Institute & Centre for Health and Sustainability, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, SwedenThe Institute for Future Studies, Sweden A widespread governance response to land use conflict is to seek improved communication through the employment of dialogue-based instruments. In this paper, we interrogate the guiding presupposition that conflict can be planned away through a case study on the Reindeer Husbandry Plan (Renbruksplan), a tool used to address land use conflicts between industrial forestry and Indigenous Sámi reindeer herding. Drawing on critical policy analysis and environmental justice frameworks, we analyze the problematizations, silences, and effects emerging from the tool’s use in forestry planning and land use decisions. Our findings reveal that, operating in its current institutional and legal context, the tool offers limited improvements in procedural justice, exacerbates unequal distribution of burdens and benefits in terms of who gets to use forest resources, privileging a forestry-centered representation of the land use conflict. We therefore conclude that, in absence of institutional reform, the tool is likely to perpetuate conflicts and continue to reproduce the injustices embedded in Swedish forest and land use governance. https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/6298land use conflictforestryreindeer herdingland use plansforest governanceparticipatory land use planning |
| spellingShingle | Annette Löf Rasmus Kløcker Larsen Felicia Fahlin Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest Governance Arctic Review on Law and Politics land use conflict forestry reindeer herding land use plans forest governance participatory land use planning |
| title | Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest Governance |
| title_full | Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest Governance |
| title_fullStr | Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest Governance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest Governance |
| title_short | Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest Governance |
| title_sort | can conflict be planned away a critical assessment of participatory land use planning in swedish forest governance |
| topic | land use conflict forestry reindeer herding land use plans forest governance participatory land use planning |
| url | https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/6298 |
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