Chris Raymond

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Mapping landscape values for natural resources
management planning

• Chris Raymond
• Land and Biodiversity Services Division, DWLBC

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Outline

• What are landscape values?
• Why map them?
• How do you map them?
• What do the results look like?
• What are the implications for NRM planning?

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What are landscape values?

• Attachment or emotional bond that people develop
  with place
• Use value (places that provide tangible benefits)
• Economic Value
• Recreation Value
• Non-use value (places that represent ideas)
• Spiritual Value
• Future Value

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Map Layer
GIS Information
LANDSCAPE VALUES
Government assets
Commercial activity
Wildfire threat
Salinity
Threatened species
Water quality
Soil type
Towns and suburbs
Planning Study Index Reference
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Why map landscape values?

• Lack of systematic methods for identifying and
  integrating community values into NRM
• Values are linked to political acceptability of
  land-use decisions
• Integral to Goal 3 of the State NRM Plan (Peoples
  and Communities)
• 3.4.4 Seek and value the knowledge, skills and
  expertise of local people, including Aboriginal
  landholders, in planning and on-ground delivery
• Identify place-specific priorities for NRM
  investment.

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How do you map landscape values?

• Sample
• Survey Instrument
• Map
• Landscape Values Typology
• Survey Mail Out (Dillman TDM)
• Data Entry
• Results Analysis

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What do the results look like?Case Study 1
Otways Region of Victoria
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Hotspot analysis of aesthetic value
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Hotspot analysis of spiritual value
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Hotspot analysis of tourism developmentpreference
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West Central Alberta, Canada
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Implications for NRM planning

• Systematic and representative process
• Transparent
• Identify areas of values conflict and special
  management concern
• Overlay with other land attributes for integrated
  resource management
• Recognises the role of non-use values in resource
  decision making
• Provides a baseline for monitoring and evaluation

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References

• Brown, G. 2005. Mapping spatial attributes in
  survey research for natural resource management
  Methods and applications. Society and Natural
  Resources 18(1)17-39.
• Brown, G., and Raymond, C. (2007) The
  relationship between place attachment and
  landscape values Toward mapping place
  attachment. Applied Geography 27(2)89-111.
• Raymond, C., and Brown, G. (2006) A method for
  assessing protected area allocations using a
  typology of landscape values. Journal of
  Environmental Planning and Management
  49(6)797-812.
• Raymond, C., and Brown, G. (2007). A spatial
  method for assessing resident and visitor
  attitudes toward tourism growth and development.
  Journal of Sustainable Tourism. Anticipated
  publication in Volume 15, issue 4 or 5..