| Abstrakt: |
The establishment of "platforms for resource use negotiation" is a promising way of dealing with complex natural resource management problems, a way of negotiating in order to avoid overexploitation and inter-user conflicts. "Innovation co-operations" then take over the task of realising the ideas developed by such platforms. The first part of this chapter introduces and discusses the concepts of platforms and innovation co-operations, which are two complementary institutions for sustainable landscape and regional development. We propose that these institutions can be the common basis for development processes run by the various stakeholders. In particular, the chapter highlights the learning processes and their characteristics that are constitutive elements of both institutions. in the second part, the chapter illustrates the concept with a concrete case. Organic farmers in the Canton of Lucerne (Switzerland) developed a platform called "Agriculture-Landscape-Economy Lucerne." It brought together representatives of different interest groups in a non-committal way. The platform provided for the joint initiation and development of project ideas. As it did not, however, offer a practicable basis for project planning and implementation, the stake holders participating in the platform founded a commercial enterprise called "Kulturland 21 Ltd." This network, consisting of people, companies, and organisations, assists the implementation of projects that serve sustainable use of the countryside, and it provides the necessary legal framework. The case shows that commitment towards specific and tangible projects requires prior reflection and the definition of goals—that is, the development of a common understanding on a non-committal basis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
