title: Social and cultural sustainability: criteria, indicators, verifier variables for measurement and maps for visualization to support planning.
abstract: Policies on economic use of natural resources require considerations to social and cultural values. In order to make those concrete in a planning context, this paper aims to interpret social and cultural criteria, identify indicators, match these with verifier variables and visualize them on maps. Indicators were selected from a review of scholarly work and natural resource policies, and then matched with verifier variables available for Sweden's 290 municipalities. Maps of the spatial distribution of four social and four cultural verifier variables were then produced. Consideration of social and cultural values in the studied natural resource use sectors was limited. The spatial distribution of the verifier variables exhibited a general divide between northwest and south Sweden, and regional rural and urban areas. We conclude that it is possible to identify indicators and match them with verifier variables to support inclusion of social and cultural values in planning.
authors.affiliation: School for Forest Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skinnskatteberg, Sweden. robert.axelsson@slu.se
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Axelsson
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Angelstam
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Degerman
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Teitelbaum
authors.forename: Kjell
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.forename: Marine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elbakidze
authors.forename: Marcus K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Drotz
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003469:Culture; D005843:Geography; D057766:Policy; D011050:Policy Making; D012939:Social Planning; D012945:Social Values; D013548:Sweden