title: Evaluation of multi-level social learning for sustainable landscapes: perspective of a development initiative in Bergslagen, Sweden.
abstract: To implement policies about sustainable landscapes and rural development necessitates social learning about states and trends of sustainability indicators, norms that define sustainability, and adaptive multi-level governance. We evaluate the extent to which social learning at multiple governance levels for sustainable landscapes occur in 18 local development initiatives in the network of Sustainable Bergslagen in Sweden. We mapped activities over time, and interviewed key actors in the network about social learning. While activities resulted in exchange of experiences and some local solutions, a major challenge was to secure systematic social learning and make new knowledge explicit at multiple levels. None of the development initiatives used a systematic approach to secure social learning, and sustainability assessments were not made systematically. We discuss how social learning can be improved, and how a learning network of development initiatives could be realized.
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: Lennart
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Myhrman
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sädbom
authors.forename: Milis
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ivarsson
authors.forename: Marine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elbakidze
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cupa
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Diry
authors.forename: Frederic
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Doyon
authors.forename: Marcus K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Drotz
authors.forename: Arne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hjorth
authors.forename: Jan Olof
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Hermansson
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kullberg
authors.forename: F Henry
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Lickers
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McTaggart
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Olsson
authors.forename: Yurij
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Pautov
authors.forename: Lennart
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Svensson
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Törnblom
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D060756:Social Networking; D012939:Social Planning; D013548:Sweden