Mapping and analysis of landscape diversity in Norway
Informations
- Funding country
Norway- Acronym
- -
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 1/1/2016
- End date
- 12/31/2020
- Budget
- 229,026 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Sector PhD Project | Grant | - | - | 229,026 EUR |
Abstract
There is an increasing demand for detailed information about the landscape within land management and land use planning in Norway. The new National nature diversity strategy (Ministry of Climate and Environment 2015) emphasizes the importance of increased knowledge of nature's diversity, and the need for habitat- and landscape type mapping throughout the Norwegian territory. New knowledge is needed in a number of areas, to enhance the landscape type maps under production, and to ensure that the results of the ongoing survey of landscape types shall be applicable for further research and relevant to land use planning and management. This PhD project, which is a collaboration between the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Environment Agency, is designed to address these issues. In 2017, a world-wide and systematic review of contemporary international approaches to landscape characterisation was completed and published. In 2018, a novel classification of landscapes in Norway was finalised, based on analyses of the variation in landscape properties from more than 4000 observation units (landscape areas). The new Norwegian landscape classification was published in 2019. The results from these studies have been used as a framework to understand and predict the diversity and distribution of ecosystem types in Norway.