ABSTRACT
A more sound ecological use of our landscapes has had a central role in landscape and physical planning since the environmental debate started in the 1970s. New dimensions have been added since the Brundtland Report announced the necessity of finding ways of ensuring sustainable development and emphasised changes in social institutions as an integrated part of sustainable development, since social institutions are the most important carriers of both obstacles and enabling factors for the transition process (World Commission on Environment and Development 1987).
