Commons Protected For or From the People: Analysis of Strategies to Establish Protected Areas in the Swedish Mountain Region

Abstract

"This dissertation will contain separate papers and the introduction will therefore outline the uniting frame, which will build on the theoretical framework described here, as well as the overall conclusions of the dissertation, in particular those derived from cross-case comparisons. The papers will develop the understanding of certain aspects of the framework by studying them in empirical cases. Each paper will primarily concentrate on one particular aspect and one case. The first paper will, however, be different, since it is a quantitative analysis of the general and specific attitudes towards co-management and protected areas in the mountain region. As such, it provides a background for the coming case study-based papers."