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Chapter 2 explores recreation and tourism practices in forest areas in the Atlantic region, which refers to the geographical area close to the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic countries described in this section are Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, although there is no specific data for Northern Ireland in the survey) (Fig. 2.1). In this chapter, instead of always focussing on the level of the country, we sometimes refer to a region within a country. This region might be largely political-administrative independent or geomorphologically distinct. Good examples are the regions of Flanders and Wallonia in Belgium and Scotland, England and Wales in the United Kingdom (UK), where there are separate administrations and forestry policies, organisations and support systems. We have chosen to describe them predominantly at the country level.
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Source: Eurostat (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home)and Federale Overheidsdienst Economie, KMO, Middenstand en Energie (http://statbel.fgov.be/figures/dsp2003_nl.asp)
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Under the England Forest Strategy woodland managers are required to balance social and environmental benefits with economically viable woodland management.
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There are a lot of functions that are (partly) incompatible on a certain location – e.g. draining wet areas and having beavers in the same area – but if no human actors consider the incompability as a problem, is it not regarded as a conflict here. The situation might be considered as a problem by future generations and therefore relevant to consider in relation to sustainability.
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Competence is here understood as the power/right to enforce a certain spatial practice or state, e.g. landowners have competence to decide on land use within the legal frames that has been given by the authorities due to their spatial competences. See Hägerstrand (1995) for further discussion about competences and space.
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Elands, B. et al. (2010). Atlantic Region. In: Pröbstl, U., Wirth, V., Elands, B., Bell, S. (eds) Management of Recreation and Nature Based Tourism in European Forests. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03145-8_2
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