Agri-environmental collaboratives as bridging organisations in landscape management

摘要: In recent years, landscape and its management has become a focus of policies academic conceptualisation. Landscape is understood as concept interconnected natural human systems. Its must take into account the dynamic interdependencies diverging interests various stakeholders at different levels. Bridging organisations can provide an arena for trust-building, conflict resolution, learning collaboration between relevant stakeholders. This paper draws on two strands literature - governance co-management social-ecological systems to investigate contributions agri-environmental collaboratives (AEC) sustainable management. Based data from 41 interviews with key informants AEC members in Germany Netherlands, six fields were identified: policy implementation service provision; coordination mediation; awareness raising behaviour change; care 'everyday' landscapes; maintenance protection landscapes (including species habitats); income generation economic benefits. Some evolve around specific role bridging organisations, but other such benefits emerge beyond this analytical lens. The therefore emphasises holistic, bottom up assessment argues that governments should support through i) funding facilitators ii) impact monitoring