Nature benefits in Trøndelag
Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA)
Last updated on November 18, 2025.
Foto: Jørn Fremstad, 2020
The landscapes in which we live consist of a mix of different land-use types such as urban settlements, agriculture, forests as well as natural (protected) areas. Landscapes change continuously, shaped by our activities as well as natural processes.
Human activities and natural processes may affect the benefits we gain from nature, such as berry-picking, outdoor recreation, or flood protection. To ensure that we can keep on benefiting from nature surrounding us, it is important to understand how and where people actually benefit from nature.
In the international research project PAREUS (see box), we wish to promote a network of areas that on one hand protect biodiversity while at the same time accounts for different human activities such as recreation, agriculture or water flow control. This will help to fulfill the global 30x30 target of protecting 30% of land areas by 2030 at a regional scale.
About the PAREUS research project
The central hypothesis of PAREUS is that biodiversity targets and land degradation neutrality can only be achieved both effectively and equitably through a combination of land sparing and land sharing approaches. While areas of land sparing represent classical protected areas (PA), land sharing approaches built on the concept of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECM). This hypothesis will be addressed through the following research questions:
- What opportunities exist for strengthening existing PA networks in the case study regions, and what lessons can be learned that can be applied to establishing a coherent network of protected areas?
- How can coherent networks of PAs be established through the inclusion of complementary OECM in the wider countryside within current spatial planning practice?
- What are the linkages between coherent PA networks and the implementation of the sustainable landscape and land degradation neutrality concepts for biodiversity and what are the potential conflicts and trade-offs that arise thereof for society?
- Does an integrated suite of landscape approaches help us ratcheting up the EU BDS2030 towards its 30x30 target?
We need your knowledge
With your local knowledge, you can help us understand where people in Trøndelag benefit from nature in different ways.
Your input, along with other participants’, will help create a map showing important nature-benefit areas in the coastal, inland, and mountain regions of Trøndelag.
We will ask you to mark areas for 10 different nature benefits. Don’t worry if you don’t know all of them—you can indicate your confidence in the study.
Please note the following points
- Please use a desktop or laptop for the study—not a mobile device.
- The study has three blocks of nature-benefit mapping. You can’t save your work within a block, but you can save and take a break after each one.
- When asked, please provide your email address so you can continue with the next block later.
- Each block should take about 20 minutes to complete.
- Within the first block you will receive further details about the study, GDPR information, and a short practice session to get familiar with the mapping tool
- To begin, click on the Trøndelag landscape you know best in the map below. Then follow the link that appears to start the first block of mapping.
Contact
In case of any technical issues or study related question please contact: Technical support