Landscape Identity, Well-Being, and Climate-Driven Disturbances in Southern Sweden

Climate-driven disturbances, including changing water levels, increased
precipitation and flooding, intensified storms, and water shortages and
droughts are threatening the sustainability of communities in southern
Sweden. However, our understanding of how individuals experience and
adapt to such disturbances is limited, especially as it relates to how place
theory, and in particular landscape identity, can help foster enhanced
well-being for vulnerable communities. The objective of this study is to
understand how individuals of Skåne, Sweden identify with their local
environment, and how that identity has changed, or will be changed, as a
result of a changing climate. A better understanding of people-place
relationships is needed; specifically, how people identify with local
landscapes because of the long-standing body of knowledge related to
place identity, and the growing scholarship on the use of landscape as a
conceptual framework for climate adaptation and mitigation, especially
supporting well-being.