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This project addressed the issue of fragmented management of cultural landscape due to changing land use and ownership, diverse values and interests held by various sectors and protected by individual Acts and legal instruments. This fragmentation makes integrated landscape management a challenge and leads to tension in the local planning system. How do we manage interactions across and between designated objects/sites and everyday landscapes? The project aimed to answer such questions by developing new knowledge that could be incorporated into management policy and practice to facilitate integration of values and uses of cultural landscape within the local planning and development process. Main research was based on the case-study of Austrått, a manorial landscape in Ørland peninsular with particular natural, cultural heritage and military significances. The research had direct benefits to the policy and practice of Austrått and Ørland development by providing new knowledge and working strategy for an integrated management. Research findings will also be transferrable to other localities and regions with similar challenges. For further information about ”From Fragmented to Integrated Landscape Management. Values of Green Cultural Heritage and Implications for Future Policies and Practises, 2017”, please contact the principal investigator.