Protected area management in a post-natural world: negotiated governance at the Danish Wadden Sea

Abstract National parks and other large protected areas play an increasingly important role in the context of global social environmental challenges. Nevertheless, they continue to be rooted local places cannot separated out from their socio-cultural historical context. Protected furthermore are understood constitute critical sites struggle whereby very meanings nature, landscape, nature-society relations up for debate. This paper examines governance arrangements discursive practices pertaining management Danish Wadden Sea Park reflects on relationship between pluralist institutional structures pluralist, relational understandings nature landscape.