Integration of constitutive impacts in spatial planning
The results suggest that consideration of constitutive social impacts (Table 2) is the basic requirement for a management process that takes stakeholders’ relationships, concerns and prospects into account. These impacts refer to (i) constitutive personal impacts, addressing people’s community identification and connections as well as (ii) constitutive development impacts, addressing the expected effects of changes in land use and the perceptions and aspirations concerning new developments in general (Fig. 3 and Table 2). From the stakeholder point of view, these impacts are of fundamental concern to any course of action and determine access to the regional actors. To meet the constitutive social impacts within planning sessions, it is necessary, from the researchers’ side, to communicate goals transparently and in understandable terms.