Embracing extreme weather and compound events in landscape planning: the case of reindeer husbandry in Northern Sweden

C hain reactions of extreme weather are among the most harmful consequences of climate change on theenvironment and society. However, the complexity and uncertainty involved in predicting them makes it difficult toplan for their impacts at the landscape scale – especially when different stakeholders are using that landscape fortheir respective interests.This project develops strategies for planning at the landscape scale to navigate the impacts of extreme weatherand compound events, by examining reindeer husbandry. To thrive, this livelihood depends on the interactionbetween weather and environmental variables as well as interactions with other land uses in the landscape, posinga formidable challenge for landscape planners.To understand the impacts of weather and environmental variables on key moments in the herding year, wedevelop event-based storylines that trace back the causal factors causing these impacts, and investigate how theycould develop in the future. Building on this analysis, we examine how decision-making regarding landscapeplanning in the face of extreme weather and compound events is conducted in governance bodies toaccommodate reindeer husbandry and overlapping land uses. We focus on hidden dynamics between the formaland informal. Finally, we develop alternatives to landscape planning based on our storylines based on differentnormative goals: what is to be sustained in a northern landscape increasingly confronted with compoundingextreme weather?