The Swedish Centre for Nature Interpretation, CNV, was established in 2007 by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences with the
aim of it serving as a meeting place, a centre for development and a competence resource
for all nature interpreters in Sweden.
Nature interpretation can be defined as developing knowledge of and feelings for
nature and the cultural landscape. Nature interpreters are people occupied with nature
interpretation and employed at places such as government authorities, visitor
centres, companies, museums and non-profit organisations.
There are many ways to enrich and enlarge nature experiences, for instance guiding, information paths, signs and books, as well as the visitor centres called Naturum. The purpose of CNV is to develop the methods and perspectives of nature interpretation and to take care of the experience of nature interpretation that is to be found in associations, companies and authorities.
CNV is located at the Department of Urban and Rural Development at Ultuna in Uppsala but applied work will also be conducted in Tyresta National Park. CNV will not perform research on its own but has a task to be a research initiator and to have a close relationship with the research at the department.
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