ELICITING LANDSCAPE VALUES THROUGH PARTICIPATORY MAPPING AND ORAL HISTORIES Nora FAGERHOLM, Tobias PLIENINGER, Claudia BIELING, Matthias BÜRGI & María Garcia MARTIN University of Copenhagen, Denmark, ncf@ign.ku.dk & tobias.plieninger@ign.ku.dk University of Freiburg, Germany, claudia.bieling@uni-hohenheim.de & maria.garcia@landespflege.uni-freiburg.de Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland,matthias.buergi@wsl.ch This paper highlights the contribution of subjective place meanings and landscape values to understanding landscape identity, sense of place and, eventually, cultural sustainability. We address participatory mapping of subjective place-based landscape practices and experiences as a practical planning and management approach and tool for cultural landscapes. With an internet survey applying public participation GIS (PPGIS) methods, local actors in the landscape are invited to create place-based knowledge on landscape practices, perceptions, values and meanings. As participatory mapping is successful in bringing the subjective human practice in and experience of the landscape into spatial presentations, the advantage is to understand the landscape values rising from the individual experience as collective presentations. However, oral histories may play an important role in creating in-depth understanding on the role of culture, heritage, history and perceptions of landscape change in shaping these mapped values, and communicates a complimentary perspective to the values assigned to specific places in the landscape. Hence, in this paper we discuss eliciting landscape values through two different approaches, participatory mapping and oral histories, complementing each other with examples from European cultural landscapes addressed in the EU FP 7 project HERCULES. Potential implications of the presented approaches to landscape planning and management in terms of cultural sustainability will also be discussed.