Marte Lange Vik

Marte Lange Vik is an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her work focuses on integrating knowledge for sustainable development through landscape geography, spatial planning, and public participation in environmental management.

• Teaches courses in Climate Adaptation in Spatial Planning, Cultural Heritage Management, and Land Use Planning.
• Research emphasizes sustainable urbanization, co-production of knowledge in planning, and implementation of the European Landscape Convention.
• Leads projects FIELD OF GOALS (integrating UNSDGs in regional planning) and REPEAT (sustainable peatland use).

Her career spans roles in municipal planning, sustainable tourism research at Western Norway Research Institute, and a PhD in Landscape Geography from NTNU (2015), focusing on landscape practices and democratic processes in Norway and Denmark.