Towards a Sustainable Landscape: Constructing Identities and Ambitions in a Citizen Initiative in the Making

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

I find the article very interesting and very well done. The reader can get many new insights from it, which he can use in his practice.

I have only one comment on the article, which concerns chap. 2.8 Methods for data analysis, which has to be improved. Please, give more details on used methods, e.g. give some examples of coding.

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Reviewer 2 Report

This manuscript shows the process and results of in-depth qualitative research. Despite its strong potentials, I suggest the authors to revise the following things. 

- This paper lacks a theoretical review of citizen initiatives and identity. The research questions that the authors raised are considered theoretically important and critical. The conceptual discussion itself has significant contribution to academic research. 

- In addition, the paper needs to clarify the concept of citizen initiative. Is it a term that academics usually use? If not, can we consider it as a new concept that academics should study? 

- The method could be written as a grounded theory approach. Or the authors need to clarify the logic of the paper: inductive or deductive. If it follows inductive logic, they should elaborate what they could learn from the results. 

- The paper describes the dialogue as it is. However, I think the paper could go beyond describing the dialogue. The researchers could code transcripts of meetings and communications. 

- The cases of the dialogue are not really easily understandable with contexts. The authors need to give more contextual information of the dialogue. 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

I think this revised version is ready for publication.