Since the social values include many aspects of the human-nature nexus, initiatives have been made by several agencies which only to some extent have been coordinated. Social values have also been studied in different research projects, but with little coordination. In 2007 the national research program "Friluftsliv i forandring" did a national survey on outdoor recreation participation which provided broad baseline data, and a follow-up survey to monitor the national policy on outdoor recreation in currently under consideration. A recommendation for the future is thus to better coordinate the efforts among the different stakeholders in order to provide an accepted and cost-efficient set of indicators which can be applied in a national (cross-sectional) monitoring system.