Mapping Cultural Ecosystem Services (CESs) and key urban landscape features: a pilot study for land use policy and planning review

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Laura Bachi ◽  
Diomira M. C. P. Faria ◽  
Marise Barreiros Horta ◽  
Sónia Carvalho-Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Landscape Features ◽  
Policy And Planning

scholarly journals Um welchen Schutz der Vielfalt geht es? (Essay) | Which diversity is to be protected? (Essay)

2010 ◽  
Vol 161 (8) ◽  
pp. 291-294
Author(s):  
Mario F. Broggi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
The Moment

In order to operationalise the concept of biodiversity for biological variety, it has been applied at three levels: ecosystems, species and genetic diversity. In most cases the debate has been reduced to the aspect of the variety of species, ignoring the fact that the interactions are considerably more complex. In order to do justice to our responsibility for diversity, further efforts are needed, which could be subsumed under the heading “sustainable development”. At the moment, however, our ecological footprint is clearly too big. A strong focus must therefore be placed on such ecosystem services as fertility of the soil, carbon sequestration, maintenance of the hydrological balance, etc. That ultimately leads to economic arguments, which in turn will have massive impacts on current land use policies. Climate change and the increasing cultivation of biofuels are creating new effects, whose impacts on biodiversity were until recently unforeseeable. The underlying message must accordingly be that in the biodiversity debate we must focus on the landscape as such and an appropriate land use policy.

scholarly journals Envisioning alternative futures of cultural ecosystem services supply in the coastal landscapes of Southwestern Ghana, West Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Kankam ◽  
Justice Nana Inkoom ◽  
Hongmi Koo ◽  
Christine Fürst
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Mangrove Ecosystem ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Coastal Landscapes ◽  
Future Supply ◽  
Spatially Explicit Modeling ◽  
Business As Usual

AbstractCultural ecosystem services (CES) in Southwestern Ghana evoke a strong sense of attachment of local land users to the landscape. Hence, their supply is necessary for a balanced socio-ecological system. This study explored the potential supply of cultural ecosystem services (science/education, spiritual, tourism, health and recreation benefits) under different land use planning (LUP) scenarios in Southwestern Ghana. Future LUP scenarios were developed and articulated with a diverse group of land-use planning actors (LUPAs) such as regional land use planners, environmental experts, researchers, farmers and landowners. The scenarios covered business-as-usual, mangrove ecosystem restoration, market-driven growth, and the establishment of an “eco-corridor” as green network. A spatially explicit modeling platform, GISCAME, which combines Geographic Information System and Cellular Automaton modules and multicriteria evaluation was used to evaluate the developed scenarios. Outcomes of the study revealed that in the coastal landscape of Southwestern Ghana, values, perceptions and preferences of LUPAs underpin socio-ecological interactions aimed at maintaining and enhancing CES supply. In addition, it indicated that future supply of CES is characterized by an interplay between multiple and diverse perspectives about plausible land-use futures. Perceptions of, and preferences for, CES align with land-use visions related to afforestation, infrastructure development, agriculture expansion and tourism. In the study area and similar contexts where an array and diversity of individual and societal values exist, effective negotiation and facilitation are essential for harnessing and optimizing land-use planning for CES supply.

scholarly journals Assessing Relations between Cultural Ecosystem Services, Physical Landscape Features and Accessibility in Central-Eastern Europe: A PPGIS Empirical Study from Hungary

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 754
Author(s):  
István Valánszki ◽  
Lone Søderkvist Kristensen ◽  
Sándor Jombach ◽  
Márta Ladányi ◽  
Krisztina Filepné Kovács ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Landscape Features ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Recreational Services ◽  
Land Covers ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
Geographical Context

Despite the growing quantity of ecosystem-services-related research, there is still a lack of deeper understanding on cultural ecosystem services (CES). This is mainly due to the perception of CES, which can vary by geographic location and population. In this study, we present a Public Participation Geographic Information System (PPGIS) method in a Hungarian microregion. Our goal is to increase understanding on how cultural services are perceived in this geographical context and level, and how this relative importance is related to biophysical landscape features. We also consider the influence of accessibility on the perceived landscape and compare our findings with the results of other studies with different sociocultural backgrounds. The research consists of participatory mapping with 184 persons that were digitized and analyzed with GIS and statistical software. During the analysis, we identified CES hotspots and compared CES with landscape features, as well as CES perception with accessibility. Our results showed positive correlation of CES with land covers related to built-up areas, as well as aesthetic and recreational services with water bodies. Compared to other studies, we found different spatial relationships in the case of spiritual services, and higher importance of agricultural land covers during the CES perception, thanks to the Central-Eastern European (CEE) sociocultural background. Our study highlights the effect of accessibility on CES perception; nevertheless, these relationships varied by different infrastructural elements. We conclude by discussing the implications and limitations of our study and encouraging future landscape research to apply the PPGIS method in this geographical context.

scholarly journals Hunting territories and land use overlap in sedentarised Baka Pygmy communities in southeastern Cameroon

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia E. Fa ◽  
Guillermo Ros Brull ◽  
Eva Ávila Martin ◽  
Robert Okale ◽  
François Fouda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Home Ranges ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wild Meat ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Utilization Distributions

AbstractA significant number of Baka Pygmies in Cameroon have been sedentarised in roadside villages, in contrast to their nomadic hunter-gatherer existence of the past. Although this change in lifestyle has had important consequences on health, most Baka villages still supplement their diets from forest products, especially wild meat. We used a combination of participatory methods and monitoring of individual hunters to map hunting territories in 10 Baka villages in southeastern Cameroon. From these, we determined whether wild meat extraction levels per village were related to the size of hunting territories, measured habitat use by hunters and finally defined the overlap between hunting territories and extractive industries in the region. Mapped village hunting areas averaged 205.2 ± 108.7 km2 (range 76.8–352.0 km2); all villages used a total of 2052 km2. From 295 tracks of 51 hunters, we showed that hunters travelled an average of 16.5 ± 13.5 km (range 0.9–89.8 km) from each village. Home ranges, derived from kernel utilization distributions, were correlated with village offtake levels, but hunter offtake and distance travelled were not significantly related, suggesting that enough prey was available even close to the villages. Hunters in all village areas exhibited a clear bias towards certain habitats, as indicated by positive Ivlev’s index of selectivity values. We also showed that all village hunting territories and hunter home ranges fall within mining and logging concessions. Our results are important for local understanding of forest land uses and to reconcile these with the other land uses in the region to better inform decisions concerning land use policy and planning.

scholarly journals Agroforestry trade-offs between biomass provision and aboveground carbon sequestration in the alpine Eisenwurzen region, Austria

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bastian Bertsch-Hoermann ◽  
Claudine Egger ◽  
Veronika Gaube ◽  
Simone Gingrich
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Primary Production ◽  
Net Primary Production ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Simultaneous Increase ◽  
Ecological Indicator ◽  
Aboveground Carbon ◽  
Trade Offs

AbstractMountain agroecosystems deliver essential ecosystem services to society but are prone to climate change as well as socio-economic pressures, making multi-functional land systems increasingly central to sustainable mountain land use policy. Agroforestry, the combination of woody vegetation with crops and/or livestock, is expected to simultaneously increase provisioning and regulating ecosystem services, but knowledge gaps concerning trade-offs exist especially in temperate industrialized and alpine regions. Here, we quantify the aboveground carbon (C) dynamics of a hypothetical agroforestry implementation in the Austrian long-term socio-ecological research region Eisenwurzen from 2020 to 2050. We develop three land use scenarios to differentiate conventional agriculture from an immediate and a gradual agroforestry implementation, integrate data from three distinct models (Yield-SAFE, SECLAND, MIAMI), and advance the socio-ecological indicator framework Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) to assess trade-offs between biomass provision and carbon sequestration. Results indicate that agroforestry strongly decreases HANPP because of a reduction in biomass harvest by up to − 47% and a simultaneous increase in actual net primary production by up to 31%, with a large amount of carbon sequestered in perennial biomass by up to 3.4 t C ha-1 yr-1. This shows that a hypothetical transition to agroforestry in the Eisenwurzen relieves the agroecosystem from human-induced pressure but results in significant trade-offs between biomass provision and carbon sequestration. We thus conclude that while harvest losses inhibit large-scale implementation in intensively used agricultural regions, agroforestry constitutes a valuable addition to sustainable land use policy, in particular when affecting extensive pastures and meadows in alpine landscapes.

scholarly journals AN ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND RELATED LAND USE TYPES IN RURAL AREAS UNDER URBANIZATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-128
Author(s):  
Xuehui Sun ◽  
Kun Zhang ◽  
Xiaozheng Zhang ◽  
Renqing Wang ◽  
Jian Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Land Use Types

Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) play an important role in socio-natural ecosystems. Assessment of CES in rural areas is crucial for development planning and decision-making. However, assessment of CES at the local scale and, in particular, rural areas remain under-researched. In order to reveal the importance of different kinds of CES and the related land uses perceived by the rural residents, a simplified tick-scoring method was developed and tested in a case study of four villages in Shandong Province, China. This method poses CES questions and seeks answers about corresponding land use types in a questionnaire form that is accessible and useful to village residents. Furthermore, the important categories of CES and related land use types were identified and ranked based on the questionnaire. The results showed that ecological culture and aesthetic services ranked in the top two of twelve CES categories, while scenic spots/mountains, forests, and lakes/rivers/reservoirs scored for multiple CES and attained higher than average CES scores. Overall, the simplified method is practical to understand the perspectives of rural residents on the important CES and related landscapes. The established approach shed lights on CES assessment and management improvement at local scale of rural areas under different socio-environmental contexts in China and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Land Use Planning and Policy in the South

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burl F. Long ◽  
Craig L. Infanger ◽  
Leon Danielson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
The South ◽  
Policy And Planning

It has become abundantly clear this nation is confronted with a set of issues regarding allocation and use of land resources which present profound challenges to agricultural economists as well as all citizens. The ability of existing institutions to adequately deal with land use policy questions is being increasingly questioned. The theoretical causes of market failure in land policy and alternatives to the market have been dealt with extensively in the literature and will not be repeated here. The purpose of this paper is to comment on research and educational programs and needs in land policy and planning with particular reference to the South.

scholarly journals Participatory Mapping of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Madrid: Insights for Landscape Planning

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Víctor García-Díez ◽  
Marina García-Llorente ◽  
José A. González
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Participatory Gis ◽  
Aesthetic Enjoyment

Cultural ecosystem services are gaining increasing attention in the scientific literature, despite the conceptual and methodological difficulties associated with their assessment. We used a participatory GIS method to map and assess three cultural ecosystem services, namely, (a) outdoor recreation, (b) aesthetic enjoyment, and (c) sense of place, in the Madrid region (Spain). The main goal of the study was to identify cultural ecosystem service hotspots in the region and to explore the relationships among the three ecosystem services mapped. We developed a Maptionnaire online questionnaire asking participants to locate places that they associate with these three ecosystem services and their main reasons for choosing those places on a map. We collected 580 complete questionnaires with 1710 location points (807 for outdoor recreation, 506 for aesthetic enjoyment and 397 for sense of place). We found that the three ecosystem services analysed were spatially correlated, with similar hotspots appearing across the region. Most of the identified hotspots were located in the northern part of the region, which is characterised by mountains and forests. Other hotspots appeared within the city of Madrid, highlighting the importance of urban green areas. Natural protected areas supplied significantly more cultural ecosystem services than non-protected areas. Among CORINE land-use types, forested areas, mountain shrubs and rocky landscapes were more relevant than arable lands for the supply of cultural ecosystem services. Our results highlight the utmost importance of including ecosystem services mapping within land-use planning and policy-making agendas to ensure the conservation of areas supplying cultural services that are critical for societal wellbeing.

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