Including stakeholders’ perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments

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Beitragende

  • Lisanne Hölting - , Professur für Modellbasierte Landschaftsökologie, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) (Autor:in)
  • Franziska Komossa - , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) (Autor:in)
  • Anna Filyushkina - , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) (Autor:in)
  • Miene-Marie Gastiniger - , Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) (Autor:in)
  • Peter H. Verburg - , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) (Autor:in)
  • Michael Beckmann - , Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) (Autor:in)
  • Martin Volk - , Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) (Autor:in)
  • Anna F. Cord - , Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) (Autor:in)

Abstract

Multifunctional landscapes are used and shaped by a range of different stakeholders. The high number of diverging values, interests or demands in such landscapes can lead to conflicts that impact sustainability goals. In this study, our aim was to include stakeholders’ valuations of ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments and thereby to identify different and possibly contradictory perspectives on landscape multifunctionality. Two European cultural landscapes, the Vereinigte Mulde (Germany) and the Kromme Rijn (The Netherlands), were used as case studies. Spatially explicit indicators of eleven ecosystem services were assessed and weighted according to their survey-based perceived importance for different stakeholder groups. While some significant differences between the groups were apparent, the results also revealed that all stakeholder groups acknowledge the importance of multiple ecosystem services. Stakeholder-specific multifunctionality hotspots occurred mainly in forests or grasslands and largely overlapped between the groups. Our study therefore clearly shows that the diversity of ecosystem services must be preserved in order to preserve the values that cultural landscapes offer to a wide range of people. While local solutions must be sought to resolve local land use conflicts over the use of ecosystem services, we conclude that multifunctionality can be declared a common goal.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)354-368
FachzeitschriftEcosystems and People
Jahrgang16
Ausgabenummer1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 4 Nov. 2020
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

Scopus 85095119720
ORCID /0000-0003-0867-7828/work/142242754

Schlagworte

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

Schlagwörter

  • Ecosystem services, nature’s contribution to people, trade-offs, socio-ecological systems, land use management, surveys, perception, interest groups

Bibliotheksschlagworte