Changes in the spatial patterns of human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) in Europe 1990–2006

Plutzar, Christoph; Kroisleitner, Christine; Haberl, Helmut; Fetzel, Tamara; Bulgheroni, Claudia; Beringer, Tim; Hostert, Patrick; Kastner, Thomas; Kuemmerle, Tobias; Lauk, Christian; Levers, Christian; Lindner, Marcus; Moser, Dietmar; Müller, Daniel; Niedertscheider, Maria; Paracchini, Maria Luisa; Schaphoff, Sibyll; Verburg, Peter H.; Verkerk, Pieter Johannes; Erb, Karl‐Heinz

doi:10.1007/s10113-015-0820-3

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“…By subtracting the HANPP, i.e. all harvest and related flows plus the land use conversion, from the NPP pot , one arrives at the NPP that remained in the ecosystem after harvest and which is available for other species (NPP eco ) (Krausmann et al 2013, Plutzar et al 2015. By going beyond simple harvest or yield assessments HANPP reveals the connectedness to the productivity, and the potentially renewable resources, of ecosystems.…”

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Assessing sustainable biophysical human–nature connectedness at regional scales

Dorninger¹,

Abson²,

Fischer³

et al. 2017

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Humans are biophysically connected to the biosphere through the flows of materials and energy appropriated from ecosystems. While this connection is fundamental for human well-being, many modern societies have-for better or worse-disconnected themselves from the natural productivity of their immediate regional environment. In this paper, we conceptualize the biophysical human-nature connectedness of land use systems at regional scales. We distinguish two mechanisms by which primordial connectedness of people to regional ecosystems has been circumvented via the use of external inputs. First, 'biospheric disconnection' refers to people drawing on non-renewable minerals from outside the biosphere (e.g. fossils, metals and other minerals). Second, 'spatial disconnection' arises from the imports and exports of biomass products and imported mineral resources used to extract and process ecological goods. Both mechanisms allow for greater regional resource use than would be possible otherwise, but both pose challenges for sustainability, for example, through waste generation, depletion of nonrenewable resources and environmental burden shifting to distant regions. In contrast, biophysically reconnected land use systems may provide renewed opportunities for inhabitants to develop an awareness of their impacts and fundamental reliance on ecosystems. To better understand the causes, consequences, and possible remedies related to biophysical disconnectedness, new quantitative methods to assess the extent of regional biophysical humannature connectedness are needed. To this end, we propose a new methodological framework that can be applied to assess biophysical human-nature connectedness in any region of the world.

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Section: From Theory To Practice: Methodological Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing sustainable biophysical human–nature connectedness at regional scales

Dorninger¹,

Abson²,

Fischer³

et al. 2017

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Assessing changes in forestland from satellitebased land-cover maps such as CORINE is challenging, because forest cover changes can reflect permanent gains or losses in forestland, but also natural disturbance (e.g., storms or fire) or management (e.g., harvest), which do not reflect land-use change. To derive forestland maps, we therefore disaggregated harmonized, regional-level forestland statistics for the years 1990 and 2005 (Levers et al 2014) to the 3 km target grid using CORINE forest cover as weights (Plutzar et al 2016). To calculate the extent of urban area change, we relied on the 1990 and 2006 CORINE maps and calculated percent urban area within 3 × 3 km 2 cells based on the 11 urban or built-up classes.…”

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“…Finally, rates and patterns of changes in the management intensity of agriculture and forestry are not captured by CORINE (Stoate et al 2009). New spatially-explicit, land-use datasets have recently become available for Europe (Neumann et al 2009, Temme and Verburg 2011, Levers et al 2014, Overmars et al 2014, Plutzar et al 2016, providing new opportunities to better understand the relationship among different land-use change processes.…”

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Hotspots of land use change in Europe

Kuemmerle

Levers

Erb

et al. 2016

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Assessing changes in the extent and management intensity of land use is crucial to understanding land-system dynamics and their environmental and social outcomes. Yet, changes in the spatial patterns of land management intensity, and thus how they might relate to changes in the extent of land uses, remains unclear for many world regions. We compiled and analyzed high-resolution, spatiallyexplicit land-use change indicators capturing changes in both the extent and management intensity of cropland, grazing land, forests, and urban areas for all of Europe for the period 1990-2006. Based on these indicators, we identified hotspots of change and explored the spatial concordance of area versus intensity changes. We found a clear East-West divide with regard to agriculture, with stronger cropland declines and lower management intensity in the East compared to the West. Yet, these patterns were not uniform and diverging patterns of intensification in areas highly suitable for farming, and disintensification and cropland contraction in more marginal areas emerged. Despite the moderate overall rates of change, many regions in Europe fell into at least one land-use change hotspot during 1990-2006, often related to a spatial reorganization of land use (i.e., co-occurring area decline and intensification or co-occurring area increase and disintensification). Our analyses highlighted the diverse spatial patterns and heterogeneity of land-use changes in Europe, and the importance of jointly considering changes in the extent and management intensity of land use, as well as feedbacks among land-use sectors. Given this spatial differentiation of land-use change, and thus its environmental impacts, spatially-explicit assessments of land-use dynamics are important for context-specific, regionalized land-use policy making.

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“…Forest lands were transferred to private ownership through restitution and sale. In some areas of Eastern and Central Europe this led to increased logging rates by the new private owners, due in part to economic turmoil and crisis as well as weakened institutions which characterised the transition period (Plutzar et al 2015;Kissling-Näf and Bisang 2001;Kuemmerle et al 2009). …”

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Characteristics and drivers of forest cover change in the post-socialist era in Croatia: evidence from a mixed-methods approach

2016

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Extensive forests in Croatia represent an important biological and economic resource in Europe. They are characterized by heterogeneity in forest management practices dating back to the socialist planned economy of the pre-1991 era. In this study we investigated the difference in rates of deforestation and reforestation in private and state owned forests during the post-socialist period, and the causal drivers of change. The selected region of Northern Croatia is characterised by a high percentage of privately owned forests with minimal national monitoring and control. We used a mixed-methods approach which combines remote sensing, statistical modelling and a household-based questionnaire survey to assess the rates of forest cover change and factors influencing those changes. The results show that predominantly privately owned forests in Northern Croatia have recorded a net forest loss of 1.8% during the 1991-2011 period, while Croatia overall is characterised by a 10% forest cover increase in predominantly state-owned forests. Main factors influencing forest cover changes in private forests are slope, altitude, education structure, population age and population density. The results also show that the deforestation in private forests is weakening overall, mostly due to the continuation of the de-agrarization and de-ruralisation processes which began during socialism.

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Changes in the spatial patterns of human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) in Europe 1990–2006

Cited by 62 publications

References 46 publications

Assessing sustainable biophysical human–nature connectedness at regional scales

Assessing sustainable biophysical human–nature connectedness at regional scales

Hotspots of land use change in Europe

Characteristics and drivers of forest cover change in the post-socialist era in Croatia: evidence from a mixed-methods approach

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