Developing a value function for nature development and land use policy in Flanders, Belgium

Liekens, Inge; Schaafsma, Marije; Nocker, Leo De; Broekx, Steven; Staes, Jan; Aertsens, Joris; Brouwer, Roy

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.04.008

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“…The distribution of the final CE questionnaire started in October of 2015. Based on the above discussion, seven characteristics were included as CE attributes in the design: agricultural farming type [24,25], biodiversity [6,16,26], water provision [12], land use type [6,10,13,26,27], ecotourism mode [13], WTP, and WTW [6,13,26,28], as well as the levels of the attributes in relation to ecosystem services, as shown in Table 1. Agricultural production provides nutrition and health for human society [29].…”

Section: Choice Of Experiments Design For the Land Use Preferencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For a valuation field, Birol, et al [33] measured the marginal benefits of the biodiversity from the wetland management program in the protected area. Liekens et al [6] used the CE method to develop a value function, and to estimate the public benefits from amenities, recreation and biodiversity values with land use function in Belgium. Therefore, biodiversity is an important attribute for the land use planning in a forest park.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…"Land use type" encompasses a variety land use scenarios in the protected area, and visual aids can be used to help respondents understand distinct nature types [6]. Shoyama et al [10] designed the land use scenario, and integrated the natural forest, wetland, managed forest, and agricultural land into a program for biodiversity conservation and climate-change mitigation.…”

Section: Choice Of Experiments Design For the Land Use Preferencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These changes have received considerable attention in land use policy, urban economics, and geography literature. These research areas focus on supporting decisions related to land use changes, where a tradeoff has to be made between the benefits of increasing development of the environment and protecting or expanding the natural environment [6]. Policymaking can optimize the social welfare when applying the benefits of nature conservation into the decision-making criteria.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To apply the concepts of nature and infrastructural elements to a land use program in a forest park, policymakers could seek to better understand the needs and preferences of the local residents. Monetary valuation of ecosystem services aims to provide information about the values that society attributes to nature, also taking into account uncertainty about future uses and the location specificity of values [6]. Furthermore, this kind of valuation could help the government to set up sustainable land use policy for the forest park based on the preferences of the local community, and also set the priority for the budget allocation in land use programs based on the estimation of the conservation value, which includes the ecosystem services in the forest park.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

Lee

Wang

2017

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This paper aims to build up a preference function to evaluate the public benefits of the type of agricultural farming, biodiversity, water provisions, land use type, ecotourism modes, and a monetary attribute (willingness to pay and willingness to work) associated with an ecosystem service and land use program in a forest park. This study used choice experiments to build a random utility model, analyze the average preference for the above land use attributes based on the conditional logit (CL) and used a latent class model to test the residents' heterogeneous preferences for land use planning in the forest park. We also estimated the welfare derived from various land use programs. The empirical result has shown that: (1) increasing organic farming area, increasing the surface water provision, increasing the area of custom flora, increasing the wetland area, and setting up an integrated framework for ecotourism increase the public's preference for the land use program; (2) farmer and non-farmers do not have the same land use preferences, attributes, marginal willingness to pay and willingness to work; and (3) the ecotourism development program incorporating biodiversity, organic farming, ethnobotany, and wetland area with integrated ecotourism has the highest values when compared to other land use program scenarios.

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Section: Choice Of Experiments Design For the Land Use Preferencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Choice Of Experiments Design For the Land Use Preferencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Choice Of Experiments Design For the Land Use Preferencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Relational values help explain green infrastructure preferences: The case of managing crane habitat in Hokkaido, Japan

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Using a multi‐lens framework for landscape decisions

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1. Landscape decisions are multi-faceted. Framing landscape decision-making as a governance process that requires a collective approach can encourage key stakeholders to come together to co-inform a discussion about their priorities and what constitutes good governance, leading to more holistic landscape decisions.2. In this paper, we recognise that a suite of complementary and multi-dimensional approaches are in practice used to inform and evaluate land use decisions. We have called these approaches 'lenses' because they each provide a different perspective on the same problem. The four lenses are (i) power and market gain, (ii) ecosystem services, (iii) place-based identity and (iv) ecocentric. Each brings a different set of evidence and viewpoints (narrative, qualitative and experiential, as well as quantitative metrics such as monetary) to the decision-making process and can potentially reveal problems and solutions that others do not.3. Considering all lenses together allows dialogue to take place which can reveal the true complexities of landscape decision-making and can facilitate more effective and more holistic decisions. Employing the lenses requires governance structures that give equal weight to all lenses, enable dialogue and coexistence between top down and bottom-up approaches, and permit adaptation to local and granular place-specifics rather than developing "one-size-fits-all" solutions. 4. We propose that formalising the process of balancing all the lenses requires public participation, and that a lens approach should be used to support landscape decisions alongside a checklist that facilitates transparency in the conversation, showing how all evidence has been considered and critically assessed.

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Developing a value function for nature development and land use policy in Flanders, Belgium

Cited by 64 publications

References 34 publications

Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

Relational values help explain green infrastructure preferences: The case of managing crane habitat in Hokkaido, Japan

Using a multi‐lens framework for landscape decisions

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