<i>Volksbegehren Artenvielfalt:</i> Gesetzesänderungen können auch Ökosystemdienstleistungen in Bayerns Agrarlandschaften stärken

Hartmann, Hanna; Haensel, Maria; Riebl, Rebekka; Lohse, Eva Julia; Koellner, Thomas

doi:10.14512/gaia.30.2.8

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“…An explanation could be linked to the political context. Following a 2019 referendum in Bavaria that focused on (insect) biodiversity (Hartmann et al 2021 ), a new and highly renumerated measure of annual wildflower areas was offered in 2020. This measure was well received but limited to 6 ha per farm, explaining the many related comments.…”

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Improving Agri-environmental Schemes: Suggestions from Farmers and Nature Managers in a Central European Region

Zindler,

Haensel,

Fricke

et al. 2023

Environmental Management

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Agri-environmental schemes (AES) are important policy instruments within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union for environmental protection. Due to the voluntary nature of AES, their attractiveness to farmers and stakeholders involved in nature management and protection (nature managers) is essential for high participation levels. This study aims to assess farmers’ and nature managers’ ideas to improve agri-environmental schemes. We analyzed suggestions of 825 farmers and 118 nature managers for improvements of AES collected in a large-scale survey in Bavaria, Germany. A content analysis was applied to categorize and compare suggestions by farmers (differentiated into two groups through a cluster analysis) and nature managers. The results reveal that stakeholders were highly willing to share ideas and made detailed suggestions for improvements and individual measures. They were aware of the importance of protecting nature and promoting biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and acknowledged the necessity of (financial) support programs. Farmers placed more emphasis on the practicability and profitability of measures on arable land, while nature managers tended to propose policy-related ideas focusing on nature protection, biodiversity, and specific species. Among farmers, suggestions differed with farm characteristics such as the operation mode (full-time, part-time). These findings can support the design of future AES, accounting for different background situations and thereby increasing acceptability. This includes considering perspectives from different stakeholder groups and creating regionally adapted programs with varying levels of flexibility and practicability.

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Improving Agri-environmental Schemes: Suggestions from Farmers and Nature Managers in a Central European Region

Zindler,

Haensel,

Fricke

et al. 2023

Environmental Management

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“…Thirdly, recent developments in the media and public attention could drive perceptions of respondents more than their personal experiences in their residence area does. A Bavarian referendum in 2019 aiming at strengthening biodiversity gained huge support in the population [ 49 ]. The campaign of this referendum likely increased the perceived importance of services like habitat and pollination.…”

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Perceptions of ecosystem services: Comparing socio-cultural and environmental influences

Thiemann

Riebl²,

Haensel³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Ecosystem services such as food provisioning, climate regulation, nutrient cycling, or recreation in open landscapes underpin human wellbeing. They are highly dependent on land use, land cover and utilization pattern as well as environmental factors like climate, topography and soil. In consequence, ecosystem services supply shows a high spatial variability. However, it is less clear if the perception of the importance of ecosystem services is similarly heterogeneous in space and amongst societal actors. The aim of this large-scale study was to explore whether land cover and climate gradients as well as socio-cultural factors influence the perceptions of ecosystem services of four groups of societal actors: citizens, farmers, foresters and nature managers. Spatially explicit survey data of 3018 respondents allowed to gain insight into the distribution of perceived importance of 21 ecosystem services in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany together with the respondents’ socio-cultural characterisation (e.g. gender, education and hobbies in nature). Responses were analysed through descriptive statistics, redundancy analysis, and Generalized Linear Models. Results reveal that the perceived importance of many ecosystem services was consistently high across groups, although perception differed for some ecosystem services (e.g. production of energy plants and timber as well as recreation in urban green space). Compared to other actor groups, farmers attributed slightly lower importance to all ES except provisioning services. Socio-cultural factors better explained variability in perceived importance of ecosystem services than land cover and climate gradients. This might be either explained by the fact that the environmental gradients vary not strong enough in our case study or that they do not shape the perceptions of respondents. A limitation of the study is that the sample of respondents obtained is not representative for the population, but biased towards persons interested in the topics of the survey. Still the consensus indicated by the overall positive perception of ecosystem services among respondents highlights the integrative potential of ecosystem services when included in decision-making.

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“…The loss of bees as important pollinators for both wild and crop plants has especially led to concern [4] and even to public protests, e.g., in Germany, where our study was conducted. Accordingly, a referendum with the title 'Petition for Species Diversity: Save the Bees' was enforced in one federal state, while similar petitions are discussed in other federal states of Germany [6]. However, the loss of species diversity is not the only problem.…”

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SAD but True: Species Awareness Disparity in Bees Is a Result of Bee-Less Biology Lessons in Germany

Christ

2022

Sustainability

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Bee and insect mortality has recently moved to the forefront of current nature conservation debates and experiences intensive media coverage worldwide. In order to understand the complexity, it is necessary to raise awareness of the diversity of bees. This study investigated whether students are aware of the species diversity of bees. We are guided by the concept of ‘plant blindness’ and show that it cannot be assumed that people are only ’plant-blind’. Therefore, we introduce the concept of Species Awareness Disparity (SAD) in bees to describe a phenomenon which can be defined as the failure to appreciate the significance of wild bee species and the inability to distinguish between individual species of the Apidae family. A total of 421 German students in grades 5–7 participated. The majority of students did not associate a diversity of species with the term ‘wild bee’ but rather consider the honeybee as the bee. Only 2.7% (N = 421) of the students were able to correctly identify pictures of wild bees and the honeybee. This highlights the importance of educating students about the identity and nature of bees in their environment so that they become aware of their meaning from both a personal and an ecological perspective.

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Volksbegehren Artenvielfalt: Gesetzesänderungen können auch Ökosystemdienstleistungen in Bayerns Agrarlandschaften stärken

Cited by 9 publications

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Improving Agri-environmental Schemes: Suggestions from Farmers and Nature Managers in a Central European Region

Improving Agri-environmental Schemes: Suggestions from Farmers and Nature Managers in a Central European Region

Perceptions of ecosystem services: Comparing socio-cultural and environmental influences

SAD but True: Species Awareness Disparity in Bees Is a Result of Bee-Less Biology Lessons in Germany

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