Optimizing the allocation of agri-environment measures to navigate the trade-offs between ecosystem services, biodiversity and agricultural production

Verhagen, Willem; Zanden, Emma H. van der; Strauch, Michael; Teeffelen, A.J.A. van; Verburg, Peter H.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2018.03.013

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“…Integrated analysis can help determine hotspots of landscape changes, propose how a balance among different objectives can be achieved, and provide guidance for short-and long-term sustainable land use decisions (Thaxton et al 2017;Verhagen et al 2018). LUC scenarios that provide spatially explicit visualization of such changes can be used to identify trade-offs and synergies among objectives in the landscape.…”

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Contextualizing local landscape initiatives in global change: a scenario study for the high forest zone, Ghana

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Integrated landscape management (ILM) has received increased interest to reconcile multiple conflicting demands on a landscape scale. ILM aims at addressing major interconnected global challenges, such as poverty, food security, deforestation, and climate change. A principal element of ILM is the consideration of multiple scales, harmonizing local-level needs and ambitions with those that derive from outside the landscape. ILM initiatives are most often initiated by local actors focusing on local priorities, thereby insufficiently realizing that the landscape is embedded in a wider macroeconomic and societal context. We contextualize a landscape initiative located in the high forest zone of southern Ghana, focusing on global socioeconomic and political developments that are expected to have an influence on the region. We built two “sustainability” scenarios for the period between 2015 and 2030, reflecting the demands and ambitions of local stakeholders (bottom-up) and of global environmental policy (top-down) for the region. We find that global climate and cocoa production priorities could induce synergies between food production, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation at the scale of the case study region but could come at the cost of mixed forest systems that play an important role in livelihoods on the landscape scale. Land change scenarios can play a critical role in assessing and visualizing such interactions and provide a platform for discussion and negotiation on how to integrate different objectives in the design of landscape initiatives.

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“…This, however, is not always enough to be used for effective environmental management (Van der Biest et al (2015) . Moreover, nearly all assessments to date do not consider ES provision on the plot which is ultimately the spatial level and intensity (Verhagen et al, 2018). This is of specific relevance for Europe, where agri-environmental schemes incentivize low intensive grassland use.…”

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Assessment of spatial variability of multiple ecosystem services in grasslands of different intensities

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Grasslands provide multiple Ecosystem Services (ES) such as forage provision, carbon sequestration or habitat provision. Knowledge about the trade-offs between these ES is of great importance for grassland management. Yet, the outcome of different management strategies on ES provision is highly uncertain due to spatial variability. We aim to characterize the provision (level and spatial variability) of grassland ES under various management strategies. To do so, we combine empirical data for multiple ES with spatially explicit census data on land use intensities. We analyzed the variations of five ES (forage provision, climate regulation, pollination, biodiversity conservation and outdoor recreation) using data from biodiversity fieldwork, experimental plots for carbon as well as social network data from Flickr. These data were used to calculate the distribution of modelled individual and multiple ES values from different grassland management types in a Swiss case study region using spatial explicit information for 17,383 grassland parcels. Our results show that (1) management regime and intensity levels play an important role in ES provision but their impact depends on the ES. In general, extensive management, especially in pastures, favors all ES but forage provision, whereas intensive management favors only forage provision and outdoor recreation; (2) ES potential provision varies between parcels under the same management due to the influence of environmental drivers, related to topography and landscape structure; (3) there is a trade-offs between forage provision and other ES at the cantonal level but a synergy between forage provision and biodiversity conservation within the grassland categories, due to the negative impact of elevation on both ES. Information about multiple ES provision is key to support effective agri-environmental measures and information about the spatial variability can prevent uncertain outputs of decision-making processes.

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“…These scenarios and especially the specified parameterssee Karner et al (2019) for further details -were than used for trade-off analyses, e.g. in optimization models (Verhagen et al, 2018).…”

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Bringing the sharing-sparing debate down to the ground—Lessons learnt for participatory scenario development

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The concepts of Land Sharing (LSH) and Land Sparing (LSP) shall help to manage trade-offs between land use and biodiversity conservation but applications in real world contexts are scarce. We review the literature on scenario and stakeholder processes and present a participatory approach to translate the LSH/LSP concept into practice. It is based on a scenario definition process harmonized across five case studies in Europe and resulted in semi-quantitative participative LSH and LSP scenarios. Harmonization eases comparability among case studies despite fundamentally different scenarios due to heterogeneous conditions across the regions. A key challenge was the right level of standardization for the scenario process to reach a common understanding across case study regions while acknowledging regional peculiarities. The resulting scenarios support for regional specific planning recommendations and can be input to quantitative ecosystem service and biodiversity models.

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Optimizing the allocation of agri-environment measures to navigate the trade-offs between ecosystem services, biodiversity and agricultural production

Cited by 87 publications

References 38 publications

Contextualizing local landscape initiatives in global change: a scenario study for the high forest zone, Ghana

Contextualizing local landscape initiatives in global change: a scenario study for the high forest zone, Ghana

Assessment of spatial variability of multiple ecosystem services in grasslands of different intensities

Bringing the sharing-sparing debate down to the ground—Lessons learnt for participatory scenario development

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