Prioritising Land-Use Decisions for the Optimal Delivery of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Protection in Productive Landscapes

Weeks, Emily S.; Mason, N. W. H.; Ausseil, Anne-Gäelle; Herzig, Alexander

doi:10.5772/58255

“…Though intensified land use is undeniably the main cause of biodiversity loss. There is an increasing expectation that productive agricultural landscapes should be managed to preserve or enhance biodiversity [57].…”

Section: Biodiversity Lossesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agriculture and Its Impact on Land‐Use, Environment, and Ecosystem Services

Kanianska¹

2016

Landscape Ecology - The Influences of Land Use and Anthropogenic Impacts of Landscape Creation

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Human expansion throughout the world caused that agriculture is a dominant form of land management globally. Human influence on the land is accelerating because of rapid population growth and increasing food requirements. To stress the interactions between society and the environment, the driving forces (D), pressures (P), states (S), impacts (I), and response (R) (DPSIR) framework approach was used for analyzing and assessing the influence of agriculture on land use, environment, and ecosystem services. The DPSIR model was used to identify a series of core indicators and to establish the nature of interactions between different driving forces, pressures, states, impacts, and responses. We assessed selected indicators at global, national, and local levels. Driving force indicators describe growing population trend and linking land-use patterns. The driving forces exert pressure on the environment assessed by indicators describing development in fertilizer and pesticides consumption, by number of livestock, and by intensification joined growing release of ammonia and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture, and water abstraction. The pressure reflects in the state of environment, mainly expressed by soil and water quality indicators. Negative changes in the state then have negative impacts on landscape, e.g., traditional landscape disappearance, biodiversity, climate, and ecosystem services. As a response, technological, economic, policy, or legislation measures are adopted.

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“…Newly emerging GIS-based frameworks now allow for the mapping of several ecosystem services in a spatially explicit manner. These tools allow for the complex inter-dependencies within an ecological system to be mapped, based on best available knowledge (Jackson et al, 2013b;Turner II et al, 2007, Weeks et al, 2014. Furthermore, used effectively, these tools can provide options that optimise across a number of ecosystem services, helping to identify the optimum balance of environmentally sustainable resource use within a catchment, and supporting informed and transparent decisionmaking.…”

Section: Modelling Ecosystem Services Trade-offs In the Context Of Future Scenarios Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating informed land-use decisions through the modelling of ecosystem service trade-offs

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<p>Increasing global populations are placing increasing pressure on our natural systems, reducing their capacity to produce the ecosystem services that we rely upon for human wellbeing (World Bank, 2004). Clarifying the implications of land-use decisions across the range of ecosystem services is fundamental to understanding the trade-offs inherent in land-use options. LUCI (the Land Utilization and Capability Indicator) is an emergent Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based framework developed to enable the mapping of several ecosystem services in a spatially explicit manner. This process enables a clearer understanding of the inter-dependencies between ecosystems and potential implications and trade-offs of management interventions across a range of services. There is however, limited understanding of the impact, utility and credibility of such tools for land-use decision-makers, or of how they perceive the information conveyed. This Thesis considered the impact that presenting information on land-use trade-offs through LUCI had on land-owners at the farm scale. This research supports previous findings that information alone does not drive behaviour (or decision-making) (Kollmuss, 2002, Fisk, 2011; Kennedy, 2010; Mackenzie-Mohr, 2000; Stern, 2000). Similarly, perceived credibility was not the main driver of decision-making nor is it necessarily rationally based. However without it, voluntary adoption of a new technology or tool is unlikely. Therefore, in seeking to diffuse tools, such as LUCI within a community, process design should take into account the social structures and the characteristics of targeted individuals within that community. The influence of temporal and context specific factors on decision-making provides both barriers and opportunities for technology diffusion. The research findings propose that when integrating new tools and technologies within communities, consideration is given to using a suite of tools, mechanisms and theories in concert such as Community-Based Social Marketing (Mackenzie-Mohr, 2011) and Diffusion Theory (Rogers, 2003) to facilitate improved diffusion and uptake by communities.</p>

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“…Newly emerging GIS-based frameworks now allow for the mapping of several ecosystem services in a spatially explicit manner. These tools allow for the complex inter-dependencies within an ecological system to be mapped, based on best available knowledge (Jackson et al, 2013b;Turner II et al, 2007, Weeks et al, 2014. Furthermore, used effectively, these tools can provide options that optimise across a number of ecosystem services, helping to identify the optimum balance of environmentally sustainable resource use within a catchment, and supporting informed and transparent decisionmaking.…”

Section: Modelling Ecosystem Services Trade-offs In the Context Of Future Scenarios Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating informed land-use decisions through the modelling of ecosystem service trade-offs

Scott¹

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<p>Increasing global populations are placing increasing pressure on our natural systems, reducing their capacity to produce the ecosystem services that we rely upon for human wellbeing (World Bank, 2004). Clarifying the implications of land-use decisions across the range of ecosystem services is fundamental to understanding the trade-offs inherent in land-use options. LUCI (the Land Utilization and Capability Indicator) is an emergent Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based framework developed to enable the mapping of several ecosystem services in a spatially explicit manner. This process enables a clearer understanding of the inter-dependencies between ecosystems and potential implications and trade-offs of management interventions across a range of services. There is however, limited understanding of the impact, utility and credibility of such tools for land-use decision-makers, or of how they perceive the information conveyed. This Thesis considered the impact that presenting information on land-use trade-offs through LUCI had on land-owners at the farm scale. This research supports previous findings that information alone does not drive behaviour (or decision-making) (Kollmuss, 2002, Fisk, 2011; Kennedy, 2010; Mackenzie-Mohr, 2000; Stern, 2000). Similarly, perceived credibility was not the main driver of decision-making nor is it necessarily rationally based. However without it, voluntary adoption of a new technology or tool is unlikely. Therefore, in seeking to diffuse tools, such as LUCI within a community, process design should take into account the social structures and the characteristics of targeted individuals within that community. The influence of temporal and context specific factors on decision-making provides both barriers and opportunities for technology diffusion. The research findings propose that when integrating new tools and technologies within communities, consideration is given to using a suite of tools, mechanisms and theories in concert such as Community-Based Social Marketing (Mackenzie-Mohr, 2011) and Diffusion Theory (Rogers, 2003) to facilitate improved diffusion and uptake by communities.</p>

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Prioritising Land-Use Decisions for the Optimal Delivery of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Protection in Productive Landscapes

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Agriculture and Its Impact on Land‐Use, Environment, and Ecosystem Services

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Facilitating informed land-use decisions through the modelling of ecosystem service trade-offs

Facilitating informed land-use decisions through the modelling of ecosystem service trade-offs

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