The Concept of Multifunctionality in Sustainable Land Development

Wiggering, Hubert; Müller, Klaus; Werner, A.; Helming, Katharina

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“…This concept is particularly useful for identifying the environmental, social and economic functions of land use [35] [36] as part of sustainable land development; it even requires an assessment of the impact of land use change on the three dimensions of sustainability [2].…”

Section: Forecasted Environmental Sustainability Scenariosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Landscape Structural Indicators as a Tool to Assess Land Use Changes in Planning for Sub-Basin Sustainability (Southeastern Brazil)

Fushita¹,

Santos²,

Souza³

et al. 2016

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Section: Forecasted Environmental Sustainability Scenariosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Landscape Structural Indicators as a Tool to Assess Land Use Changes in Planning for Sub-Basin Sustainability (Southeastern Brazil)

Fushita¹,

Santos²,

Souza³

et al. 2016

JWARP

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“…For example, the concept of multifunctionality (Wüstemann et al 2008) is favored by the FAO and has been extensively discussed in European Agricultural Policy contexts covering this conceptual field to a considerable degree. The underlying rationale for multifunctional land use is to consider the social, economic, and environmental effects of any land use action simultaneously and interactively, including those of commodity production and those of negative and/ or positive externalities (Wiggering et al 2003). However, by linking the supply-based concept of joint multifunctional production to an estimation of social demand for such functions, the concept can be useful for policy design (Bills and Gross 2005).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agrosystem services: An additional terminology to better understand ecosystem services delivered by agriculture

Wiggering

Weißhuhn

Burkhard

2016

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To discriminate between the contributions of ecosystems and the human subsidies to agricultural systems, we propose using an additional terminology to bring clarification into the controversial discussion about i) ecosystems versus agrosystems and ii) ecosystem services versus agrosystem services. A literature review revealed that with the exception of some very recent publications, this has not yet been sufficiently reflected, neither within the scientific nor in the policy discussion. The question remains whether to spoil the discussion with new terms again and again. We reason that it makes sense to underpin the case-specific share of agricultural inputs to the supply of agroecosystem services and to add "agro" to the terminology. We conclude, that there is a need to promote the new terminology of agrosystem services and to strengthen the use of the already established term agroecosystem services within this context. To emphasise the production patterns behind the multiple benefits agricultural systems provide to humans (commodity and non-commodity outputs) and to guarantee a reasonable weighting of related externalities in policy processes, we suggest to introduce the term agrosystem services into the discussion on ecosystem services. Agrosystem services in this context describe the anthropogenic share of agroecosystem services' generation. Agroecosystem services include multiple provisioning, regulating and cultural services from agricultural ecosystems. The inclusion of agrosystem services might accommodate the ecology-based ecosystem services concept to the specificity of managed agricultural ecosystems and therefore could be better implemented by mostly economy-driven agricultural production systems and agricultural policy.

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“…This author highlights the conceptualization of Wiggering et al (2003) based on the sustainable development paradigm developed as a theoretical framework to face post-productivism changes. According to this author the intention of introducing the multifunctionality concept is to spatially and temporally integrate the traditional food production activity with other uses, including aesthetic and recreational uses, nature conservation and water balance.…”

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Evaluating the functionality of agricultural systems: social preferences for multifunctional peri-urban agriculture. The “Huerta de Valencia” as case study

Marques-Perez

Segura

Álvarez

2014

Span. j. agric. res.

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The debate on the multifunctionality of agriculture and its connections with territorial policies are the basis of the most appropriate approach to legitimize public interventions in the agricultural sector. The main obstacle of this public intervention is to know the goods and services provided by agricultural systems and elicitation of the social preferences for them. We created a descriptive approach for the multifunctionality of agricultural systems that is based on the review of the scientific literature focused on multifunctionality and the goods and services of agricultural systems. The review shows a large variety of activities and approaches, which can be grouped by their economic dimension, social dimension and environmental dimension. Multicriteria techniques, such as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), can help elicit the priorities and the relative importance of different functions attributed by the society as a whole. The authorities can take into account these results to inform and support their political decisions. This paper describes a methodological approach to determine the Social Welfare Function by using AHP. The proposed methodology is applied to the “Huerta de Valencia”, a rich peri-urban agricultural system with a variety of resources, around which there is an open political-institutional debate to define a protection scheme. The results are very interesting and useful to enrich this debate.

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The Concept of Multifunctionality in Sustainable Land Development

Cited by 76 publications

References 5 publications

Landscape Structural Indicators as a Tool to Assess Land Use Changes in Planning for Sub-Basin Sustainability (Southeastern Brazil)

Landscape Structural Indicators as a Tool to Assess Land Use Changes in Planning for Sub-Basin Sustainability (Southeastern Brazil)

Agrosystem services: An additional terminology to better understand ecosystem services delivered by agriculture

Evaluating the functionality of agricultural systems: social preferences for multifunctional peri-urban agriculture. The “Huerta de Valencia” as case study

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