Transformative change for biodiversity: A review on the contribution of landscape-oriented partnerships

Koning, Susan de; Boezeman, Daan; Kaufmann, Maria; Visseren-Hamakers, I.J.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109858

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“…A landscape can be considered ‘an area viewed at a scale’ determined by certain considerations and landscape multifunctionality thus involves ‘the capacity of a landscape to simultaneously support multiple benefits’ (Englund et al., 2017, p. 498). However, the literature on MFL is abundant, both within and across several disciplines (Arts et al., 2017; de Koning et al., 2023; Hansen et al., 2019; Hölting et al., 2019; O'Farrell & Anderson, 2010; Otte et al., 2007; Triviño et al., 2017). This makes MFL an ambiguous concept, with varying perspectives on which functions to include and their definitions across different research fields.…”

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Interdisciplinary insights into navigating the maze of landscape multifunctionality

Fors,

Berlin,

Gottlieb

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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Increasing demands for land to deliver multiple and sometimes conflicting services to people and nature have led to the development of an extensive body of research focussed on multifunctional landscapes. However, this has created both insight and confusion, as authors from a variety of disciplines have independently tackled the question of how to manage the trade‐offs and synergies inherent in landscapes that are required to produce multiple functions and services. We employed an interdisciplinary perspective to formulate some key questions that researchers of multifunctional landscapes can use to identify blind spots. Our process resulted in a question‐based analysis support scheme that supports reflection and recursive thinking about multifunctional landscapes, beginning with objective setting and visions for addressing it, grounded in baseline mapping, then assessing landscape functions and their single and multiple interactions; as well as the analysis of sensitivity to spatial and temporal dimensions. Other key points identified are the need for clarity and examination of unstated assumptions, from aims to definitions; accounting for scale; incorporating stakeholder needs throughout the process and applying suitable methods of measurement and aggregation. The focus on asking guided questions derives from the insight that there is no universal correct approach to multifunctional landscapes; the aim should instead be to find the most appropriate methods for the given circumstances and goals. Policy implications. Tackling current and future socio‐ecological challenges is an interdisciplinary undertaking, necessitating collaborative efforts between research fields that each bring valuable and distinct insights. To effectively combat these challenges, multifunctional landscapes require a clear process and focused objective in their implementation. Multifunctionality should be seen as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Interdisciplinary insights into navigating the maze of landscape multifunctionality

Fors,

Berlin,

Gottlieb

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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“…Natural landscape patterns are the result of the interaction between the natural environment, with its particular abiotic conditions, and biological and social factors [1,2]. Nowadays, an emergent worldwide problem is that landscapes are facing rapid pattern changes.…”

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Linking Land Use and Land Cover Changes and Ecosystem Services’ Potential in Natura 2000 Site “Nordul Gorjului de Vest” (Southwest Romania)

Popescu,

Mititelu-Ionuș,

Ștefănescu

2024

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Considering that land use and land cover (LULC) change is one of the most important challenges to biodiversity today, we used Copernicus products to analyze LULC changes at the level of the “Nordul Gorjului de Vest” Natura 2000 site (Romania) from 1990 to 2018. The interpretation of the impact of these changes on areas with very high potential for three regulating ecosystem services (ESs) (local climate regulation, regulation of waste, and water purification) was performed. Forest habitats are the major LULC class category in the “Nordul Gorjului de Vest” Natura 2000 site, with broad-leaved forest as the dominant forest class. In terms of areas lost or gained by the different LULC classes for each analyzed time interval, most transformations took place in the period 2000–2006, changes which were also reflected in the overall study period (1990–2018). During this time frame, the conversion of transitional forest shrubs into broad-leaved forest, which is the second largest transition in terms of absolute area changed, led, in terms of contribution rates, to an increase in the areas with very high potential for two of the three analyzed ESs. The conversion of transitional woodland shrub into broad-leaved forest was conductive only to synergy for all the pairwise interactions between the three ESs.

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Landscape discourses and rural transformations: insights from the Dutch Dune and Flower Bulb Region

de Koning

2024

Agric Hum Values

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Rural landscapes are facing a loss of biodiversity. To deal with this challenge, landscape governance is seen as an alternative and addition to sectoral policies and a potential way of realizing transformative change for biodiversity. To study transformative change in the Bulb Region, the Netherlands, this study uses a discursive-institutional perspective. A mixed methods approach was used including 50 interviews, participant observation and document analysis. The structuration and institutionalization of three competing landscape discourses were analyzed: a hegemonic discourse rejecting any changes in bulb farming; an emerging discourse aiming to enhance sustainability through innovation; and an unstructured discourse questioning the sustainability of bulb farming. The paper shows that the emerging sustainability discourse strengthens the hegemonic discourse by providing an action repertoire for farmers to deal with changing societal demands, while not questioning the hegemonic view on the landscape. Moreover, an institutionalized landscape discourse can be very stable if discursive (relation between naturalized landscape perspectives, identity and the articulated economic interests) and non-discursive factors (natural-spatial conditions, structure of agricultural sector, embeddedness in international trade) are strongly intertwined, leaving little room for alternative discourses. The sustainability discourse was induced by changes outside the Bulb Region (e.g., legislation), thus raising the question whether landscapes are the appropriate level to expect the initiation of transformative change. For rural transformations to come about, solely relying on policies on the landscape level is not sensible. A mix of policies at both the landscape and higher levels offers more perspective for transformative change.

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Transformative change for biodiversity: A review on the contribution of landscape-oriented partnerships

Cited by 5 publications

References 78 publications

Interdisciplinary insights into navigating the maze of landscape multifunctionality

Interdisciplinary insights into navigating the maze of landscape multifunctionality

Linking Land Use and Land Cover Changes and Ecosystem Services’ Potential in Natura 2000 Site “Nordul Gorjului de Vest” (Southwest Romania)

Landscape discourses and rural transformations: insights from the Dutch Dune and Flower Bulb Region

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