Tools
Tools
Albert, Christian, Galler, Carolin, Hermes, Johannes, Neuendorf, Felix, Von Haaren, Christina and Lovett, Andrew 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0554-9273
(2016)
Applying ecosystem services indicators in landscape planning and management:The ES-in-Planning framework.
Ecological Indicators, 61.
pp. 100-113.
ISSN 1470-160X
Abstract
Applying ecosystem services (ES) concepts and indicators in landscape planning requires them to be linked with models for decision-making by practitioners. The objective of this paper is to introduce an ES-in-Planning framework, which combines ES assessment and valuation indicators with the widely used Driving Forces, Pressures, State, Impacts and Responses (DPSIR) model. Within this framework, ES indicators become part of landscape planning as a means of assessing the current state of the environmentand for determining how it might change in the future. The implementation and added value of the framework is illustrated in a case study of planning issues in the Mardorf community bordering the Steinhuder Meer Lake, Northern Germany. Two scenarios of potential landscape changes and possible response measures are considered in terms of alterations in a set of ES indicators. The ES examined are food production (a provisioning ES), climate mitigation (a regulation ES), landscape esthetics (as thebasis for many cultural ES), and biodiversity. The ES indicators employed distinguish between services valued by humans and those which are actually utilized. Valuation of changes in ES has shown to reflect societal objectives (as institutionalized in legal requirements) and expert-based estimates. However, these valuations could be further validated by including economic and social valuation of impacts. The added value of applying ES in the planning process lies in improved opportunities for developing targeted response measures, for communicating trade-offs between planning options, and for facilitating jointimplementation by partners.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ecosystem functions,ecosystem services,indicators,landscape planning,dpsir,decision support,landscape,sdg 2 - zero hunger,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/zero_hunger |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Resources, Sustainability and Governance (former - to 2018) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2016 10:06 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 03:32 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57450 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.03.029 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |