Participatory Mapping of Demand for Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Agricultural land use systems have been optimized for producing provisioning ecosystem services (ES) in the past few decades, often at the expense of regulating and cultural services. Research has focused mainly on the supply side of ES and related trade-offs, but the demand side for regulatory serv...

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Main Authors: Carmen Schwartz, Mostafa Shaaban, Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura, Annette Piorr
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-11-01
Series:Agriculture
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/12/1193
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author Carmen Schwartz
Mostafa Shaaban
Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura
Annette Piorr
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description Agricultural land use systems have been optimized for producing provisioning ecosystem services (ES) in the past few decades, often at the expense of regulating and cultural services. Research has focused mainly on the supply side of ES and related trade-offs, but the demand side for regulatory services remains largely neglected. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the usefulness of participatory geographic information system (PGIS) methods for demand assessment in larger rural and agrarian contexts by identifying spatially explicit demand patterns for ES, thereby enlarging the body of participatory approaches to ES-based land use management. Accordingly, we map, assess, and statistically and spatially analyze different demands for five ES by different stakeholder groups in agricultural landscapes in three case studies. The results are presented in a stakeholder workshop and prerequisites for collaborative ES management are discussed. Our results show that poor correlation exists between stakeholder groups and demands for ES; however, arable land constitutes the highest share of the mapped area of demands for the five ES. These results have been validated by both the survey and the stakeholder workshop. Our study concludes that PGIS represents a useful tool to link demand assessments and landscape management systematically, especially for decision support systems.
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spelling doaj.art-9c7d4e337b004cb097f35404a8752cce2023-11-23T03:18:42ZengMDPI AGAgriculture2077-04722021-11-011112119310.3390/agriculture11121193Participatory Mapping of Demand for Ecosystem Services in Agricultural LandscapesCarmen Schwartz0Mostafa Shaaban1Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura2Annette Piorr3Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF e.V.), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, GermanyLeibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF e.V.), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, GermanyLeibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF e.V.), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, GermanyLeibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF e.V.), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, GermanyAgricultural land use systems have been optimized for producing provisioning ecosystem services (ES) in the past few decades, often at the expense of regulating and cultural services. Research has focused mainly on the supply side of ES and related trade-offs, but the demand side for regulatory services remains largely neglected. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the usefulness of participatory geographic information system (PGIS) methods for demand assessment in larger rural and agrarian contexts by identifying spatially explicit demand patterns for ES, thereby enlarging the body of participatory approaches to ES-based land use management. Accordingly, we map, assess, and statistically and spatially analyze different demands for five ES by different stakeholder groups in agricultural landscapes in three case studies. The results are presented in a stakeholder workshop and prerequisites for collaborative ES management are discussed. Our results show that poor correlation exists between stakeholder groups and demands for ES; however, arable land constitutes the highest share of the mapped area of demands for the five ES. These results have been validated by both the survey and the stakeholder workshop. Our study concludes that PGIS represents a useful tool to link demand assessments and landscape management systematically, especially for decision support systems.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/12/1193participatory mappingecosystem servicesdemandPGISagricultural landscapes
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ecosystem services
demand
PGIS
agricultural landscapes
title Participatory Mapping of Demand for Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes
title_full Participatory Mapping of Demand for Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes
title_fullStr Participatory Mapping of Demand for Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes
title_full_unstemmed Participatory Mapping of Demand for Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes
title_short Participatory Mapping of Demand for Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes
title_sort participatory mapping of demand for ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes
topic participatory mapping
ecosystem services
demand
PGIS
agricultural landscapes
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