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When we cannot have it all: Ecosystem services trade-offs in the context of spatial planning

Turkelboom, Francis and Leone, Michael and Jacobs, Sander and Kelemen, Eszter and García-Llorente, Marina and Kalóczkai, Ágnes and Czúcz, Bálint and Aszalós, Réka (2018) When we cannot have it all: Ecosystem services trade-offs in the context of spatial planning. Ecosystem Services, 29 (Part C). pp. 566-578. ISSN 2212-0416

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Abstract

Abstract Spatial planning has to deal with trade-offs between various stakeholders’ wishes and needs as part of planning and management of landscapes, natural resources and/or biodiversity. To make ecosystem services (ES) trade-off research more relevant for spatial planning, we propose an analytical framework, which puts stakeholders, their land-use/management choices, their impact on ES and responses at the centre. Based on 24 cases from around the world, we used this framing to analyse the appearance and diversity of real-world ES trade-offs. They cover a wide range of trade-offs related to ecosystem use, including: land-use change, management regimes, technical versus nature-based solutions, natural resource use, and management of species. The ES trade-offs studied featured a complexity that was far greater than what is often described in the ES literature. Influential users and context setters are at the core of the trade-off decision-making, but most of the impact is felt by non-influential users. Provisioning and cultural ES were the most targeted in the studied trade-offs, but regulating ES were the most impacted. Stakeholders’ characteristics, such as influence, impact faced, and concerns can partially explain their position and response in relation to trade-offs. Based on the research findings, we formulate recommendations for spatial planning.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Real-world case studies; Stakeholder responses; Property regimes; Ecosystem use; Trade-off analytical framework
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QH Natural history / természetrajz > QH540 Ecology / ökológia
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 07 Sep 2018 09:48
Last Modified: 07 Sep 2018 09:48
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/83216

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