The Experts below are selected from a list of 360 Experts worldwide ranked by ideXlab platform
Elisa Oterosrozas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
the role of cultural ecosystem services in Landscape Management and planning
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2015Co-Authors: Tobias Plieninger, Claudia Bieling, Nora Fagerholm, Tibor Hartel, Patrick T Hurley, Cesar Lopezsantiago, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Elisa OterosrozasAbstract:There is increasing concern that the ecosystem services approach puts emphasis on optimizing a small number of services, which may jeopardize environmental sustainability. One potential solution is to bring cultural ecosystem services more strongly into the foreground. We synthesize recent empirical evidence and assess what consideration of cultural ecosystem services adds to Landscape Management and planning. In general, cultural ecosystem services incentivize the multifunctionality of Landscapes. However, depending on context, cultural ecosystem services can either encourage the maintenance of valuable Landscapes or act as barriers to necessary innovation and transformation. Hence, cultural ecosystems services are not uncontested, as seen through the three analytical lenses of landowner behavior, cultural practices of communities, and Landscape planning.
Natalia Estradacarmona - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
a knowledge brokering framework for integrated Landscape Management
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020Co-Authors: Daniel F Mcgonigle, Giulia Rota Nodari, Robyn L Phillips, Ermias Aynekulu, Natalia Estradacarmona, Sarah K Jones, Izabella Koziell, Eike Luedeling, Roseline Remans, Keith D ShepherdAbstract:Sustainable land Management is at the heart of some of the most intractable challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It is critical for tackling biodiversity loss, land degradation, climate change and the decline of ecosystem services. It underpins food production, livelihoods, dietary health, social equity, climate change adaptation and many other outcomes. However, interdependencies, trade-offs, time lags and non-linear responses make it difficult to predict the combined effects of land Management decisions . Policy decisions also have to be made in the context of conflicting interests, values and power dynamics of those living on the land and those affected by the consequences of land use decisions. This makes designing and coordinating effective land Management policies and programmes highly challenging. The difficulty is exacerbated by the scarcity of reliable data on the impacts of land Management on the environment and livelihoods. This poses a challenge for policymakers and practitioners in governments, development banks, non-governmental organisations and other institutions. It also sets demands for researchers, who are under ever increasing pressure from funders to demonstrate uptake and impact of their work. Relatively few research methods exist that can address such questions in a holistic way. Decision makers and researchers need to work together to help untangle, contextualise and interpret fragmented evidence through systems approaches to make decisions in spite of uncertainty. Individuals and institutions acting as knowledge brokers can support these interactions by facilitating the co-creation and use of scientific and other knowledge. Given the patchy nature of data and evidence, particularly in developing countries, it is important to draw on the full range of available models, tools and evidence. In this paper we review the use of evidence to inform multiple-objective integrated Landscape Management policies and programmes, focusing on how to achieve multiple sustainable development objectives across diverse Landscapes. We set out key success factors for evidence-based decision-making, which are summarised into ten key principles for integrated Landscape Management knowledge brokering and 12 key skills for knowledge brokers. We finally propose a decision-support framework to organise evidence that can be used to tackle different types of land Management policy decision.
-
integrated Landscape Management for agriculture rural livelihoods and ecosystem conservation an assessment of experience from latin america and the caribbean
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2014Co-Authors: Natalia Estradacarmona, Abigail K Hart, Fabrice Declerck, Celia A Harvey, Jeffrey C MilderAbstract:Approaches to integrated Landscape Management are currently garnering new interest as scientists, policymakers, and local stakeholders recognize the need to increase the multi-functionality of agricultural Landscapes for food production, livelihood improvement, and ecosystem conservation. Such approaches have been attempted in many parts of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) but to date there has been no systematic assessment of their characteristics, outcomes, and limitations. To fill this gap, we surveyed participants and managers in integrated Landscape initiatives throughout the LAC region to characterize these initiatives’ contexts, motivations and objectives, stakeholders and participants, activities and investments, outcomes, and major successes and shortcomings. Results from 104 initiatives in 21 countries indicate that integrated Landscape Management is being applied across the region to address a variety of challenges in diverse contexts, and that use of this approach is expanding. Initiatives reported investing across four key “domains” of Landscape multi-functionality: agricultural production, ecosystem conservation, human livelihoods, and institutional planning and coordination. Initiatives reported positive outcomes across all four domains, but particularly with respect to institutional planning and coordination. Initiatives with larger numbers of objectives, investments, and participating stakeholder groups all reported significantly higher numbers of positive outcomes, suggesting significant value in the core precepts of the integrated Landscape Management approach. Key challenges identified by survey respondents—including the long time horizon required to achieve results at scale, unsupportive policy frameworks, and difficulty in engaging the private sector and other important stakeholders—offer insights for improving the future effectiveness of integrated Landscape initiatives.
Robin L Chazdon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
towards more effective integration of tropical forest restoration and conservation
Biotropica, 2019Co-Authors: Robin L ChazdonAbstract:Conservation and restoration interventions can be mutually reinforcing and are converging through an increased focus on social dimensions. This paper examines how to more effectively integrate the complementary goals of conservation and restoration of tropical forests. Forest conservation and restoration interventions are integral components of a broad approach to forest ecosystem and Landscape Management that aims to maintain and restore key ecological processes and enhance human well‐being, while minimizing biodiversity loss. The forest transition model provides a useful framework for understanding the relative importance of forest conservation and restoration interventions in different regions. Harmonizing conservation and restoration presents serious challenges for forest policy in tropical countries, particularly regarding the use and Management of secondary forests, fallow vegetation, and forests degraded by logging and fire. Research to implement restoration more effectively in tropical regions can be stimulated by transforming questions that initially focused on conservation issues. Examination of papers published in Biotropica from 2000–2018 shows that most studies relevant to tropical forest conservation do not address forest restoration issues. Forest restoration studies, on the other hand, show a consistent association with conservation issues. There is much scope for further integration of conservation and restoration in research, practice, and policy. Securing a sustainable future for tropical forests requires developing and applying integrated approaches to Landscape Management that effectively combine knowledge and tools from multiple disciplines with practical experience and engagement of local stakeholders. Abstract in Portuguese is available with online material.
Nuno Neves - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
using spatial network structure in Landscape Management and planning a case study with pond turtles
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2011Co-Authors: Miguel Pereira, Pedro Segurado, Nuno NevesAbstract:Connectivity is currently a central issue in Landscape Management and planning for the conservation of wildlife species occupying scarce habitat patches. In recent years, this issue has increasingly been addressed using methodologies based on spatial network analysis. Here, we propose a hybrid approach based on network analysis tools and empirical habitat suitability models to integrate connectivity on decision-making. The study is focused on a pond system used by the European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis, in a coastal area in southwestern Iberia. The main objective of the study was to illustrate how the output of graph models may be useful to guide habitat Management and planning. We assessed ponds according to three complementary structural and functional properties derived from a graph model: (1) pond importance as measured by the sensitivity of the overall connectivity to each pond loss, (2) pond coreness, used to identify the most cohesive pond subsystems and (3) pond betweenness, which measure the importance of ponds as stepping stones. The graph model took into account a resistance-to-movement surface, the maximum traveled distance and a habitat suitability model based on field sampling. Pond importance and coreness were shown to be positively related to occupancy, especially by turtle's youngest age classes, suggesting an important contribution of connectivity attributes for turtle populations. We discuss the ways these pond connectivity-related attributes may be helpful to assist and optimize Management efforts for the conservation of the European pond turtle in the study area.
Tobias Plieninger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
the potential for integrated Landscape Management to fulfil europe s commitments to the sustainable development goals
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2018Co-Authors: Carsten Mann, Maria Garciamartin, Christopher M Raymond, Brian J Shaw, Tobias PlieningerAbstract:Abstract The aim of this perspective essay is to discuss how integrated Landscape Management (ILM) can contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda in Europe. Challenges for sustainable development become evident in the emergence of land-use conflicts. Facing multiple, and in sometimes conflicting, land-use objectives and policies, we elaborate on the potential of ILM to support multifunctionality and integration across sectors and scales. Based on three recent land-use conflict cases from distinct European contexts, we empirically identify and discuss key characteristics of ILM for land-use conflict resolution as a means for SDG implementation. These conflicts are (1) agricultural production versus nature conservation, (2) urban sprawl and rural land abandonment versus Landscape integrity, and (3) renewable energy generation versus Landscape aesthetics. In our cases we find common concerns of decreasing Landscape quality as a basis for actors to engage in collective action, the need for multi-actor/multi-sector collaboration, and the assignment of clear rights and responsibilities for land Management. In contrast, issues of capacity building, transparency in decision-making and flexibility for adaptations are found lacking. Finally, we discuss ways how ILM can improve policy and practice to handle ambiguous interests and goals, and highlight the future role of Landscape research in supporting SDG implementation at the Landscape level in Europe.
-
the role of cultural ecosystem services in Landscape Management and planning
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2015Co-Authors: Tobias Plieninger, Claudia Bieling, Nora Fagerholm, Tibor Hartel, Patrick T Hurley, Cesar Lopezsantiago, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Elisa OterosrozasAbstract:There is increasing concern that the ecosystem services approach puts emphasis on optimizing a small number of services, which may jeopardize environmental sustainability. One potential solution is to bring cultural ecosystem services more strongly into the foreground. We synthesize recent empirical evidence and assess what consideration of cultural ecosystem services adds to Landscape Management and planning. In general, cultural ecosystem services incentivize the multifunctionality of Landscapes. However, depending on context, cultural ecosystem services can either encourage the maintenance of valuable Landscapes or act as barriers to necessary innovation and transformation. Hence, cultural ecosystems services are not uncontested, as seen through the three analytical lenses of landowner behavior, cultural practices of communities, and Landscape planning.
