scholarly journals Qualitative Assessment of Forest Ecosystem Services: The Stakeholders’ Point of View in Support of Landscape Planning

Forests ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella De Meo ◽  
Maria Cantiani ◽  
Fabrizio Ferretti ◽  
Alessandro Paletto
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Cultural Services ◽  
Forest Management Planning

In the last decades, the ecosystem services (ES) concept has become one of the main challenges of study and discussion in the scientific community. The quantitative and qualitative assessment of ES is as a tool to address forest management planning on a local scale. Forest landscape management planning is the most suitable level for integrating social needs and demands in the enhancement of different forest ES. Some regions in Italy have developed forest landscape management plans taking into account the social preferences for the different ES. In this paper, we refer to five case studies in three pilot areas in Italy. A survey collected and analyzed the opinions and preferences, from 362 stakeholders, for ten ES included in three categories (provisioning, regulating and cultural services). The main aim of this study is to understand what type of variables (study area, the groups of interest and socio-demographic characteristics of respondents) most influence stakeholder preferences for ES. The results show that for the sample of stakeholders involved in the survey, the most important ES category is regulating services followed by cultural services. In addition, the results show that the group of stakeholders’ interest is the most important variable influencing their preferences for ES.

scholarly journals A Framework for Addressing Multiple Ecosystem Services in Forest Management Planning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emin Zeki BASKENT ◽  
Jose Guilherme BORGES ◽  
Jan KASPAR
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Forest Ecosystem Management

Abstract Background: Forest policy and decision makers are challenged by the need to balance the increasing demand for multiple ecosystem services while addressing the impacts of natural disturbances (e.g. wildfires, droughts, wind, insect attacks) and global change scenarios (e.g. climate change) on its potential supply. This challenge provides the motivation for the development of a framework for incorporating concerns with a wide range of ecosystem services in multiple criteria management planning contexts. Thus, the paper focused on both the analysis of the current state-of-the art in forest management planning and the development of a conceptual framework to accommodate various components in a forest ecosystem management planning process.Results: Based on a thorough recent classification of forest management planning problems and the state-of-the-art research, the key dimensions of that framework and the process were defined. The emphasis is on helping identify how concerns with a wide range of ecosystem services may be analyzed and better understood by forest ecosystem management planning. This research discusses the potential of contemporary management planning approaches to address multiple forest ecosystem services. It highlights the need of a landscape-level perspective and of spatial resolution to integrate multiple ecosystem services. It discusses the importance of methods and tools that may help support the involvement of stakeholders and public participation in hierarchical planning processes. Conclusions: The research addressed the need of methods and tools that may encapsulate the ecological, economic and social complexity of forest ecosystem management to provide an efficient plan, information about tradeoffs between ecosystem services as well as the sensitivity of the plan to uncertain parameters (e.g. prices, climate change) in a timely manner.

scholarly journals Ecosystem Services for Scenic Quality Landscape Management: A Review

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1123
Author(s):  
Richard Smardon
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Management Implications ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Visual Landscape ◽  
Landscape Quality

Since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project proposed the valuation of ecosystem services—defined as regulatory, provisional, ecosystem and cultural—the question arises as to the utility of such assessments for scenic landscape management. This author as well as others has looked at the issue of integrating ecological concerns with landscape planning. This article will be a comprehensive literature review and analysis of issues involved with utilizing ecosystem services of assessment of scenic/visual landscape quality as well as management implications. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of cultural ecosystem services.

scholarly journals Co-creation of knowledge for the inclusion of the ecosystem services approach in the landscape management planning in the Basque Country

Ecosistemas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miren Onaindia Olalde ◽  
Lorena Peña López ◽  
Beatriz Fernández de Manuel ◽  
Leire Méndez ◽  
María Viota ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Management Planning

scholarly journals Web-Based Forest Resources Management Decision Support System

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Marto ◽  
Keith Reynolds ◽  
José Borges ◽  
Vladimir Bushenkov ◽  
Susete Marques ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
The Web

In this paper, we present a web-based decision support system (DSS)—wSADfLOR—to facilitate the access of stakeholders to tools that may contribute to enhancing forest management planning. The emphasis is on a web-based architecture and a web graphic user interface (wGUI) that may effectively support the analysis of trade-offs between ecosystem services in order to address participatory and sustainable forest management objectives. For that purpose, the wGUI provides remote access to a management information system, enabling users to analyze environmental and biometric data and topological information as well. Moreover, the wGUI provides remote access to forest simulators so that users may define and simulate prescriptions such as chronological sequences of management options and the corresponding forest ecosystem services outcomes. Remote access to management planning methods is further provided so that users may input their objectives and constraints. The wGUI delivers information about tradeoffs between ecosystem services in the form of decision maps so that users in different locations may negotiate bundles of ecosystem services as well as the plan needed to provide them. The multiple criteria programming routines provide proposals for management plans that may be assessed further, using geographical and alphanumeric information provided by the wGUI. Results for an application to a forested landscape extending to 14,388 ha are presented and discussed. This landscape provides several ecosystem services and the development of its management plan involves multiple stakeholders. Results show that the web-based architecture and the wGUI provide effective access for stakeholders to information about the forest management planning area and to decision support tools that may contribute to addressing complex multi-objective and multiple-decision-maker management planning contexts. They also highlight that the involvement and participation of stakeholders in the design of the web-based architecture contributes to assuring the quality and the usability of the system.

scholarly journals Bi-Level Participatory Forest Management Planning Supported by Pareto Frontier Visualization

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-500
Author(s):  
S Marques ◽  
V A Bushenkov ◽  
A V Lotov ◽  
M Marto ◽  
J G Borges
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Pareto Frontier ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Master Problem ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Decomposition Approach ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Interactive Decision Maps

Abstract This research addresses the problem of forested landscape management planning in contexts characterized by multiple ecosystem services and multiple stakeholders. A new methodology for participatory landscape-level forest management is proposed. Specifically, a bilevel representation is used, whereas models of subsystems are used for constructing an integrated model of the master problem. Participatory workshops and interactive visualization of the Pareto frontier are used to support the solution of the multi-objective optimization upper- and lower-level problems. The visualization is implemented by a technique—Interactive Decision Maps—that displays interactively the Pareto frontier in the form of decision maps, that is, collections of the objectives’ tradeoff curves. Since the upper-level problem may be characterized by a large number of decision variables, we compare the Pareto frontier generated by the Interactive Decision Maps technique with the Pareto frontier generated by a decomposition approach that builds from the Pareto frontiers of the lower-level subproblems. The approach supports further the negotiation between upper- and lower-level goals. Results are discussed for a large-scale application in a forested landscape in northwest Portugal.

Public Participation in Forest Landscape Management Planning (FLMP) in Italy

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 465-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Paletto ◽  
Maria Giulia Cantiani ◽  
Isabella De Meo
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Management Planning

scholarly journals Adaptive Water Management-land Use Practice for Improving Ecosystem Services – a Hungarian Modelling Case Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsolt Kozma ◽  
Zsolt Jolánkai ◽  
Máté Krisztián Kardos ◽  
Bálint Muzelák ◽  
László Koncsos
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Adaptive Landscape ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Territorial Conflicts ◽  
Provisioning Ecosystem Services ◽  
Alternative Water

During the 20th century in the Hungarian lowlands the emphasis was put on maximizing provisioning ecosystem services (ES), which caused the weakening of regulating and other services. With the growing environmental pressures, it is crucial to apply a more adaptive landscape management. This, however, leads to territorial conflicts, as large areas with water-tolerant land cover (i.e., wetlands, meadows, riparian forests) are needed to buffer extreme hydrological events.We present some findings of the WateRisk project, a research that focused on the possible solutions of these conflicts. In a scenario-based case study, we analyze the outlined issue for the Szamos-Kraszna Interfluve, a 510 km2 lowland catchment heavily affected by excess water. Scenarios were evaluated with an integrated methodology that focuses on the water budget and the total values of ES. The efficiency of the drainage network was found to be minor/moderate as it provided only -1–5% reduction in the spatial extents of inundations, and it contributed only ~20% to the elimination of water coverage. Furthermore, comparing the present (defense-focused) and the alternative (water retention focused) scenarios, the latter turned out to provide higher monetary value for the summed individual and social benefits of ES. This underlines the need for extensive adaptive measures in both water management and landscape planning to create resilience and the ability to cope with contemporary environmental challenges.

Assessing synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in forest landscape management

2021 ◽  
pp. 105741
Author(s):  
Ali Akbar Jafarzadeh ◽  
Ali Mahdavi ◽  
Seyed Rashid Fallah Shamsi ◽  
Rasoul Yousefpour
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Trade Offs

scholarly journals A Framework for Characterizing and Regulating Ecosystem Services in a Management Planning Context

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emin Zeki BASKENT
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Cultural Services ◽  
Human Wellbeing

Sustainable management promises to improve the conservation and utilization of ecosystem services and their contribution to human wellbeing through management plans. This paper explores the concept of characterization and integration of ecosystem services in a management planning concept. The integration process involves the identification, quantification, valuation, assessment, and monitoring of ecosystem services over time. The quantification of common ecosystem services, such as soil erosion, water conservation, recreation, biodiversity conservation, and carbon sequestration was explored. A framework was developed to integrate ecosystem services into management planning process. Ecosystem services are classified as provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural services with a defined typology. The conceptual framework acts as an organizing structure and it serves as a model for the management of ecosystems with their contribution to human wellbeing. Ecosystem management with multi-criteria decision techniques, information technologies and a structured participation is a proposed approach for the sustainable management of ecological, economic, and socio-cultural functions. Establishing the quantitative relationships between ecosystem services and societal benefits is essential. The provision of a universally accepted clear measurement of regulating, supporting, and cultural services is challenging. A commitment, vision, and strong willingness are required to adopt policies, regulations, and management objectives in planning. Integration can only be realized with prioritizing ecosystem services with the involvement of stakeholders. Substantial understanding of both the ecological and social systems is a prerequisite for sustainable management of ecosystem services. The ecosystem services with significant benefits to the wellbeing of society should primarily be characterized, their relative importance be weighted, and prioritized through a participatory approach. A holistic approach with a comprehensive decision support system is essential in forecasting the future provision of ecosystem services and assessing the trade-off analysis, resulting in better policy formulation before on-the-ground implementation.

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