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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Published in:Agriculture (Basel) 2021-12, Vol.11 (12), p.1193
Main Authors: Schwartz, Carmen, Shaaban, Mostafa, Bellingrath-Kimura, Sonoko Dorothea, Piorr, Annette
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural ecosystems
Agricultural land
agricultural landscapes
Arable land
Artificial intelligence
Beneficiaries
Biodiversity
Carbon sequestration
Decision support systems
Demand
Ecosystem services
Ecosystems
Environmental economics
Explicit knowledge
Geographic information systems
Land management
Land use
Land use management
Landscape
participatory mapping
PGIS
Provisioning
Regulation
Remote sensing
Stakeholders
Workshops
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2077-0472
2077-0472
DOI:10.3390/agriculture11121193