Agricultural landscapes, ecosystem services and regional competitiveness—Assessing drivers and mechanisms in nine European case study areas

Lena Schaller; Stefano Targetti; Anastasio J. Villanueva; Ingo Zasada; Jochen Kantelhardt; Manuel Arriaza; Tufan Bal; Valérie Bossi Fedrigotti; F. Handan Giray; Kati Häfner; Edward Majewski; Agata Malak-Rawlikowska; Dimitre Nikolov; Jean Christophe Paoli; Annette Piorr; Macario Rodríguez-Entrena; Fabrizio Ungaro; Peter H. Verburg; Boris van Zanten; Davide Viaggi

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.001

Agricultural landscapes, ecosystem services and regional competitiveness—Assessing drivers and mechanisms in nine European case study areas

Lena Schaller^*, Stefano Targetti, Anastasio J. Villanueva, Ingo Zasada, Jochen Kantelhardt, Manuel Arriaza, Tufan Bal, Valérie Bossi Fedrigotti, F. Handan Giray, Kati Häfner, Edward Majewski, Agata Malak-Rawlikowska, Dimitre Nikolov, Jean Christophe Paoli, Annette Piorr, Macario Rodríguez-Entrena, Fabrizio Ungaro, Peter H. Verburg, Boris van Zanten, Davide Viaggi

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Agricultural landscapes affect regional development and competitiveness in a way far beyond the production of agricultural commodities. However, comprehensive assessments of the relevant cause-effects between agricultural landscape and regional competitiveness are complex and they require a range of ecological, economic and social aspects to be considered. This study proposes an stakeholder-based ‘Analytic Network Process’ applied in nine European case-study areas in order to assess the role of economic actors, ecosystem services, socio-economic benefits and regional competitiveness in the agricultural landscape system. The results reveal that agricultural food production is still perceived as a major element for creating value from landscapes. However in some case studies, the importance of non-marketable, socio-cultural and environmental public good-type ecosystem services outweighs the importance of agricultural production. Region-specific variations of cause-effect relationships are discussed and a range of drivers, related to biophysical conditions, land-use patterns, agricultural management and remoteness are identified. Our study reveals the perception of non-monetary services and their impact on regional competitiveness and provides considerations on entry points for rural policies promoting landscape valorisation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	735-745
Number of pages	11
Journal	Land Use Policy
Volume	76
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.001
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2018

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The work has been supported by the EU-FP7 CLAIM Project , grant number- 289578 . This work does not necessarily reflect the view of the EU and in no way anticipates the Commission’s future policy. The authors would like to thank the reviewers of the paper and the stakeholder panels in the nine CSAs for their valuable contribution to the study. L. Schaller, S. Targetti and A.J. Villanueva have contributed in equal part to leading this paper. Appendix A

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Seventh Framework Programme	289578

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Analytic Network Process
Common Agricultural Policy
Landscape valorisation
Participatory approach
Rural competitiveness
Stakeholders

UN SDGs

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Schaller, L., Targetti, S., Villanueva, A. J., Zasada, I., Kantelhardt, J., Arriaza, M., Bal, T., Fedrigotti, V. B., Giray, F. H., Häfner, K., Majewski, E., Malak-Rawlikowska, A., Nikolov, D., Paoli, J. C., Piorr, A., Rodríguez-Entrena, M., Ungaro, F., Verburg, P. H., van Zanten, B., & Viaggi, D. (2018). Agricultural landscapes, ecosystem services and regional competitiveness—Assessing drivers and mechanisms in nine European case study areas. Land Use Policy, 76, 735-745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.001

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