Cross-site analysis of perceived ecosystem service benefits in multifunctional landscapes

Nora Fagerholm; Mario Torralba; Gerardo Moreno; Marco Girardello; Felix Herzog; Stephanie Aviron; Paul Burgess; Josep Crous-Duran; Nuria Ferreiro-Domínguez; Anil Graves; Tibor Hartel; Vlad Măcicăsan; Sonja Kay; Anastasia Pantera; Anna Varga; Tobias Plieninger

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.04.002

Cross-site analysis of perceived ecosystem service benefits in multifunctional landscapes

Nora Fagerholm, Mario Torralba, Gerardo Moreno, Marco Girardello, Felix Herzog, Stephanie Aviron, Paul Burgess, Josep Crous-Duran, Nuria Ferreiro-Domínguez, Anil Graves, Tibor Hartel, Vlad Măcicăsan, Sonja Kay, Anastasia Pantera, Anna Varga, Tobias Plieninger

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Rural development policies in many Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries promote sustainable landscape management with the intention of providing multiple ecosystem services (ES). Yet, it remains unclear which ES benefits are perceived in different landscapes and by different people. We present an assessment of ES benefits perceived and mapped by residents (n = 2,301) across 13 multifunctional (deep rural to peri-urban) landscapes in Europe. We identify the most intensively perceived ES benefits, their spatial patterns, and the respondent and landscape characteristics that determine ES benefit perception. We find outdoor recreation, aesthetic values and social interactions are the key ES benefits at local scales. Settlement areas are ES benefit hotspots but many benefits are also related to forests, waters and mosaic landscapes. We find some ES benefits (e.g. culture and heritage values) are spatially clustered, while many others (e.g. aesthetic values) are dispersed. ES benefit perception is linked to people's relationship with and accessibility to a landscape. Our study discusses how a local perspective can contribute to the development of contextualized and socially acceptable policies for sustainable ES management. We also address conceptual confusion in ES framework and present argumentation regarding the links from services to benefits, and from benefits to different types of values.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	134-147
Journal	Global Environmental Change
Volume	56
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.04.002
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2019
Externally published	Yes

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The authors acknowledge funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No. 613520 (project AGFORWARD). We would like to thank the residents in all the study areas for participating in the survey. We also acknowledge the contribution of M. Azevedo Coutinho, I. Balsa da Silva, J. Bódis, V. Caudon, A. Dind, F. Franchella, P. Francon-Smith, E. Galanou, S. García-de-Jalón, J.M. Giralt Rueda, M. Horváth, Q. Louviot, K. Mantzanas, J. Palma, G. Petrucco, A. Sidiropoulou and A. Teixeira to the survey data collection. This research contributes to the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society ( www.pecs-science.org ).

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Seventh Framework Programme	613520
Seventh Framework Programme

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Fagerholm, N., Torralba, M., Moreno, G., Girardello, M., Herzog, F., Aviron, S., Burgess, P., Crous-Duran, J., Ferreiro-Domínguez, N., Graves, A., Hartel, T., Măcicăsan, V., Kay, S., Pantera, A., Varga, A., & Plieninger, T. (2019). Cross-site analysis of perceived ecosystem service benefits in multifunctional landscapes. Global Environmental Change, 56, 134-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.04.002

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