A comparative approach to assess the contribution of landscape features to aesthetic and recreational values in agricultural landscapes

Zanten, Boris T. van; Zasada, Ingo; Koetse, Mark J.; Ungaro, Fabrizio; Häfner, Kati; Verburg, Peter H.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.11.011

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“…Fortunately, such losses in human well-being have received increasing attention in economic analysis and public policy making, based on the ecosystem services functions as well as human well-being indicators made in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Experiment Method (CE), etc. [44][45][46]. However, these methods have some inherent defects, to be more specific, CVM can only estimate a well-being change caused by one certain state of environmental change and the accuracy of its result is affected by more than ten kinds of inherent latent deviations such as hypothetical deviation, partial-global deviation, strategic deviation, etc.…”

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How does the Ecological Well-Being of Urban and Rural Residents Change with Rural-Urban Land Conversion? The Case of Hubei, China

2018

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Human well-being can be affected by the loss of ecosystem services from conversion of agricultural lands. Uncovering negative ecological consequences of rural-urban conversion is important for regulating rural-urban land conversion. This paper evaluates the impacts of rural-urban land conversion on the ecological well-being of different interest groups in China and makes policy recommendations for mitigating them. This research empirically quantifies and compares changes in the ecological well-being of rural and urban residents due to rural-urban land conversion and examines how transformation factors affect such changes in Hubei, China using the Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation Model. Results show that compared with urban residents, rural resident ecological well-being level declines more obviously with rural-urban land conversion. Two socio-demographic characteristics, age and education level, as well as zoning characteristics, influence both rural and urban resident well-being changes. It is argued that there is a need for quantitative measurement of agricultural ecosystem services changes and that the construction of ecological compensation policies in areas undergoing rural-urban land conversion is essential for regulating rural-urban land conversion and for maintaining resident ecological well-being.

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How does the Ecological Well-Being of Urban and Rural Residents Change with Rural-Urban Land Conversion? The Case of Hubei, China

2018

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“…While land-use policies are classically based on LA-capacity assessments, capacity-flow comparison analyses of ecosystem services have shown to provide insightful information to land-use policy and planning Schröter et al, 2014). For LA-flow assessments, novel methodological approaches based on geolocated social media data are recently gaining importance (Oteros-Rozas et al, 2017;Pastur et al, 2016;Plieninger et al, 2013;Richards and Friess, 2015;Tenerelli et al, 2016;van Zanten et al, 2016a;Yoshimura and Hiura, 2017). Geolocated social media data, and photos in particular, provide spatially explicit observations of people's preferences and behaviour (Dunkel, 2015) and promise to overcome major limitations of classical subjectivist assessments at larger scales related to costs and time of data provision, and representativeness (cf.…”

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“…Ecosystem service assessments are gaining momentum in informing land-use policies (MEA, 2005;van Zanten et al, 2016a;Wiedmann et al, 2015). Landscape aesthetics (LA)-and the wider concept of aesthetic appreciation (MEA, 2005; TEEB, 2010)-receives considerable attention in the growing literature on cultural ecosystem services (e.g.…”

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“…However, most of these methods provide limited spatial information and/or are limited to a small group of stakeholders expressing their subjective perceptions, as is the case for most participatory mapping exercises (Paracchini et al, 2014;van Zanten et al, 2016a). Larger scale assessments of LA mainly rely on expert evaluations based on the presence or absence of single landscape features that are supposed to enhance LA (Daniel et al, 2012).…”

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“…Common approaches for assessing LA in the ecosystem services literature include economic valuation approaches, such as hedonic pricing (Cho et al, 2008;Jiao and Liu, 2010) and contingent valuation (Willis and Garrod, 1993), and social-cultural valuation approaches based on interviews and surveys (Frank et al, 2013), focus groups (Scolozzi et al, 2012), photo elicitation (Tveit, 2009;van Zanten et al, 2016b), participatory mapping (Brown and Fagerholm, 2015;Plieninger et al, 2013), as well as qualitative archival analysis of photographs, audio-visual recordings and transcripts of historical interviews (Thiagarajah et al, 2015). However, most of these methods provide limited spatial information and/or are limited to a small group of stakeholders expressing their subjective perceptions, as is the case for most participatory mapping exercises (Paracchini et al, 2014;van Zanten et al, 2016a).…”

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Mapping the intangible: Using geolocated social media data to examine landscape aesthetics

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A B S T R A C TThe ecosystem services concept is increasingly gaining momentum in land-use policies and landscape planning. Yet, cultural ecosystem services often lack proper assessments. With this study, we use novel methodological approaches to map the cultural ecosystem service landscape aesthetics for its enhanced consideration in land-use policies. Our study uses expert-based participatory mapping and crowd-sourced (social media) photo data to examine the spatial distribution of landscape aesthetics in the Province of Barcelona, Catalonia. We distinguish the capacity and flow of landscape aesthetics. Landscape aesthetics capacity was assessed through spatial multicriteria evaluation, consisting of a viewshed analysis and an expert-based selection and weighting of landscape features. Landscape aesthetics flow, i.e., people's actual appreciation of landscape aesthetics, was assessed by analysing a sample of 13,460 geolocated photographs from the social media platform Flickr. Our results uncover a substantial mismatch between landscape aesthetics capacity and flow. While landscape aesthetics capacity is widely distributed across the case study area, landscape aesthetics flow is (with few exceptions) mostly concentrated in urban and periurban areas. The main insights for land-use policies derived from our results are twofold. On one hand, landscape aesthetics flow seems less dependent on 'pristine nature' than experts and planners assume, while the complex integration of green and grey landscape features plays a critical role. On the other hand, urban and periurban landscapes as key landscape aesthetics providers should receive additional attention in land-use policies.

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Scale dependency in drivers of outdoor recreation in England

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Eigenbrod

2019

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1. Managing landscapes for multiple, sometimes conflicting, objectives requires an understanding of the trade-offs and synergies between ecosystem services (ES).These trade-offs and synergies are often the result of drivers acting at different scales. Therefore, in order to understand trade-offs and synergies it is important that we understand the scale dependency in drivers of ES. Here, we examine scale dependencies in the drivers of outdoor recreation inEngland to better understand trade-offs between different aspects of this ES. We focus on outdoor recreation because it is culturally and economically important; it is the result of a range of social and biophysical attributes which vary at different scales; and proxies that are independent of these drivers exist.3. First, we tested the hypothesis that a social media-based proxy (photographs from Flickr) represents 'destination' recreation (e.g. day trips and overnight visits). We did so by comparing to a survey-based proxy, which is known to represent 'dayto-day' recreation (e.g. dog walking, visiting local parks). Second, we examined the scale dependencies in the social and biophysical drivers of both types of outdoor recreation. Flickr data were best explained by variables capturing supply of recreation;whereas, the survey data were best explained by variables capturing demand for recreation. This confirms our hypothesis that Flickr data measure 'destination' recreation given that the survey data measure 'day-to-day' recreation. In both cases, the importance of demand variables increased with increasing spatial resolution. 5.Understanding what a proxy measures provides us with information about how to use it. We conclude that Flickr data may be useful to plan at broad scales, but that to plan for equitable day-to-day recreation, specially designed survey data may be more appropriate. Estimating the scale dependencies in drivers of outdoor recreation gets us a step closer to a mechanistic understanding of the social-ecological system. K E Y W O R D S ecosystem services, flickr, outdoor recreation, scale dependency, scaling | 407 People and Nature GRAHAM And EIGEnBROd

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A comparative approach to assess the contribution of landscape features to aesthetic and recreational values in agricultural landscapes

Cited by 131 publications

References 58 publications

How does the Ecological Well-Being of Urban and Rural Residents Change with Rural-Urban Land Conversion? The Case of Hubei, China

How does the Ecological Well-Being of Urban and Rural Residents Change with Rural-Urban Land Conversion? The Case of Hubei, China

Mapping the intangible: Using geolocated social media data to examine landscape aesthetics

Scale dependency in drivers of outdoor recreation in England

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