Chapter 21 Ecosystem Mapping and Assessment

Erhard, Markus; Olah, Branislav; Banko, G.; Kleeschulte, Stefan; Abdul-Malak, Dania

doi:10.1201/9781315372860-22

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“…The ESE approach is widely conducted in scope to map categories that supply or have potential to provide services valuable for human use and meet demands of what society requires [58]. ESE by quantification can be applied to various spatial (land cover, land use, landscape patterns) and temporal time scales based on vast types of methodologies, depending on the assessment purpose [59]. Ecosystem assessment and mapping can be a complex series of steps; the most used is the ecosystem services matrix approach (ESMA), arranging ESE dimension values in relative scores according to certain indicators [60,61].…”

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“…Applied simplified approach of ESE to degraded site revitalization was based on the general methodology [53][54][55][56][57][58][59] of criteria evaluation according to available information on the case studies. In the performed case study evaluation (Table 2), the criteria were assessed as 'more relevant' (M) or 'less relevant' (L), meaning that they were not essential in the case of degraded site transformation to green space, but could be relevant for other revitalization projections.…”

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Case Study-Based Integrated Assessment of Former Waste Disposal Sites Transformed to Green Space in Terms of Ecosystem Services and Land Assets Recovery

et al. 2023

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Growing global production leads to continuing generation of waste, part of which still ends its life cycle in landfills and dumps. Despite the efforts of waste reuse and recycling and waste self-degradation, existing and old landfills and dumps remain a huge challenge for the future. The majority of landfills can be identified as non-sanitary and can be designated as existing or former dumps, meaning hills or fields of abandoned garbage and degraded inert waste masses without any or with little aftercare maintenance. In contrast, the term ‘landfill’ refers to legally organized waste disposal sites created in a controlled manner, according to modern environmentally responsible standards. The paper gives a case study-based integrated assessment of closed and revitalized waste disposal sites that have undergone a functional change from ‘lost territories’ to primarily green space beneficial for society and the urban environment, in terms of ecosystem services estimation based on the criteria evaluation approach and monetary assessment of land assets value recovery potential. The chosen four case studies (in the United States, Australia, Poland and Estonia) serve as successful examples of a sustainable degraded site revitalization gateway indicating opportunities for accelerating land value through the prism of ecosystem services estimations and spatial planning criteria. Beneficial value of land assets after site revitalization is assessed in monetary terms.

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Section: Estimation Of Ecosystem Services' Recovery Potentialmentioning

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Case Study-Based Integrated Assessment of Former Waste Disposal Sites Transformed to Green Space in Terms of Ecosystem Services and Land Assets Recovery

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“…The limiting factor for data usability on a local scale is the minimum size of the mapped area, which is 25 ha and the minimum width of line elements, which is 100 m. All CLC data layers are available on the EEA webpage: https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover/view, or Spatial Data Registry (SDR): https://rpi.gov.sk/en. Their universal features and compatibility with other environmental data in European countries is evidenced by a number of works assessing landscape changes [18][19][20][21], development flows and landscape dynamics [15,22,23], fragmentation and its impact on the landscape [24][25][26], ecosystem services assessment [27,28]. Druga and Minár [29] used CLC data to interpret the exposure of landscape structure to human influence.…”

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Comparison of CORINE Land Cover Data with National Statistics and the Possibility to Record This Data on a Local Scale—Case Studies from Slovakia

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Monitoring of land cover (LC) provides important information of actual land use (LU) and landscape dynamics. LC research results depend on the size of the area, purpose and applied methodology. CORINE Land Cover (CLC) data is one of the most important sources of LU data from a European perspective. Our research compares official CLC data (third hierarchical level of nomenclature at a scale of 1:100,000) and national statistics (NS) of LU in Slovakia between 2000 and 2018 at national, county, and local levels. The most significant differences occurred in arable land and permanent grassland, which is also related to the recording method and the development of agricultural land management. Due to the abandonment of agricultural areas, a real recorded increase in forest cover due to forest succession was not introduced in the official records of Land register. New modification of CLC methodology for identifying LC classes at a scale of 1:10,000 and fifth hierarchical level of CLC is firstly applied for local case studies representing lowland, basin, and mountain landscape. The size of the least identified and simultaneously recorded area was established at 0.1 ha the minimum width of a polygon was established at 10 m, the minimum recorded width of linear elements such as communications was established at 2 m. The use of the fifth CLC level in the case studies areas generated average boundary density 17.2 km/km2, comparing to the 2.6 km/km2 of the third level. Therefore, when measuring the density of spatial information by the polygon boundary lengths, the fifth level carries 6.6 times more information than the third level. Detailed investigation of LU affords better verification of national statistics data at a local level. This study also contributes to a more detailed recording of the current state of the Central European landscape and its changes.

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