Identifying ecosystem service hotspots for targeting land degradation neutrality investments in south-eastern Africa

Willemen, L.; Crossman, Neville D.; Quatrini, Simone; Egoh, Benis N.; Kalaba, Felix Kanungwe; Mbilinyi, Boniface; Groot, R.S. de

doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2017.05.009

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“…For instance, in the South African and Chinese WaterSES sites, scientific agendas are emerging that are strongly guided by water societal demands [60,61]. Similarly, in the Spanish semi-arid watersheds (Almeria, Spain) there is a strong body of recent work on the social-ecological issues surrounding water scarcity and the loss of ecosystem services [62][63][64], much of which has potential applicability to WaterSES sites in the USA, including insights as to the consequences of a future, drier climate.…”

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Applying Place-Based Social-Ecological Research to Address Water Scarcity: Insights for Future Research

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Globally, environmental and social change in water-scarce regions challenge the sustainability of social-ecological systems. WaterSES, a sponsored working group within the Program for Ecosystem Change and Society, explores and compares the social-ecological dynamics related to water scarcity across placed-based international research sites with contrasting local and regional water needs and governance, including research sites in Spain and Sweden in Europe, South Africa, China, and Alabama, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Texas in the USA. This paper aims to provide a commentary on insights into conducting future solutions-oriented research on water scarcity based on the understanding of the social-ecological dynamics of water scarce regions.

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“…Using ES free-listing (bottom-up classifications), flexible classification systems and pretesting classifications with diverse stakeholders across scales have been widely applied to overcome these difficulties (Martín-López et al 2012, Willemen et al 2017. The use of more diffuse ES classification, such as that of Nature Contributions to People (NCP) from IPBES, in contrast with other siloed classifications (e.g.…”

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“…In a study in South-Eastern Africa (Willemen et al, 2017), maps were derived from a combination of model-based maps and PGIS data in order to identify ES hotspots where these outcomes of the two approaches coincided in space. In some cases, despite the loss of information, simplification or generalisation can be a way forward to circumvent the lack of dataMeerbeek et al 2016.…”

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Practical solutions for bottlenecks in ecosystem services mapping

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“…Land use/land cover change can alter ecosystem functions, and are considered as one of the most important drivers of ecosystem services change (Jiang et al, 2016;Petz et al, 2014;Song et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2015). has dramatically changed landscapes, causing land degradation to be a common issue worldwide (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005;Willemen et al, 2018;Sagar et al, 2017). extensive deforestation, cropland and urban expansion, etc.)…”

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Target areas for harmonizing the Grain for Green Programme in China's Loess Plateau

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Widespread land degradation has stimulated the implementation of a large‐scale ecological restoration programme in China's Loess Plateau—the Grain‐for‐Green Programme (GFGP). This programme has substantially increased vegetation cover and served to control soil erosion, but threatened regional food supply due to widespread cropland conversion. Consequently, a strategy balancing green and grain land uses is required. Here, we establish a dominance index of ecosystem services by quantifying the economic value of four key ecosystem services (net primary productivity, soil conservation, water yield, and food production), by combining spatially explicit datasets and census data. Using the dominance index, we identify the optimal areas to target for GFGP in the Loess Plateau. The identified areas (target areas) were the transition zone from low to high value of ecosystem services (ESV). These areas exhibited low grain productivity in addition to having the highest potential for soil conservation. Compared with other regions of the Loess Plateau, the loss of grain production due to cropland conversion in these target areas could decrease by 42%, whereas ESV could increase by 33%. Therefore, despite the fact that over the past 15 years (2000–2014) in these target areas more cropland was converted into ecological use (i.e. forest/grassland), there is still a need to strengthen ecological restoration in this region in the future. This study proposed a strategy for balancing green and grain from a spatial perspective, which could potentially solve land degradation issues and the tradeoff between ecosystem services in a more beneficial and targeted way.

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Identifying ecosystem service hotspots for targeting land degradation neutrality investments in south-eastern Africa

Cited by 40 publications

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Applying Place-Based Social-Ecological Research to Address Water Scarcity: Insights for Future Research

Applying Place-Based Social-Ecological Research to Address Water Scarcity: Insights for Future Research

Practical solutions for bottlenecks in ecosystem services mapping

Target areas for harmonizing the Grain for Green Programme in China's Loess Plateau

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