Indicators for multifunctional land use—Linking socio-economic requirements with landscape potentials

Wiggering, Hubert; Dalchow, Claus; Glemnitz, Michael; Helming, Katharina; Müller, Klaus; Schultz, Alfred; Stachow, Ulrich; Zander, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2005.08.014

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“…Benefits of land use can be seen as outputs. Two sorts of outputs are distinguished (Wiggering et al 2006): (1) commodity outputs (tangible benefits), which are defined as the goods that are sold on a market. Non-commodity outputs (intangible benefits) (2) may be the production of positive externalities or the reduction of negative externalities.…”

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Flood risk perceptions and spatial multi-criteria analysis: an exploratory research for hazard mitigation

2008

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The conventional method of risk analysis (with risk as a product of probability and consequences) does not allow for a pluralistic approach that includes the various risk perceptions of stakeholders or lay people within a given social system. This article introduces a methodology that combines the virtues of three different methods: the quantifiable conventional approach to risk; the taxonomic analysis of perceived risk; and the analytical framework of a spatial multi-criteria analysis. This combination of methods is applied to the case study 'Ebro Delta' in Spain as part of the European sixth framework project 'Floodsite'. First, a typology for flood hazards is developed based on individual and/or stakeholders' judgements. Awareness, worry and preparedness are the three characteristics that typify a community to reflect various levels of ignorance, perceived security, perceived control or desired risk reduction. Applying 'worry' as the central characteristic, a trade-off is hypothesized between Worry and the benefits groups in society receive from a risky situation. Second, this trade-off is applied in Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis (SMCA). MCA is the vehicle that often accompanies participatory processes, where governmental bodies have to decide on issues in which local stakeholders have a say. By using risk perception-scores as weights in a standard MCA procedure a new decision framework for risk assessment is developed. Finally, the case of sea-level rise in the Ebro Delta in Spain serves as an illustration of the applied methodology. Risk perception information has been collected with help of an on-site survey. Risk perception enters the multi-criteria analysis as complementary weights for the criteria risk and benefit. The results of the survey are applied to a set of scenarios representing both sea-level rise and land subsidence for a time span of 50 years. Land use alternatives have been presented to stakeholders in order to provide the regional decision maker with societal preferences 123Nat Hazards (2008) 46:307-322 DOI 10.1007 for handling risk. Even with limited resources a characteristic 'risk profile' could be drawn that enables the decision maker to develop a suitable land use policy.

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Flood risk perceptions and spatial multi-criteria analysis: an exploratory research for hazard mitigation

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“…The first one relates to the abandonment of agricultural activity (agriculture extensification), which is expressed, for example, by a gradual discontinuance of intensive agrarian activity or an increase in the acreage of follow farmland. This course of change is being observed in all European countries, where agricultural activity is becoming progressively less important or marginal in relation to other economic activities or land use (Wiggering et al 2006;Pinto-Correia, Breman, 2008). Another symptom of rural area marginalisation is a deterioration of socio-demographic and infrastructure conditions (community marginalisation), manifested inter alia, by depopulation and a worsening of the living condition of ru-ral gminas.…”

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Rural area marginalisation: searching for tendencies. Case study: the Western fringes of Poland

Markuszewska

2015

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Abstract. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the intensity of rural area marginalisation. As a study region, Western periphery of Poland has been chosen. The spatial scope of the research covers three border voivodeships: Dolnośląskie, Lubuskie and Zachodniopomorskie, however, the study was conducted at the local level, including 310 rural and rural-urban gminas (administrative region of the 3 rd order in Poland). The statistical data were derived from the Central Statistical Office from the period of last two decades. Results revealed the differences in the level of rural area marginalization and were analysed in terms of agricultural and socio-economic aspects.

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“…Considering the limitations of area and utilization competition, these modified landscape configurations will confront public and policy actors with multiple challenges for SD. To assess SD at the landscape level, it is essential to connect the future demand and supply of region-specific portfolios of functions related to land use [6,7]. Hence, an ex-ante Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) of the anticipated effects on land use related functions [8] in the research area of north-eastern Germany and, in particular, the types of area lowland fens and sewage farms is necessary.…”

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“…Sustainable development (SD) is characterized as a multi-level, multi-sectoral and cross-policy issue [5]. Land use changes always have intended and non-intended effects [6]. Consequently, land and water management stand in an area of tension between different region-specific uses and protection logics.…”

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Stakeholder Strategies for Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Scenarios: Analytical Framework and Identifying Land Use Claims

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Despite scientific progress in operationalizing sustainable development (SD), it is still hampered by methodological challenges at the regional level. We developed a framework to analyse stakeholder based, SD targets for future land use, which are characterized by different impact levels and spatial references. The framework allows for the analysis of land use demands in the context of SD. We identified societal use targets in north-eastern Germany, particularly for the area type's lowland fens and irrigation fields, represented through strategy documents. We used frame analysis to aggregate and condense the targets into land use claims. Results present a framework for the ex-ante Sustainability Impact Assessment of land use changes at the regional level and the determination and regionalization of the future societal demand for land use functions. For future land use at the regional level, manifold land use claims exist, but on smaller scales, area-specific targets are less apparent. Six key main-use claims and 44 side-use claims were identified at the regional level and for area types. Possible trade-offs among land use claims for land use functions can be identified at each governance level. Implications of the methodological OPEN ACCESSLand 2015, 4 779 approach are discussed according to moving development targets and SD as multi-sector and multi-level governance issues.

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Indicators for multifunctional land use—Linking socio-economic requirements with landscape potentials

Cited by 258 publications

References 5 publications

Flood risk perceptions and spatial multi-criteria analysis: an exploratory research for hazard mitigation

Flood risk perceptions and spatial multi-criteria analysis: an exploratory research for hazard mitigation

Rural area marginalisation: searching for tendencies. Case study: the Western fringes of Poland

Stakeholder Strategies for Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Scenarios: Analytical Framework and Identifying Land Use Claims

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