Inequity in ecosystem service delivery: socioeconomic gaps in the public-private conservation network

Villamagna, Amy M.; Mogollón, Beatriz; Angermeier, Paul L.

doi:10.5751/es-09021-220136

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“…Our study demonstrates that the application of ES can provide insights for the interdisciplinary assessment land trust conservation. Since land management policy in the U.S. is strongly influenced by the opinion, preferences and demands of the public, incorporating the opinion of local residents result essential to promote a more cost-effective and public-supported organization (Villamagna et al 2013(Villamagna et al , 2017Palomo et al 2014). Additionally, by identifying spatially explicit bundles where multiple conservation targets occur, the land trust can target specific parcels and private landowners where to prioritize conservation efforts.…”

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“…To ensure that the legal framework for land conservation will endure, all land trusts are committed to building strong public support for land conservation (Stolton et al 2014). Furthermore, despite the increase in conservation easements in land conservation, the public remains largely unaware of this private land approach to conservation (Villamagna et al 2017). Implementing on-the-ground conservation actions on private land mostly depends on landowners' willingness to collaborate with conservation agencies and their management capabilities (Bastian et al 2017;Vizek and Nielsen-Pincus 2017;Cortes-Campano et al 2019).…”

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An interdisciplinary assessment of private conservation areas in the Western United States

Quintas-Soriano

Gibson

Brandt

et al. 2020

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Conservation easements are the fastest growing private conservation strategy in the United States. However, mechanisms to assess private land conservation as well as their support by the general public are not well understood. This study uses the ecosystem services framework for assessing existing private lands in Idaho and identifies areas for future conservation easements. Using conservation targets of the land trust as a guide for selecting ecosystem services, we (a) mapped the spatial delivery of conservation targets across public and private lands, (b) explored public awareness in terms of social importance and vulnerability, and (c) mapped future priority areas by characterizing conservation bundles. We found that public lands provided the highest levels of conservation targets, and we found no difference in conservation target provision between private areas and conservation easements. The spatial characterization of conservation target bundles identified potential future priority areas for conservation easements, which can guide planning of land trust conservation efforts.

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An interdisciplinary assessment of private conservation areas in the Western United States

Quintas-Soriano

Gibson

Brandt

et al. 2020

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“…Volunteerism is also important in the establishment of new areas to protect natural capital. For example, a recent analysis of protected areas in Virginia and North Carolina (USA) suggests that conservation actions initiated by private landowners (e.g., easements) may be the most effective tools for expanding the protected areas network in ways that reduce current socioeconomic gaps in the distribution of conservation benefits to the public (Villamagna, Mogollón, & Angermeier, 2017). Incorporating the "lessons learned" from seminal work on common pool resource management can improve riverscape conservation planning (Ostrom, Burger, Field, Norgaard, & Policansky, 1999).…”

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Rivers are social–ecological systems: Time to integrate human dimensions into riverscape ecology and management

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Incorporation of concepts from landscape ecology into understanding and managing riverine ecosystems has become widely known as riverscape ecology. Riverscape ecology emphasizes interactions among processes at different scales and their consequences for valued ecosystem components, such as riverine fishes. Past studies have focused strongly on understanding the ecological processes in riverscapes and how human actions modify those processes. It is increasingly clear, however, that an understanding of the drivers behind actions that lead to human modification also merit consideration, especially regarding how those drivers influence management efficacy. These indirect drivers of riverscape outcomes can be understood in the context of a diverse array of social processes, which we collectively refer to as human dimensions. Like ecological phenomena, social processes also exhibit complex interactions across spatiotemporal scales. Greater emphasis on feedbacks between social and ecological processes will lead scientists and managers to more completely understand riverscapes as complex, dynamic, interacting social–ecological systems. Emerging applications in riverscapes, as well as studies of other ecosystems, provide examples that can lead to stronger integration of social and ecological science. We argue that conservation successes within riverscapes may not come from better ecological science, improved ecosystem service analyses, or even economic incentives if the fundamental drivers of human behaviors are not understood and addressed in conservation planning and implementation. This article is categorized under: Water and Life > Stresses and Pressures on Ecosystems Human Water > Water Governance Engineering Water > Planning Water

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“…These key interests are quite different from the legislative emphasis on landowner compensation and should be addressed in future policy amendments. Villamagna et al (2017) take a quantitative and spatially explicit approach to the distribution of environmental benefits from public-private conservation networks. With datasets of federal, state, and local private easement lands in North Carolina and Virginia, USA, they used a geographic information system to model ecosystem service flows from protected natural areas to nearby residents.…”

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The practice and promise of private land conservation

Drescher¹,

Brenner²

2018

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In many countries around the globe, private freehold lands cover large areas. Conservation on these private lands, next to statutory protected areas, promises to play a critical role in efforts for reaching internationally agreed environmental protection targets. Lying at the heart of an emerging land system science, in which ecology, economics, geography, psychology, and other social sciences interact, private land conservation is reflecting the intertwined and multiscalar processes of our rapidly transforming world. Situated at this disciplinary meeting point, private land conservation invites a great breadth of approaches and cross-disciplinary work that offer deep insights into social and environmental change, often from surprising angles. Although many questions remain in private land conservation, we can now build on a large body of recent high-quality studies as we push this field forward in both research and practice. The Special Feature "Private Land Conservation-Landowner Motives, Policies, and Outcomes of Conservation Measures in Unprotected Landscapes" brings together contributions that explore the diversity of recent advances in private land conservation science. As an introduction to this Special Feature, first we are reviewing recent dynamics in important social-ecological drivers with bearing on private land conservation science. We go on to introduce the individual contributions to this Special Feature and then examine common themes as they are emerging from these papers, including the need for flexibility in conservation approaches, pursuit of community cobenefits of conservation, increasing consideration of environmental justice questions, and acknowledgment of the importance of social psychology in shaping private land conservation. We conclude with identification of knowledge gaps and recommendations for future research, as we advance from diagnostics to normative work in private land conservation science.

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Inequity in ecosystem service delivery: socioeconomic gaps in the public-private conservation network

Cited by 20 publications

References 28 publications

An interdisciplinary assessment of private conservation areas in the Western United States

An interdisciplinary assessment of private conservation areas in the Western United States

Rivers are social–ecological systems: Time to integrate human dimensions into riverscape ecology and management

The practice and promise of private land conservation

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