MULBO: Model framework for multicriteria landscape assessment and optimisation. A support system for spatial land use decisions

Meyer, Burghard C.; Grabaum, Ralf

doi:10.1080/01426390801907428

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“…To make better decisions, a systematic account of the relationships between ecosystem management and the generated ecosystem services is needed (de Groot et al 2010). There are recent assessments of natural capital and ecosystem services (e.g., Blashke 2005;Haines-Young et al 2006;Chan et al 2006;Naidoo and Ricketts 2006;Gimona and Van der Horst 2007;Egoh et al 2008;Meyer and Grabaum 2008;Grêt-Regamey et al 2008;Naidoo et al 2008;Raymond et al 2009). However, they are not suitable for representing services at a single location or assessing the spatial and temporal services change.…”

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Modeling hydrological ecosystem services and tradeoffs: a case study in Baiyangdian watershed, China

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Policy makers and scientists consider that land use strategies are designed to provide direct benefits to people by protecting vital ecosystem services. However, due to lack of information and evaluation methods, there is no effective and systematic tool for assessing tradeoffs between direct human benefits and ecosystem services. Land use changes influence ecosystem properties, processes and components, which are the basis for providing services. Five alternative land use scenarios (no conversion of agricultural lands, no urban expansion, agricultural expansion, forestry expansion, and riparian reforestation) were modeled for the Baiyangdian watershed, China, a densely populated, highly modified watershed with serious water shortage and pollution problems. The model InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) is designed to inform decisions about natural resource management, with an aim to align economic forces with conservation. Three ecosystem services (agricultural production, hydropower production, and water quality) were modeled to balance direct benefits and hydrological ecosystem services using InVEST. The results showed that: hydropower production was the greatest in the forestry expansion, but the lowest in agricultural expansion; agricultural production was reduced the most in forestry expansion, while retained the most in riparian reforestation. Riparian reforestation also provided the highest N and P retention and lowest N and P exportation. Riparian reforestation was the optimal land use strategy, since it protected and enhanced the vital ecosystem services without undermining direct human benefits. This research presents an initial analytical framework for integrating direct human benefits and ecosystem services in policy planning and illustrates its application. Although there are important potential tradeoffs between ecosystem services, this systematic planning framework offers a means for identifying valuable synergies between conservation and development.

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“…A study by Frede et al (2002) discusses sustainable planning through understanding multiple functions of the landscape, based on spatial analyses and assessments [59]. The MULBO model offers a framework of tools to integrate assessments of landscape functions into land use decision-making [21]. Ryan et al (2006) discuss opportunities to involve stakeholder participation in land use decision problems for greenway planning applications [60].…”

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“…Overall, very few publications connect the assessment of landscape with land use decision-making. For example, MULBO model framework (Multi-criteria Landscape Assessment and Optimization) is a spatially explicit decision support method on the basis of risk evaluations for landscape function that aims to establish optimal land use patterns as scenarios that are balanced compromises between conflicting goals for the reduction of assessed risks [21].…”

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“…Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSSs) for natural resources management are computer-based tools that tightly integrate decision theory and models with ecological models and GIS analyses and mapping [51]. The information provided by SDSSs gives decision makers increased ability to follow outcomes of interacting variables, improves the reproducibility of decisions, and documents the reason why a particular choice was made [21]. The use of SDSSs in land-use and urban planning is a common approach in Western countries [52], but its application in the spatial planning of the East Mediterranean region is still not valued.…”

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Landscape Risk Assessment Model and Decision Support System for the Protection of the Natural and Cultural Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean Area

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Nicolas

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Abstract:In recent years, the competition of uses for scarce and highly valuable natural resources, and the frequency and severity of natural and technological disasters have increased, and this trend is likely to worsen in the years to come. In the Mediterranean area, especially in its Eastern part, the high human exploitation driven by different economic sectors and interests is resulting in intensive use of the land and its resources. Tourism intensification, rapid growth of urban settlement and related sprawl, movement and displacement of populations, rural abandonment, and adoption of different agricultural techniques are profoundly and rapidly changing the landscape character of the East Mediterranean. In view of the risks to cultural and natural heritage, a Landscape Risk Assessment Model (LRA) and Decision Support System (LDSS) were developed through the MedScapes-ENPI project. This paper reports the experience conducted at the Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management Department (LDEM) in the American University of Beirut (AUB) in developing the two tools, LRA and LDSS. It aims to provide insight into the methodology designed and tested during the length of the project to take into account the protection of landscapes of particular interest as well as the rational planning of all the landscapes with special emphasis on the use of natural resources. The assessment was applied in the study area of each partner country of the ENPI project, allowing for a better understanding of the implications in land-use and conservation decision-making.

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“…The project should provide a unitary and creative response to that set of variables, not all of which may be streamlined, although one overall solution may be preferable. An integrated approach to a landscape is rarely described in the literature, and sector-oriented approaches also predominate the main groups of landscape functions, that is, economic (production-oriented), ecological (regulatory), and social (cultural, aesthetical, ethical, psychological, and recreational) [7]. …”

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Social Evaluation Approaches in Landscape Projects

2014

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Abstract:Landscape is a crucial component of world heritage and, in the last few years, landscape projects have played a vital role in the development of sustainable scenarios. As reported in the European Landscape Convention, landscape means an area, as perceived by people, of which the character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors. Therefore, in landscape planning and assessment, the community is necessarily involved. In order to improve the effectiveness of a project for landscape enhancement, this study suggests strategies for an integrated project, taking into account the numerous, heterogeneous variables involved. A landscape project, therefore, is a complex project that requires structured valuation stages, open to the community dimension. The qualitative, intergenerational, and inclusive characteristics of landscapes suggest that the limits of traditional economic analysis should be exceeded by adopting new assessment methods. With this aim in mind, this paper proposes social evaluation approaches, which operate by combining deliberative processes with total economic and multidimensional approaches. In this paper, we present: (1) a brief overview of the main features and issues concerning landscape projects; (2) strategies for integrated projects in landscape enhancement; and (3) social approaches in landscape assessment that account for complexity and social inclusion. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2014, 6 7907

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MULBO: Model framework for multicriteria landscape assessment and optimisation. A support system for spatial land use decisions

Cited by 57 publications

References 46 publications

Modeling hydrological ecosystem services and tradeoffs: a case study in Baiyangdian watershed, China

Modeling hydrological ecosystem services and tradeoffs: a case study in Baiyangdian watershed, China

Landscape Risk Assessment Model and Decision Support System for the Protection of the Natural and Cultural Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean Area

Social Evaluation Approaches in Landscape Projects

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