The iCASS Platform: Nine principles for landscape conservation design

Campellone, Robert M.; Chouinard, Kristina M.; Fisichelli, Nicholas A.; Gallo, John; Lujan, Joseph R.; McCormick, Ronald J.; Miewald, Thomas; Murry, Brent A.; Pierce, D. John; Shively, Daniel R.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.04.008

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“…Our case study shows how both aims-bioenergy production and protection of cultural landscapes-can potentially be combined by implementing local biomass heating plants. The cultural values of the landscape that are shared by many local actors are a powerful social capital and a good starting point to jointly create a shared vision for cultural landscape protection [1,48]. f) Our study shows that relational trust, procedural fairness, and justice play a role in proponents' ("type A" farmers') acceptability decisions.…”

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“…As we have shown, such integration builds on mutable acceptability decisions [41], reflexive and iterative learning processes (e.g. [44,51,52]), innovation system thinking with feedback loops [44,48], and adaptive landscape design [48]. Reflecting results is always crucial because acceptability studies are often only a piece of the puzzle of a broader picture.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The importance of these issues is revealed in a Scottish case study about landscape maintenance for grasslands with high nature values: The farmers' motivation was limited to cooperating in maintenance measures in case the relation between farmers and coordinators (conservationists is this case) was weak or unbalanced [4]. Regular contact; joint meetings on values, aims, conceptions, and solutions; and having a demonstration plant may help build trust [48]. Demonstration plants also foster technology development on a niche level and mutual and reflexive learning.…”

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Acceptability of innovative biomass heating plants in a German case study—a contribution to cultural landscape management and local energy supply

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Siebert

Heitepriem³

2019

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background To prevent negative effects on the cultural landscape through land abandonment or agricultural intensification, innovative solutions towards more sustainable land use are required. Local bioenergy systems using agricultural co-products are perceived as one solution to threatened cultural landscapes with small-scale meadows. The aim of this paper is to analyse the acceptability of biomass heating plants in the Spreewald region (Germany) and their contribution to cultural landscape management. Methods We asked 17 farmers about the likelihood that they would install a biomass plant on their farms and about their reasons for accepting or rejecting it. A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis was applied. Results The analysis showed that acceptance is relatively low. We identified three types of farmers: proponents and potential adopters, ethically concerned opponents, and open-minded refusers. Biomass plants were likely to be accepted if farmers stated an ethical acceptance of and interest in technology, a need for a new heating system, the availability of sufficient feedstock, and a perceived unproblematic readiness of technology—all these factors had to exist in combination. On the other hand, farmers rejected a biomass plant if one of the following factors existed: ethical concerns about “burning hay”, satisfaction with their current oven, low availability of feedstock, or a perceived low readiness of technology. Other factors were the existence of procedural justice, trust in coordinating actors, and a demonstration plant. Conclusions The discussion shows that the specific results have to be contextualised within the innovation process for sustainable landscape management. This may be achieved by integrating the acceptability study into an adaptive landscape design. This relies on mutable acceptability decisions, reflexive learning processes, and iterative feedback loops in innovation processes. Our paper advances knowledge about (1) how to prevent land abandonment and simultaneously promote regional energy and (2) the acceptability in the field of land use and landscape management. Keywords Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA); Bioenergy; Energy transitions; Co-products; Biomass conversion; Gasification; Land abandonment; Wetlands; Integrative landscape design

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confidence: 99%

Section: Discussion and Further Implicationsmentioning

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Acceptability of innovative biomass heating plants in a German case study—a contribution to cultural landscape management and local energy supply

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2019

Energ Sustain Soc

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“…Drawing conclusions from our results for a successful collaboration with farmers in research projects about biodiversity conservation at the landscape scale, we recommend to establish landscape labs that enable: (1) actively involving farmers with their knowledge, expertise, and concerns in a co-design process; (2) to discuss mental models and set up joint transformation pathways; (3) to co-develop locally suitable measures that lead to ecologically effective and broadly accepted solutions; (4) to co-experiment the practicability of measures and economically and ecologically assess them at local scale (Meynard et al 2012;Campellone et al 2018). On the one hand, in co-design processes at the landscape level it is often challenging to bring together diverging interests, values, and farming systems.…”

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“…should be considered when developing solutions. Generally, the involvement of local actors is needed to legitimize decisions (Reed et al 2009) and also to generate place-based, applicable, and acceptable solutions (Lange et al 2016;Zscheischler et al 2017;Campellone et al 2018).…”

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How farmers think about insects: perceptions of biodiversity, biodiversity loss and attitudes towards insect-friendly farming practices

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An alarming decrease of insects in number and variety calls for measures of protection and promotion, since insects are crucial for the functioning of ecosystems and provide multiple ecosystem services. Agricultural landscapes can provide vast insect habitats if they are managed accordingly. However, little is known about farmers’ problem awareness and attitudes toward insect biodiversity loss, related farming practises, or alternative acceptable insect-friendly solutions. To fill these research gaps, this paper aimed to reveal farmers’ perceptions and attitudes regarding these aspects in two German case studies. We conducted 23 semi-structured interviews with farmers in 2019 and qualitatively analysed them using semantic web analysis. Farmers mostly reported awareness of insects’ ecosystem services and disservices related to agricultural production rather than mentioning the holistic ecological importance of insects. About half of the farmers confirmed insect loss based on their own observations, whereas a similar number doubted there had been a decrease of insects. Most farmers are open-minded towards insect-friendly measures if financially compensated. The farmers also mentioned a joint societal responsibility for insects, economic pressure on farmers to use pesticides due to global market prices, and unbalanced agricultural policies. This study revealed in-depth insights into farmers’ thinking about insects and how farmers contextualise arguments. Our results identified overlaps in farmers’ mental models, which paves the way for co-designing insect-friendly farming practices in landscape labs. Local transformation efforts can also demonstrate new pathways for a shift on the higher levels.

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Demonstrating a decision support process for landscape conservation design

Bonnot,

Jones‐Farrand,

Muenks

et al. 2024

Wildlife Society Bulletin

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Despite the recent increase in landscape conservation and the design processes agencies are undertaking, there remains an implementation gap due to an inability to evaluate general strategies and account for uncertainties faced by managers. We demonstrated how a decision support process (DSP), recently developed to inform landscape conservation design, can address uncertainties and complexities inherent in landscape conservation to facilitate long‐term, large‐scale conservation planning. We applied the DSP to landscape conservation efforts within conservation opportunity areas (COA) of states in the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks region. We engaged state planners within the region to identify important landscape conservation uncertainties they face in planning. We developed, simulated, and modeled the impacts of conservation addressing 3 uncertainties identified by state wildlife managers and evaluated the impacts by examining the responses of state and local populations of 2 bird species of conservation concern, prairie warbler (Setophaga discolor) and wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina). The responses of prairie warbler populations to conservation strategies indicated that both approaches of protecting quality habitat from land‐use change and restoring and enhancing lower quality and nonhabitat improved their viability at regional, statewide, and COA scales. However, we noted that the relative effectiveness of strategies varied among states in ways that suggest a state's process for delineating COAs and what threats they face could influence which conservation approach to consider. Our findings highlight the need for regional coordination and the use of decision‐support processes to guide effective conservation at landscape scales.

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The iCASS Platform: Nine principles for landscape conservation design

Cited by 23 publications

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Acceptability of innovative biomass heating plants in a German case study—a contribution to cultural landscape management and local energy supply

Acceptability of innovative biomass heating plants in a German case study—a contribution to cultural landscape management and local energy supply

How farmers think about insects: perceptions of biodiversity, biodiversity loss and attitudes towards insect-friendly farming practices

Demonstrating a decision support process for landscape conservation design

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