Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity

Neyret, Margot; Peter, Sophie; Le Provost, Gaëtane; Boch, Steffen; Boesing, Andrea Larissa; Bullock, James M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0529-4020; Hölzel, Norbert; Klaus, Valentin H.; Kleinebecker, Till; Krauss, Jochen; Müller, Jörg; Müller, Sandra; Ammer, Christian; Buscot, François; Ehbrecht, Martin; Fischer, Markus; Goldmann, Kezia; Jung, Kirsten; Mehring, Marion; Müller, Thomas; Renner, Swen C.; Schall, Peter; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Westphal, Catrin; Wubet, Tesfaye; Manning, Peter. 2023 Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity. Nature Sustainability, 6. 391-403. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01045-w

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01045-w

Abstract/Summary

Increasing pressure on land resources necessitates landscape management strategies that simultaneously deliver multiple benefits to numerous stakeholder groups with competing interests. Accordingly, we developed an approach that combines ecological data on all types of ecosystem services with information describing the ecosystem service priorities of multiple stakeholder groups. We identified landscape scenarios that maximize the overall ecosystem service supply relative to demand (multifunctionality) for the whole stakeholder community, while maintaining equitable distribution of ecosystem benefits across groups. For rural Germany, we show that the current landscape composition is close to optimal, and that most scenarios that maximize one or a few services increase inequities. This indicates that most major land-use changes proposed for Europe (for example, large-scale tree planting or agricultural intensification) could lead to social conflicts and reduced multifunctionality. However, moderate gains in multifunctionality (4%) and equity (1%) can be achieved by expanding and diversifying forests and de-intensifying grasslands. More broadly, our approach provides a tool for quantifying the social impact of land-use changes and could be applied widely to identify sustainable land-use transformations.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01045-w
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Biodiversity (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	2398-9629
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Additional Keywords:	ecological modelling, ecosystem services, environmental social sciences, sustainability
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
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Date made live:	02 Nov 2023 12:09 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/535353

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01045-w

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Biodiversity (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

2398-9629

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Publisher link (see Related URLs) provides a read-only full-text copy of the published paper.

Additional Keywords:

ecological modelling, ecosystem services, environmental social sciences, sustainability