Mapping Ecosystem Services Potential in Lithuania
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Lithuania |
Expert-based-ranking approach combined with the matrix method and spatial analysis, to determine potential ES through spatial patterns and relationships between multiple ES. |
The study concluded that forest areas had the highest potential for ES delivery, while the lowest potential was in urban areas. It also reinforced that the approach has a great capacity to cover large geographic areas and is effective for cases where environmental and social data are scarce. |
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A Performance-Based Planning Approach Integrating Supply and Demand
of Urban Ecosystem Services
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Trento, Italia |
Selection of ES based on public documents with municipal officials, scoring system for developing indicators on the supply and demand maps, and evaluation of the balance between positive and negative impacts on ES. |
Ecosystem service assessments can support the design of public policy instruments, helping to shed light on the lack of knowledge about the role of ES in decision-making processes. The approach is applicable and transferable to other contexts, due to its flexibility. |
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Quantifying and Mapping Ecosystem Service Use Across Stakeholder Groups: Implications for Conservation with Priorities for Cultural Values
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British Columbia, Canada |
Publicizing the survey in advance to encourage community participation. Conducting interviews with drawing of polygons representing participants’ use of ES. An overlay analysis of the maps to determine the ES provision: cultural, provision and groups combined. |
Collaborative mapping has been shown to be a suitable tool for the spatial location of cultural and provisioning ES in varied stakeholder groups. The frequency of recognition of ES can determine regional conservation priorities. |
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Towards A National Set of Ecosystem Service Indicators: Insights from Germany
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Germany |
Presented and discussed the preliminary results of the approach adopted to define indicators for the implementation of the Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) - Objective 2 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy. |
Proper land use planning can enhance ES provision. Specific data on ES is still needed to inform public policy. |
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Focusing Conservation Efforts on Ecosystem Service Supply May Increase Vulnerability of Socio- Ecological Systems
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Argentina and Chile |
Case studies conducted in Argentina and Chile, to compare conservation priorities according to ES supply maps versus socio-ecological vulnerability maps, using an improved version of the ECOSER protocol - GIS mapping tool. |
Conservation prioritization should consider not only current ES, but their interactions and temporal changes. Strong spatial decoupling between the supply of ES, socio-ecological vulnerability and the loss of ecosystem services was noted. |
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Integrating Deliberative Monetary Valuation, Systems Modelling and Participatory Mapping to Assess Shared Values of Ecosystem Services
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River Forth Estuary, Scotland |
Integration between conceptual systems modeling, participatory mapping, and deliberative monetary evaluation to assess shared values of ES. |
Only the monetary valuation would lead to insufficient recognition of ES, different from the values expressed through the participatory mapping, so the participatory mapping brings improvement to the monetary valuation of ES. |
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Perception of Ecosystem Services of Urban Green Areas in Curitiba/PR
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Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil |
Qualitative research with environmental experts, using the Ecosystem Services Review - ESR tool, to identify the most important ES in the context of socioeconomic well-being generation. |
The regulation of the local climate and the maintenance of air quality was highlighted as the most important ES provided by the green areas in Curitiba. It was concluded that the ES analyzed, especially the most relevant ones, should be carefully observed and incorporated in the management of the urban green areas, besides pointing out which areas are considered as not being able to be replaced, in case of the suppression of the green areas. |
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Mapping and Valuation of Ecosystem Goods and Services in
in the Brazilian Semi-arid
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Taperoá River Basin, Paraíba |
Participatory mapping with the community, managers, and experts to identify ecosystem goods and services by assigning a level of importance (social valuation) for each good or service. The mapping was interpolated in ArcGis software for the preparation of digital maps. |
Despite the degradation process that the stretch of the Taperoá River basin faces, it was possible to identify a high number of ecosystem goods and services, except in the urban area and to the north of the dam, where agriculture and cattle breeding predominate and are among the most cited and valued by the stakeholders, despite the relationship with the environmental degradation of the region due to the practice of traditional agriculture and cattle breeding. |
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