Evaluating social perceptions of ecosystem services, biodiversity, and land management: Trade-offs, synergies and implications for landscape planning and management

Azadeh Karimi, Hossein Yazdandad and Nora Fagerholm

Ecosystem Services, 2020, vol. 45, issue C

Abstract: Previous studies have recognized the importance of social dimensions of ecosystem services and their incorporation into planning processes. However, understanding how people’s management preferences relate to their perceptions of ecosystem services and biodiversity still needs further exploration in different geographical contexts. We aimed to examine spatial patterns and relationships between perceived ecosystem services, biodiversity and management preferences to illuminate possible synergies and trade-offs between them, and their relationships to protected areas. Empirical data on perceptions of eleven ecosystem services, biodiversity, and seven management preferences were collected using a paper-based participatory mapping technique in a case study in Khorasan Razavi, Iran.

Keywords: Ecosystem services; Landscape management; Social conflict; Participatory mapping; Protected areas; Hotspot analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101188

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