Participatory Mapping of Demand for Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Carmen Schwartz, Mostafa Shaaban, Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura and Annette Piorr
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Carmen Schwartz: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF e.V.), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Mostafa Shaaban: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF e.V.), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF e.V.), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Annette Piorr: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF e.V.), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany

Agriculture, 2021, vol. 11, issue 12, 1-20

Abstract: Agricultural land use systems have been optimized for producing provisioning ecosystem services (ES) in the past few decades, often at the expense of regulating and cultural services. Research has focused mainly on the supply side of ES and related trade-offs, but the demand side for regulatory services remains largely neglected. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the usefulness of participatory geographic information system (PGIS) methods for demand assessment in larger rural and agrarian contexts by identifying spatially explicit demand patterns for ES, thereby enlarging the body of participatory approaches to ES-based land use management. Accordingly, we map, assess, and statistically and spatially analyze different demands for five ES by different stakeholder groups in agricultural landscapes in three case studies. The results are presented in a stakeholder workshop and prerequisites for collaborative ES management are discussed. Our results show that poor correlation exists between stakeholder groups and demands for ES; however, arable land constitutes the highest share of the mapped area of demands for the five ES. These results have been validated by both the survey and the stakeholder workshop. Our study concludes that PGIS represents a useful tool to link demand assessments and landscape management systematically, especially for decision support systems.

Keywords: participatory mapping; ecosystem services; demand; PGIS; agricultural landscapes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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