Landscape Conservation Planning to Sustain Ecosystem Services under Climate Change

Yu-Pin Lin, Chi-Ju Chen, Wan-Yu Lien, Wen-Hao Chang, Joy R. Petway and Li-Chi Chiang
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Yu-Pin Lin: Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Chi-Ju Chen: Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Wan-Yu Lien: Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Wen-Hao Chang: Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Joy R. Petway: Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Li-Chi Chiang: Department of Civil and Disaster Prevention Engineering, National United University, Taipei 36003, Taiwan

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-18

Abstract: Sustainable conservation aims to ensure the sustained conservation of landscape multi-functionality which in turn requires ensuring ecosystem service (ES) and habitat quality (HQ) sustainability with inclusive landscape-scale conservation planning. This study proposes a landscape conservation planning (LCP) framework for landscape-scale ES-HQ conservation and sustainability. Spatially explicit hotspots for five ESs and HQs are identified via InVEST and LISA software. Spatiotemporal changes in ES-HQ hotspots, in terms of stability and resilience, are delineated. The Zonation technique is applied to prioritize areas for conservation based on ES-HQ hotspot stability and resilience maps. High priority conservation areas are identified and are used as reserve area inputs for land use modeling with CLUE-S software to simulate future land use change under climate change scenarios. This study reports that varied rainfall and climate are major driving factors of ES-HQ sustainability disturbance in the study area. Furthermore, our proposed conservation Strategy 2 demonstrates that a larger extent of landscape multi-functionality can be sustained when the existing conservation area includes the total area of identified ES-HQ resilient hotspots. This study effectively identifies the stability and resiliency of ES-HQ hotspot areas affected by disturbances for high priority landscape conservation requirements to ensure ES-HQ sustainability and landscape multi-functionality in the study area.

Keywords: landscape; sustainable planning; systematic conservation; resilience; disturbances; ecosystem services; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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