Landscape services as a bridge between landscape ecology and sustainable development |
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Authors: | Jolande W Termorshuizen Paul Opdam |
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Institution: | (1) Alterra, Landscape Centre, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands;(2) Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Landscape ecology is in a position to become the scientific basis for sustainable landscape development. When spatial planning
policy is decentralised, local actors need to collaborate to decide on the changes that have to be made in the landscape to
better accommodate their perceptions of value. This paper addresses two prerequisites that landscape ecological science has
to meet for it to be effective in producing appropriate knowledge for such bottom-up landscape-development processes—it must
include a valuation component, and it must be suitable for use in collaborative decision-making on a local scale. We argue
that landscape ecological research needs to focus more on these issues and propose the concept of landscape services as a
unifying common ground where scientists from various disciplines are encouraged to cooperate in producing a common knowledge
base that can be integrated into multifunctional, actor-led landscape development. We elaborate this concept into a knowledge
framework, the structure–function–value chain, and expand the current pattern–process paradigm in landscape ecology with value
in this way. Subsequently, we analyse how the framework could be applied and facilitate interdisciplinary research that is
applicable in transdisciplinary landscape-development processes. |
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