Ecosystem services for connecting actors – lessons from a symposium

• Authors: Paul Opdam , Christian Albert , Christine Fürst , Adrienne Grêt-Regamey , Janina Kleemann , Dawn Parker , Daniele La Rosa , Katja Schmidt , Grace B. Villamor , Ariane Walz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is a communication from the corresponding symposium at the Global Land Project Open Science Meeting, Berlin, March 2014. We explored the assumption that the ecosystem services-(ES) concept has the potential to support communication and collaboration between actors in land use planning. If true, the concept could facilitate collaborative planning processes. We analyse how to evolve a planning context in which governance networks at the local landscape level gain importance in decision making, while the central government delegates power. From case studies presented during the symposium we learned that the ES-concept has been explored for application in local land use planning around the world. However, whether ES are recognized as a useful planning concept depends on individual actor preferences and cultural and contextual factors, such as the actual nature-human relationship and gender differences. Also, successful application requires the support of novel assessment, design and visualization tools, which are designed to foster collaboration and social learning. The potential of the concept to contribute to collaborative relationships needs further investigation.

Keywords

EN

Local land use planning; community-basedlearning; governance networks; market mechanism; individual and cultural variation; perception of value

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

2014-05-08

accepted

2015-02-02

online

2015-06-01

Contributors

author

Paul Opdam

• Wageningen University
  Department of Land Use Planning, Alterra, Nature and Society
  Group, Wageningen, The Netherlands

author

Christian Albert

• Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz
  Universität Hannover, Department Environmental Politics, Helmholtz
  Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

author

Christine Fürst

• Center for Development Research (ZEF), Department
  of Ecology and Natural Resources Management, University of Bonn,
  Bonn, Germany

author

Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

• ETH Zürich, Planning of Landscape and Urban
  Systems (PLUS), Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung
  (IRL), Zürich, Switzerland

author

Janina Kleemann

• Center for Development Research (ZEF), Department
  of Ecology and Natural Resources Management, University of
  Bonn, Bonn, Germany

author

Dawn Parker

• School of Planning, University of Waterloo,
  Waterloo, Canada

author

Daniele La Rosa

• University of Catania, Department of Architecture,
  Catania, Italy

author

Katja Schmidt

• Universität Potsdam, Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften,
  Potsdam-Golm, Germany

author

Grace B. Villamor

• Center for Development Research (ZEF), Department
  of Ecology and Natural Resources Management, University of
  Bonn, Germany

author

Ariane Walz

• Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam
  University, Potsdam, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/cass-2015-0001