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Community stakeholders' knowledge in landscape assessments - Mapping indicators for landscape services
Authors: Fagerholm N, Käyhkö N, Ndumbaro F, Khamis M
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Publication year: 2012
Journal: Ecological Indicators
Journal name in source: ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
Journal acronym: ECOL INDIC
Volume: 18
First page : 421
Last page: 433
Number of pages: 13
ISSN: 1470-160X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.12.004
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The results show that community involvement and participatory mapping enhance the assessment of landscape services. These benefits from nature demonstrate spatial clustering and co-existence, but simultaneously also a tendency for spatial dispersion, and suggest that there is far more heterogeneity and sensitivity in the ways the benefits are distributed in relation to actual land resources. Many material landscape service indicators are individually based and spatially scattered in the landscape. However, the well-being of communities is also dependent on the non-material services, pointing out shared places of social interaction and cultural traditions. Both material and non-material services are preferred closest to settlements where the highest intensity, richness and diversity are found. Based on the results, the paper discusses the role of local stakeholders as experts in landscape service assessments and implications for local level management processes. It can be pointed out that the integration of participatory mapping methods in landscape service assessments is crucial for true collaborative, bottom-up landscape management. It is also necessary in order to capture the non-utilitarian value of landscapes and sensitivity to cultural landscape services, which many expert evaluations of landscape or ecosystem services fail to do justice. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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