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Community stakeholders' knowledge in landscape assessments - Mapping indicators for landscape services
Tekijät: Fagerholm N, Käyhkö N, Ndumbaro F, Khamis M
Kustantaja: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Julkaisuvuosi: 2012
Journal: Ecological Indicators
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
Lehden akronyymi: ECOL INDIC
Vuosikerta: 18
Aloitussivu: 421
Lopetussivu: 433
Sivujen määrä: 13
ISSN: 1470-160X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.12.004
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/3214686
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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