Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity
Margot Neyret
(1)
,
Sophie Peter
(1)
,
Gaëtane Le Provost
(1, 2)
,
Steffen Boch
(3)
,
Andrea Larissa Boesing
(1)
,
James Bullock
(4)
,
Norbert Hölzel
(5)
,
Valentin Klaus
(6)
,
Till Kleinebecker
(7)
,
Jochen Krauss
(8)
,
Jörg Müller
(8)
,
Sandra Müller
(9)
,
Christian Ammer
(10)
,
François Buscot
(11, 12)
,
Martin Ehbrecht
(10)
,
Markus Fischer
(13)
,
Kezia Goldmann
(11)
,
Kirsten Jung
(14)
,
Marion Mehring
(1)
,
Thomas Müller
(1)
,
Swen Renner
(15)
,
Peter Schall
(10)
,
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
(9)
,
Catrin Westphal
(10)
,
Tesfaye Wubet
(12)
,
Peter Manning
(1)
1
SBiK-F -
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
2 UMR SAVE - Santé et agroécologie du vignoble
3 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
4 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
5 WWU - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster
6 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
7 JLU - Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen = Justus Liebig University
8 JMU - Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg = University of Würzburg
9 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg = University of Freiburg
10 Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
11 UFZ - Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
12 iDiv - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
13 UNIBE - Universität Bern = University of Bern = Université de Berne
14 Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics,
15 NHM - Natural History Museum [Vienna]
2 UMR SAVE - Santé et agroécologie du vignoble
3 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
4 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
5 WWU - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster
6 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
7 JLU - Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen = Justus Liebig University
8 JMU - Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg = University of Würzburg
9 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg = University of Freiburg
10 Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
11 UFZ - Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
12 iDiv - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
13 UNIBE - Universität Bern = University of Bern = Université de Berne
14 Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics,
15 NHM - Natural History Museum [Vienna]
Margot Neyret
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Gaëtane Le Provost
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Steffen Boch
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James Bullock
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Norbert Hölzel
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Valentin Klaus
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Till Kleinebecker
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Jörg Müller
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Sandra Müller
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François Buscot
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Markus Fischer
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Kezia Goldmann
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Kirsten Jung
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Thomas Müller
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Peter Schall
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Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
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Catrin Westphal
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Peter Manning
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Abstract
Managing landscapes sustainably is challenging given the competing interests of different stakeholder groups. By combining broad ecological data with information on the ecosystem service priorities of multiple stakeholder groups, this study provides a tool to quantify the social impact of land-use changes.
Increasing pressure on land resources necessitates landscape management strategies that simultaneously deliver multiple benefits to numerous stakeholder groups with competing interests. Accordingly, we developed an approach that combines ecological data on all types of ecosystem services with information describing the ecosystem service priorities of multiple stakeholder groups. We identified landscape scenarios that maximize the overall ecosystem service supply relative to demand (multifunctionality) for the whole stakeholder community, while maintaining equitable distribution of ecosystem benefits across groups. For rural Germany, we show that the current landscape composition is close to optimal, and that most scenarios that maximize one or a few services increase inequities. This indicates that most major land-use changes proposed for Europe (for example, large-scale tree planting or agricultural intensification) could lead to social conflicts and reduced multifunctionality. However, moderate gains in multifunctionality (4%) and equity (1%) can be achieved by expanding and diversifying forests and de-intensifying grasslands. More broadly, our approach provides a tool for quantifying the social impact of land-use changes and could be applied widely to identify sustainable land-use transformations.