TY - JOUR

T1 - A social-ecological approach to support equitable land use decision-making

AU - Brück, Maria

AU - Benra, Felipe

AU - Duguma, Dula Wakassa

AU - Fischer, Joern

AU - Jiren, Tolera Senbeto

AU - Law, Elizabeth A.

AU - Pacheco-Romero, Manuel

AU - Schultner, Jannik

AU - Abson, David J.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.

PY - 2024/8/2

Y1 - 2024/8/2

N2 - Human-driven land use change can result in unequitable outcomes in the provision and appropriation of ecosystem services (ES). To better address equity-related effects of land use change in decision-making, analyses of land use and ES changes under different land use management alternatives should incorporate ecological and social information and take a disaggregated approach to ES analysis. Because such approaches are still scarce in the literature, we present a generalized social-ecological approach to support equitable land use decision-making (in terms of process and outcomes) and an example of its application to a case study in southwestern Ethiopia. We propose a six-step approach that combines scenario planning with equity-focused, disaggregated analyses of ES. Its application in our study area made equity-related effects of land use change explicit through the recognition of different beneficiary groups, value types, and spatial locations. We recommend the application of our approach in other contexts, especially in the Global South.

AB - Human-driven land use change can result in unequitable outcomes in the provision and appropriation of ecosystem services (ES). To better address equity-related effects of land use change in decision-making, analyses of land use and ES changes under different land use management alternatives should incorporate ecological and social information and take a disaggregated approach to ES analysis. Because such approaches are still scarce in the literature, we present a generalized social-ecological approach to support equitable land use decision-making (in terms of process and outcomes) and an example of its application to a case study in southwestern Ethiopia. We propose a six-step approach that combines scenario planning with equity-focused, disaggregated analyses of ES. Its application in our study area made equity-related effects of land use change explicit through the recognition of different beneficiary groups, value types, and spatial locations. We recommend the application of our approach in other contexts, especially in the Global South.

KW - Disaggregation

KW - Ecosystem services

KW - Equity

KW - Land use change

KW - Scenario planning

KW - Social-ecological systems

KW - Sustainability Governance

KW - Environmental planning

KW - Environmental Governance

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85200368067&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s13280-024-02056-x

DO - 10.1007/s13280-024-02056-x

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85200368067

JO - Ambio

JF - Ambio

SN - 0044-7447

ER -