A social-ecological approach to support equitable land use decision-making
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In: Ambio, Vol. 53, No. 12, 12.2024, p. 1752-1767.
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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 - 2024/12
Y1 - 2024/12
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
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U2 - 10.1007/s13280-024-02056-x
DO - 10.1007/s13280-024-02056-x
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 39093372
AN - SCOPUS:85200368067
VL - 53
SP - 1752
EP - 1767
JO - Ambio
JF - Ambio
SN - 0044-7447
IS - 12
ER -