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Ecosystems services, decision support systems and participative approach in planning: experiences and lessons learned in the Alpine Region
The ecosystem services (ESs) concept is particularly helpful when dealing with the relationship that links human and natural environment systems. It refers, in fact, to the entire sphere of benefits (goods and services) that human societies obtain, directly or indirectly, from ecosystems functions, and shows how deeply human well-being depends on healthy ecosystems. Alpine landscapes supply numerous goods and services useful for both people living there and in surrounding areas. A sustainable development of these territories requires that economic and ecological issues are carefully taken into account and balanced. To this aim, the consideration of ESs is a tool showing great possibilities, provided that it is applied to the right scale of analysis. The regional watershed scale makes it possible to address landscape management and planning issues with a sound and realistic approach. Actually at this level, local communities - people and institutions - may show a strong proactive approach to the management of natural resources. In this context, in fact, management is heavily linked to governance mechanisms, being the focus of political debate and economic activity. Whatever the approach chosen for the ESs’ assessment and valuation, either economic or non-economic, we stress the importance of people’s participation. This is actually an important prerequisite in order to supply credible and well structured information to the decision makers. In our work we describe a methodological approach, applied in different study areas and based on the realisation and implementation of a Decision Support System for eliciting, evaluating in a spatially explicit form and balancing Ess. The work describes the experiences carried out in the development and the application of DSS and participation methods in planning in real cases in the frame of different national (Biomasfor) and European (recharge.green see Recharge.green project site: http://www.recharge-green.eu/) research projects. The different projects offered the ...
Ecosystems services, decision support systems and participative approach in planning: experiences and lessons learned in the Alpine Region
The ecosystem services (ESs) concept is particularly helpful when dealing with the relationship that links human and natural environment systems. It refers, in fact, to the entire sphere of benefits (goods and services) that human societies obtain, directly or indirectly, from ecosystems functions, and shows how deeply human well-being depends on healthy ecosystems. Alpine landscapes supply numerous goods and services useful for both people living there and in surrounding areas. A sustainable development of these territories requires that economic and ecological issues are carefully taken into account and balanced. To this aim, the consideration of ESs is a tool showing great possibilities, provided that it is applied to the right scale of analysis. The regional watershed scale makes it possible to address landscape management and planning issues with a sound and realistic approach. Actually at this level, local communities - people and institutions - may show a strong proactive approach to the management of natural resources. In this context, in fact, management is heavily linked to governance mechanisms, being the focus of political debate and economic activity. Whatever the approach chosen for the ESs’ assessment and valuation, either economic or non-economic, we stress the importance of people’s participation. This is actually an important prerequisite in order to supply credible and well structured information to the decision makers. In our work we describe a methodological approach, applied in different study areas and based on the realisation and implementation of a Decision Support System for eliciting, evaluating in a spatially explicit form and balancing Ess. The work describes the experiences carried out in the development and the application of DSS and participation methods in planning in real cases in the frame of different national (Biomasfor) and European (recharge.green see Recharge.green project site: http://www.recharge-green.eu/) research projects. The different projects offered the ...
Ecosystems services, decision support systems and participative approach in planning: experiences and lessons learned in the Alpine Region
Marco Ciolli (author) / Giulia Garegnani (author) / Francesco Geri (author) / Pietro Zambelli (author) / Maria Giulia Cantiani (author) / Gianluca Grilli (author) / Alessandro Paletto (author) / Sandro Sacchelli (author) / Jessica Balest (author) / Giorgio Curetti (author)
2017-01-01
Miscellaneous
Electronic Resource
English
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