Abstract
Sustainable development of land use is determined by changes of the regional supply of Land Use Functions (LUFs) and the demand of future societal land use claims. LUFs are based on the ecosystem services concept, but more adapted to human land use. In this paper, we assessed two peatland-use scenarios towards sustainable development in Northeast Germany in order to understand their impacts on LUFs and land use claims. For this, we extended an analytical framework designed to confront LUFs with land use claims identified in multi-level stakeholder strategies in a participatory manner. The sustainability assessment was performed with peatland-use scenarios “Services for services” and “Market determines usage” that favoured environmental and economic land use claims, respectively. Findings revealed possible trade-offs between land use claims for biomass production and regional value creation as well as for peatlands` carbon and nutrient sink, and habitat functions. The core achievement is an extended sustainability assessment framework integrating land use demands of multi-level stakeholder strategies into participatory impact assessment, in a way that land use claims serve as benchmarks for LUFs. This facilitates the understanding of sustainable land use in both supply and demand perspective, and the normative evaluation of ecosystem services.
Highlights
Land use changes affect sustainable development (SD) through a set of multi-level, trans-sectoral and cross-policy issues (Söderberg and Eckerberg, 2013; Jordan and Lenschow, 2010; Helming et al, 2008)
To assess the impacts of land use changes, manage trade-offs, and develop strategies for sustainable land use, the linkage with the normative concept of SD (Kopfmüller et al, 2001) and integrative and spatially explicit approaches are required (Helming et al, 2011a; Pérez-Soba et al, 2008). These approaches need to interlink endogenous with exogenous factors (Helming et al, 2011a). We demonstrate such an integrative and spatially explicit approach to assess the impacts of land use changes on SD
We concluded that the application of an adapted Framework of Participatory Impact Assessment (FoPIA) approach can confront the changes of the region-specific supply portfolios of Land Use Functions (LUFs) with demand portfolios of land use claims
Summary
Land use changes affect sustainable development (SD) through a set of multi-level, trans-sectoral and cross-policy issues (Söderberg and Eckerberg, 2013; Jordan and Lenschow, 2010; Helming et al, 2008). To assess the impacts of land use changes, manage trade-offs, and develop strategies for sustainable land use, the linkage with the normative concept of SD (Kopfmüller et al, 2001) and integrative and spatially explicit approaches are required (Helming et al, 2011a; Pérez-Soba et al, 2008). These approaches need to interlink endogenous (biogeophysical, sociocultural and socio-economic conditions) with exogenous (normative values and societal land use demands) factors (Helming et al, 2011a).
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