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Title A social-ecological approach to support equitable land use decision-making
Full text https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/a-social-ecological-approach-to-support-equitable-land-use-decisi
Date 2024
Author(s) Brück, Maria; Benra, Felipe; Duguma, Dula Wakassa; Fischer, Joern; Jiren, Tolera Senbeto; Law, Elizabeth A.; Pacheco-Romero, Manuel; Schultner, Jannik; Abson, David J.
Abstract 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.
Subject(s) Disaggregation; Ecosystem services; Equity; Land use change; Scenario planning; Social-ecological systems
Language en
Relation https://edepot.wur.nl/673072
Type of publication Article/Letter to editor
Format application/pdf
Source Ambio (2024); ISSN: 0044-7447
Rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Wageningen University & Research
Identifier 10.1007/s13280-024-02056-x
Repository Wageningen - University of Wageningen
Added to C-A: 2024-09-30;09:49:53