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Periphery and Integrated Planning: Coping with Rural and Touristic Challenges a...
Mehnen, Nora; Mose, Inge; Schaal, Peter; Sijtsma, Frans; Muñoz-Rojas, José; Fedoriak, Mariia; Angelstam, PerRural landscapes face multiple challenges, but they can be attractive for developing nature-based tourism. Encouraging place-based participatory governance in local communities represents a relevant transdisciplinary landscape approach. In this study, we map (1) rural and touristic challenges and (2) coping strategies in peripheral–rural municipalities, and we (3) discuss the need for integration of local and r...
Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan...
Angelstam, Per; Fedoriak, Mariia; Cruz, Fátima; Muñoz-Rojas, José; Yalemynets, Taras; Manton, Michael; Washbourne, Carla-Leanne; Dobrynin, DenisAchieving sustainable development as an inclusive societal process in rural landscapes, and sustainability in terms of functional green infrastructures for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services, are wicked challenges. Competing claims from various sectors call for evidence-based adaptive collaborative governance. Leveraging such approaches requires maintenance of several forms of social interactions ...
Maintaining natural and traditional cultural green infrastructures across Europ...
Angelstam, Per; Manton, Michael; Yalmelynets, Taras; Fedoriak, Mariia; Albulescu, Andra-Cosmina; Bravo, Felipe; Cruz, Fátima; Jaroscewicz, BogdanContext Maintaining functional green infrastruc-tures (GIs) require evidence-based knowledge about historic and current states and trends of representative land cover types. Objectives We address: (1) the long-term loss and transformation of potential natural forest vegetation; (2) the effects of site productivity on permanent forest loss and emergence of traditional cultural landscapes; (3) the current managem...
Landscape concepts and approaches foster learning about ecosystem services
Angelstam, Per; Muñoz-Rojas, José; Pinto-Correia, TeresaThe ecosystem services framework aims to encourage ecological sustainability through political-economic decisions. However, it fails to capture the complexity of social–ecological interactions. This is an obstacle for coping with current grand challenges through integrative knowledge production and collaborative learning. Landscape concepts and approaches, which emphasize human–environment interactions, governa...
Multi-scale mapping of cultural ecosystem services in a socio-ecological landsc...
Sijtsma, Frans; Mehnen, Nora; Angelstam, Per; Muñoz-Rojas, JoséContext The governance of international natural World Heritage sites is extremely challenging. In the search for effective multilevel governance there is a need to identify the community of people which have place attachment to the areas, i.e. ‘the community of fans’ at local to international levels. Objectives Focusing on the landscape of the international Wadden Sea coastal area in the Netherlands, Germany an...
LTSER platforms as a place-based transdisciplinary research infrastructure: lea...
Angelstam, Per; Manton, Michael; Elbakidze, Marine; Sijtsma, Frans; Adamescu, Mihai Cristian; Avni, Noa; Beja, Pedro; Bezak, Peter; Zyablikova, IrynaNatural capital is an essential foundation for human well-being (De Groot et al. 2010). The ecosystem services framework was developed with the aim to improve inclusion of natural capital into political and economic decision making across governance levels (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). However, fragmented policy, governance and land ownership are obstacles for multifunctional land management and spati...