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Finisdore J, Lamothe KA, Rhodes CR, Obst C, Booth P, Haines-Young R, Russell M, Houdet JR, Maynard S, Wielgus J, Rowcroft P. Letter to the editor: Using classification systems to integrate ecosystem services with decision making tools. Ecosyst Serv 2021; 48:10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101257. [PMID: 33868912 PMCID: PMC8048124 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Burkhard B, Maes J, Potschin-Young M, Santos-Martín F, Geneletti D, Stoev P, Kopperoinen L, Adamescu C, Adem Esmail B, Arany I, Arnell A, Balzan M, Barton DN, van Beukering P, Bicking S, Borges P, Borisova B, Braat L, M Brander L, Bratanova-Doncheva S, Broekx S, Brown C, Cazacu C, Crossman N, Czúcz B, Daněk J, Groot RD, Depellegrin D, Dimopoulos P, Elvinger N, Erhard M, Fagerholm N, Frélichová J, Grêt-Regamey A, Grudova M, Haines-Young R, Inghe O, Kallay T, Kirin T, Klug H, Kokkoris I, Konovska I, Kruse M, Kuzmova I, Lange M, Liekens I, Lotan A, Lowicki D, Luque S, Marta-Pedroso C, Mizgajski A, Mononen L, Mulder S, Müller F, Nedkov S, Nikolova M, Östergård H, Penev L, Pereira P, Pitkänen K, Plieninger T, Rabe SE, Reichel S, Roche P, Rusch G, Ruskule A, Sapundzhieva A, Sepp K, Sieber I, Šmid Hribar M, Stašová S, Steinhoff-Knopp B, Stępniewska M, Teller A, Vackar D, van Weelden M, Veidemane K, Vejre H, Vihervaara P, Viinikka A, Villoslada M, Weibel B, Zulian G. Mapping and assessing ecosystem services in the EU - Lessons learned from the ESMERALDA approach of integration. OE 2018. [DOI: 10.3897/oneeco.3.e29153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The European Union (EU) Horizon 2020 Coordination and Support Action ESMERALDA aimed at developing guidance and a flexible methodology for Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) to support the EU member states in the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy’s Target 2 Action 5. ESMERALDA’s key tasks included network creation, stakeholder engagement, enhancing ecosystem services mapping and assessment methods across various spatial scales and value domains, work in case studies and support of EU member states in MAES implementation. Thus ESMERALDA aimed at integrating various project outcomes around four major strands: i) Networking, ii) Policy, iii) Research and iv) Application. The objective was to provide guidance for integrated ecosystem service mapping and assessment that can be used for sustainable decision-making in policy, business, society, practice and science at EU, national and regional levels. This article presents the overall ESMERALDA approach of integrating the above-mentioned project components and outcomes and provides an overview of how the enhanced methods were applied and how they can be used to support MAES implementation in the EU member states. Experiences with implementing such a large pan-European Coordination and Support Action in the context of EU policy are discussed and recommendations for future actions are given.
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Haines-Young R, Potschin-Young M. Revision of the Common International Classification for Ecosystem Services (CICES V5.1): A Policy Brief. OE 2018. [DOI: 10.3897/oneeco.3.e27108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 405] [Impact Index Per Article: 67.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) is widely used for mapping, ecosystem assessment, and natural capital ecosystem accounting. On the basis of the experience gained in using it since the first version was published in 2013, it has been updated for version 5.1. This policy brief summarises what has been done and how the classification can be used.
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Balzan MV, Potschin-Young M, Haines-Young R. Island ecosystem services: insights from a literature review on case-study island ecosystem services and future prospects. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/21513732.2018.1439103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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- Mario V. Balzan
- Institute of Applied Sciences, Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology, Paola, Malta
- Centre for Environmental Management, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- Centre for Environmental Management, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
- Fabis Consulting Ltd., Barton In Fabis, Nottingham, UK
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- Centre for Environmental Management, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
- Fabis Consulting Ltd., Barton In Fabis, Nottingham, UK
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Potschin-Young M, Haines-Young R, Görg C, Heink U, Jax K, Schleyer C. Understanding the role of conceptual frameworks: Reading the ecosystem service cascade. Ecosyst Serv 2018; 29:428-440. [PMID: 31008045 PMCID: PMC6472296 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Revised: 05/29/2017] [Accepted: 05/31/2017] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The aim of this paper is to identify the role of conceptual frameworks in operationalising and mainstreaming the idea of ecosystem services. It builds on some initial discussions from IPBES, which suggested that conceptual frameworks could be used to: 'simplify thinking', 'structure work', 'clarify issues', and 'provide a common reference point'. The analysis uses the cascade model as a focus and looks at the way it has been used in recent published material and across a set of case studies from the EU-funded OpenNESS Project as a device for conceptual framing. It found that there are examples in the literature that show the cascade model indeed being used as an 'organising framework', a tool for 're-framing' perspectives, an 'analytical template', and as an 'application framework'. Although the published materials on the cascade are rich, these accounts lack insights into the process by which the different versions of the model were created, and so we turned to the set of OpenNESS case studies to examine how they read the cascade. We found that the cascade was able to provide a common reference for a diverse set of studies, and that it was sufficiently flexible for it to be developed and elaborated in ways that were meaningful for the different place-based studies. The case studies showed that generalised models like the cascade can have an important 'awareness-raising' role. However, we found that using models of this kind it was more difficult for case studies to link their work to broader societal issues such as human well-being, sustainable ecosystem management, governance, and competitiveness, than to their own concerns. We therefore conclude that to be used effectively, conceptual models like the cascade may need to be supported by other materials that help users read it in different, outward looking ways. We also need to find mechanisms for capturing this experience so that it can be shared with others.
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- M. Potschin-Young
- Fabis Consulting Ltd., Nottingham, UK1
- Corresponding author at: Fabis Consulting Ltd, The Paddocks, Chestnut Lane, Barton In Fabis, Nottingham NG11 0AE, UK.
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- Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna, Austria
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Conservation Biology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Conservation Biology, Leipzig, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Department Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Freising, Germany
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- Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna, Austria
- University of Kassel, Section of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, Witzenhausen, Germany
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The ecosystem approach is used to analyse four case studies from England to determine what kind of ecosystem knowledge was used by people, and how it shaped their arguments. The results are reported across decision-making venues concerned with: innovation, conflict management, maintenance of ecosystem function, and recognising the environment as an asset. In each area we identify the sources and uses of conceptual, instrumental, political, and social knowledge. We found that the use of these knowledges can benefit the process as well as the quality of outcomes, and so ‘add value’ to the decision-making process. However, the case studies did not exhibit any simple linear–rational model of knowledge use. Ecosystems thinking took many forms and depended on different institutional settings. As an argument-making device, the ecosystem approach must be seen in the context of a wider set of social and political processes, which involves a range of complex strategies and motives that explain the apparent ‘messiness’ of environmental decision making. The paper demonstrates that as a conceptual framework, the ecosystem approach provides a valuable theoretical template to help us discover how and what knowledge is used in deliberative styles of decision making.
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- Roy Haines-Young
- Centre for Environmental Management, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
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- Centre for Environmental Management, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
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Bateman IJ, Harwood AR, Mace GM, Watson RT, Abson DJ, Andrews B, Binner A, Crowe A, Day BH, Dugdale S, Fezzi C, Foden J, Hadley D, Haines-Young R, Hulme M, Kontoleon A, Lovett AA, Munday P, Pascual U, Paterson J, Perino G, Sen A, Siriwardena G, van Soest D, Termansen M. Ecosystem Services: Response. Science 2013; 342:421-2. [DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6157.421-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Ian J. Bateman
- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Ecology and Environment, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), London, UK
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- FuturES Research Center, Leuphana Universität, D-21335, Lüneburg, Germany
- School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- The Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, York, YO41 1LZ, UK
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Lowestoft, NR33 0HT, UK
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
- UNE Business School, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia
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- Centre for Environmental Management, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, IP24 2PU, UK
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- Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, UK
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, UK
- Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011, Bilbao, Spain
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- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, UK
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
- School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg, 20354, Hamburg, Germany
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- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Department of Spatial Economics and IVM, VU University, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Economics, Tilburg University, 5000 LE, Tilburg, Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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Bateman IJ, Harwood AR, Mace GM, Watson RT, Abson DJ, Andrews B, Binner A, Crowe A, Day BH, Dugdale S, Fezzi C, Foden J, Hadley D, Haines-Young R, Hulme M, Kontoleon A, Lovett AA, Munday P, Pascual U, Paterson J, Perino G, Sen A, Siriwardena G, van Soest D, Termansen M. Bringing ecosystem services into economic decision-making: land use in the United Kingdom. Science 2013; 341:45-50. [PMID: 23828934 DOI: 10.1126/science.1234379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 279] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Landscapes generate a wide range of valuable ecosystem services, yet land-use decisions often ignore the value of these services. Using the example of the United Kingdom, we show the significance of land-use change not only for agricultural production but also for emissions and sequestration of greenhouse gases, open-access recreational visits, urban green space, and wild-species diversity. We use spatially explicit models in conjunction with valuation methods to estimate comparable economic values for these services, taking account of climate change impacts. We show that, although decisions that focus solely on agriculture reduce overall ecosystem service values, highly significant value increases can be obtained from targeted planning by incorporating all potential services and their values and that this approach also conserves wild-species diversity.
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- Ian J Bateman
- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.
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MacLeod A, Pautasso M, Jeger MJ, Haines-Young R. Evolution of the international regulation of plant pests and challenges for future plant health. Food Secur 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s12571-010-0054-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Fitter A, Elmqvist T, Haines-Young R, Potschin M, Rinaldo A, Setälä H, Stoll-Kleemann S, Zobel M, Murlis J. Chapter 1. An Assessment of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Europe. Issues in Environmental Science and Technology 2010. [DOI: 10.1039/9781849731058-00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Kienast F, Bolliger J, Potschin M, de Groot RS, Verburg PH, Heller I, Wascher D, Haines-Young R. Assessing landscape functions with broad-scale environmental data: insights gained from a prototype development for Europe. Environ Manage 2009; 44:1099-120. [PMID: 19856022 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-009-9384-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2008] [Accepted: 09/08/2009] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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We examine the advantages and disadvantages of a methodological framework designed to analyze the poorly understood relationships between the ecosystem properties of large portions of land, and their capacities (stocks) to provide goods and services (flows). These capacities (stocks) are referred to as landscape functions. The core of our assessment is a set of expert- and literature-driven binary links, expressing whether specific land uses or other environmental properties have a supportive or neutral role for given landscape functions. The binary links were applied to the environmental properties of 581 administrative units of Europe with widely differing environmental conditions and this resulted in a spatially explicit landscape function assessment. To check under what circumstances the binary links are able to replace complex interrelations, we compared the landscape function maps with independently generated continent-wide assessments (maps of ecosystem services or environmental parameters/indicators). This rigorous testing revealed that for 9 out of 15 functions the straightforward binary links work satisfactorily and generate plausible geographical patterns. This conclusion holds primarily for production functions. The sensitivity of the nine landscape functions to changes in land use was assessed with four land use scenarios (IPCC SRES). It was found that most European regions maintain their capacity to provide the selected services under any of the four scenarios, although in some cases at other locations within the region. At the proposed continental scale, the selected input parameters are thus valid proxies which can be used to assess the mid-term potential of landscapes to provide goods and services.
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- Felix Kienast
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
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Firbank LG, Barr CJ, Bunce RGH, Furse MT, Haines-Young R, Hornung M, Howard DC, Sheail J, Sier A, Smart SM. Assessing stock and change in land cover and biodiversity in GB: an introduction to Countryside Survey 2000. J Environ Manage 2003; 67:207-18. [PMID: 12667471 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4797(02)00174-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Countryside Survey 2000 (CS2000) is the latest in a series of surveys designed to measure and evaluate stock and change of land cover, landscape features, freshwaters, habitats and the vegetation of Great Britain. The ideas behind CS2000 developed during the 1960s and 1970s and culminated in the first survey of vegetation and land cover in 1978. One kilometer sample squares were selected at random using an environmental stratification. Subsequent surveys took place in 1984, 1990 and 1998, revisiting the original sample locations, whilst progressively expanding in scope and sample size; CS2000 included soils, breeding birds, remotely sensed imagery, freshwater biota and hydromorphology. Countryside Survey data may be interpreted using the pressure-state-response model, by selecting indicators of process and quality, and by identifying models of expected responses to different pressures. Thus, results showing losses of hedgerows between 1984 and 1990 stimulated new protection for these features. Ideally, CS2000 data should be used to stimulate experiments to distinguish between different pressures, in order to ensure that policy and management responses are both appropriate and achievable.The experience from CS2000 may prove helpful for the design and management of other large scale monitoring programmes of ecosystems. In particular, the scope of the survey, and the use to which the data are applied, have evolved through time, and yet continuity was essential for change to be detected efficiently. These objectives were reconciled by collecting the data in a disaggregated form, allowing a high degree of flexibility in both analysis and reporting.
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- L G Firbank
- Merlewood Research Station, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria LA11 6JU, UK.
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Haines-Young R, Barr CJ, Firbank LG, Furse M, Howard DC, McGowan G, Petit S, Smart SM, Watkins JW. Changing landscapes, habitats and vegetation diversity across Great Britain. J Environ Manage 2003; 67:267-81. [PMID: 12667476 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4797(02)00179-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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This paper describes how Countryside Survey 2000 (CS2000) and earlier Countryside Surveys in 1990 and 1984, can be used to develop an integrated view of the changes in land cover, landscape and biodiversity that have taken place at the regional scale in Great Britain. A particular concern is to develop an understanding of how the national patterns of stock and change are distributed across Great Britain, and whether such changes are leading to more or less regional differentiation in our landscapes and biodiversity. A further concern is how the structure of landscape is changing.A description of the major Environmental Zones that make up Great Britain is given. Analysis of the regional patterns of change observed suggests that there has been considerable geographical variation in the gains and losses of the stock of the Biodiversity Action Plan Broad Habitats. Between 1984 and 1990, in the lowlands of the south and west of England and Wales, there were significant increase in the area of the Arable and Horticultural and Broadleaved Woodland Broad Habitats, and a marked loss of Improved Grassland. Over the same period, in the uplands of England and Wales, significant losses of Acid Grassland were observed, with associated gains in Improved Grassland. The Environmental Zones in Scotland were more stable in terms of the changes in stock of Broad Habitats. In addition to the analysis of net changes in stock of the Broad Habitats, the paper provides an analysis of the exchanges of land between major cover categories or each of the Environmental Zones. In contrast to the regionally concentrated changes in habitat stock, more ubiquitous and uniform changes in habitat quality were detected between 1990 and 1998, which continue trends observed for the 1980s. The quality of freshwater habitats increased. However, there were declines in the quality for some terrestrial biotopes, as indicated by the loss of species diversity from agricultural habitats, and the gains in diversity in semi-natural habitats, such as Acid Grasslands, more usually associated with vegetation types that are poor in species. An important driver of qualitative change appears to be widespread nutrient enrichment from nitrogen. However, such processes are probably superimposed upon more local factors, such as changes in the way land is managed for agriculture. The importance of understanding the various drives of change for future countryside policy is emphasized.
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- R Haines-Young
- School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
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