A5033807038- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Management and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Environmental Changes in China
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
University of Leeds
2019-2024
Institute for European Environmental Policy
2022
Bournemouth University
2017-2021
Cultural ecosystem services such as aesthetic value are highly context-specific and often present difficulties in their assessment. Here we a case study the northern English Protected Area of Yorkshire Dales National Park. Utilising publicly available images, paired-comparison surveys, probability modelling, machine-learning based text annotations, natural language processing regression analysis, developed spatial model to predict map landscape aesthetics across whole site. The predictive...
Ecosystem markets are proliferating around the world in response to increasing demand for climate change mitigation and provision of other public goods. However, this may lead perverse outcomes, example where funding crowds out private investment or different schemes create trade-offs between ecosystem services they each target. The integration could address some these issues but date there have been few attempts do this, is limited understanding either opportunities barriers such...
Abstract Resilience is increasingly being considered as a new paradigm of forest management among scientists, practitioners, and policymakers. However, metrics resilience to environmental change are lacking. Faced with novel disturbances, forests may be able sustain existing ecosystem services biodiversity by exhibiting resilience, or alternatively these attributes undergo either linear nonlinear decline. Here we provide quantitative approach for assessing that focuses on three components...
Given the negative environmental impacts of intensive agriculture, there is an urgent need to reduce impact food production on biodiversity. Ecological restoration farmland could potentially contribute this goal. While positive ecological biodiversity are well established, less evidence available regarding economic development and employment. Potentially, prospects for be enhanced by though increased provision ecosystem services, which some activity depends. Here we examined issue through...
Abstract Context Agricultural intensification is being widely pursued as a policy option to improve food security and human development. Yet, there need understand the impact of agricultural on provision multiple ecosystem services, evaluate possible occurrence tipping points. Objectives To quantify assess long-term spatial dynamics service (ES) in landscape undergoing at four time points 1930, 1950, 1980 2015. Determine if thresholds or ES may have occurred are any detectable impacts...
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are widely acknowledged as important but often neglected by service assessments, leading to a representational bias. This reflects the methodological challenges associated with producing robust and repeatable CES valuations. Here we provide comparative analysis of three approaches for non-monetary valuation CES, namely structured survey, participatory GIS (PGIS) GPS tracking methods. These were used assess both recreation aesthetic value habitats within New...
Nature visitation is important, both culturally and economically. Given the contribution of nature recreation to multiple societal goals, comprehending determinants essential understand drivers associated with popularity areas, for example, inform land-use planning or site management strategies maximise benefits. Understanding factors related nature, tourism can support areas thereby, also conservation efforts biodiversity protection. This study applied a Multiscale Geographically Weighted...
Abstract The adoption of agri-environment practices (AEPs) is crucial for safeguarding the long-term sustainability ecosystem services within European agricultural landscapes. However, tailoring policies to unique characteristics farming systems a challenging task, often neglecting local farm parameters or requiring extensive survey data. Here, we develop simplified typology system archetypes (FSAs), using field-level data on farms’ economic size and specialisation derived from Integrated...
Accurate modelling of changes in freshwater supplies is critical an era increasing human demand, and land use climate. However, there are concerns that current landscape-scale models do not sufficiently capture catchment-level changes, whilst large-scale comparisons empirical simulated water yield lacking. Here we modelled annual two time periods (1: 1985-1994 2: 2008-2017) across 81 catchments England validated against data. Our objectives were to i) investigate whether absolute or relative...
Protected areas worldwide receive billions of visitors annually. The positive impact nature on health and wellbeing, in addition to providing opportunities for cultural activities such as recreation aesthetic appreciation, is well documented. Management reduce negative impacts biodiversity conservation aims whilst amenities access important. Understanding environmental awareness their on-site spatial patterns can assist making effective management decisions within often constrained...
Environmental restoration and conservation challenges go beyond what can be financed publicly. There are significant opportunities for private investment in the delivery of public goods, benefitting both commercial organisations whose business relies on ecosystem services, as well landowners, land managers general public. Thus, public-private financing natural capital improvement presents an opportunity to increase availability funding payments services that provide environmental societal...
Agri-environment schemes (AES), introduced by the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), aim to compensate land owners for implementing environmentally-friendly practices. Whilst literature has examined their effectiveness and how farmer characteristics govern AES adoption, there is a lack of knowledge about spatial drivers AES, particularly structural, biophysical landscape factors in UK. Using Humber region as case study, this paper explores uptake Countryside Stewardship options varied from...
Ecosystem markets are proliferating around the world in response to increasing demand for climate change mitigation and provision of other public goods. However, this may lead perverse outcomes, example where funding crowds out private investment or different schemes create trade-offs between ecosystem services they each target. The integration could address some these issues but date there have been few attempts do this, is limited understanding either opportunities barriers such...
Most of the agricultural policies, such as new CAP, or European Union Sustainable Development Goals, already present their list associated indicators to monitor impacts. As BESTMAP biophysical models aim map impacts these types each model outputs have a range policy indicators. This deliverable includes results an exhaustive review from different sources linked practices, with translated results. In some cases, return output that can be directly considered indicator. other support partially existing
The Case Study Base Layer, described in this deliverable, is a harmonised geospatial database spanning across the five case study areas of BESTMAP: South Moravia (Czech Republic), Mulde (Germany), Humber (Great Britain), Backa (Serbia), and Catalonia (Spain). It based on Preliminary Layer (MS3) includes information climatic soil conditions, biodiversity, land use/land cover (including crop types), farm structure socio-economic data. serves as base for biophysical ecosystem service (ES)...
This document provides a summary of the systematic analyses conducted across BESTMAP five CS as part activities in Work Packages (WP) 1, 2, 3 and 4. First, we describe main qualitative findings obtained from farmers during semi-structured interview campaigns regarding their attitudes towards implementation agri-environmental schemes (AES). Second, elaborate on results follow-up online questionnaire which included Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) to investigate farmers’ personal...
This Deliverable provides a roadmap to expansion of BESTMAP towards operational pan-European modelling platform, as well explore via pilot analyses several areas for improvement and future research. Considering new case studies, we analyse the locations where models parameterized in those regions can transfer cover most area. We conclude that they should be located northern Spain, north-west Italy, central Montenegro/Albania, Bulgaria. Testing if one model water quality at European scale,...
This document describes the interrelationships between ecosystem services, biodiversity and socio-economic outputs modelled in Work Package 3 (WP3), to identify bundles of co-occurring services. Furthermore, this presents an analysis how different types Agri-Environmental Measures (AEM) drive trade-offs synergies among The spans two AEM adoption scenarios, one without reflecting current levels, for all five Case Studies (CS) BESTMAP.
This document is the first version of Guidelines and protocols harmonizing activities across case studies H2020 BESTMAP project. It intended to be updated in month 40 (D1.8).