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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 101080 |
| Journal | Ecosystem Services |
| Volume | 42 |
| Early online date | 3 Mar 2020 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2020 |
Abstract
River landscapes offer diverse cultural ecosystem services. Providing more information on the quantity that river landscapes provide in terms of offered cultural ecosystem services could contribute to river landscape planning. Offered cultural ecosystem services are ecosystem contribution that may provide benefits to humans. The aim of this study is to apply an indicator framework for spatially assessing offered cultural ecosystem services in German river landscapes. Our indicator framework ‘CulturAl Ecosystem Services of River landscapes’ (CAESaR) quantifies offered cultural ecosystem services at national and local scale, with adapted sets of sub-indicators with regard to the required level of detail and available spatial data. The indicator framework considers opportunities for water-related and non water-related activities, landscape aesthetic quality, and heritage. Our results show that the highly rated river landscape areas have an above-average proportion of river courses and active floodplains. Historical floodplains provide lower offered cultural ecosystem services scores overall. The land cover classes pasture, broad-leaved forest and water courses receive high offered cultural ecosystem services scores, whereas non-irrigated arable land characterizes river landscapes with low indicator scores. We conclude that the proposed indicator framework proved applicable at various scales and can be transferred to cases with a similar context.
Keywords
- Cultural ecosystem services, Indicator development, River landscape planning, River landscapes, Spatial modeling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Environmental Science(all)
- Nature and Landscape Conservation
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Environmental Science(all)
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- Environmental Science(all)
- Global and Planetary Change
- Environmental Science(all)
- Ecology
Research Area (based on ÖFOS 2012)
- NATURAL SCIENCES
- Other Natural Sciences
- Other Natural Sciences
- Nature conservation
Sustainable Development Goals
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In: Ecosystem Services, Vol. 42, 101080, 04.2020.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing and quantifying offered cultural ecosystem services of German river landscapes
AU - Thiele, Julia
AU - Albert, Christian
AU - Hermes, Johannes
AU - von Haaren, Christina
N1 - Funding Information: The project "River Ecosystem Service Index" (RESI) was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the funding measure ReWaM in the BMBF funding priority NaWaM in the programme FONA 3 [Grant 033W024A-K]. Funding Information: We thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions and our coordinator Simone Podschun for the energetic organization of spatial data. We also thank Zo? Vercelli and Bartlett Warren-Kretzschmar for supporting us linguistically. The project ?River Ecosystem Service Index? (RESI) was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the funding measure ReWaM in the BMBF funding priority NaWaM in the programme FONA3 [Grant 033W024A-K].
PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - River landscapes offer diverse cultural ecosystem services. Providing more information on the quantity that river landscapes provide in terms of offered cultural ecosystem services could contribute to river landscape planning. Offered cultural ecosystem services are ecosystem contribution that may provide benefits to humans. The aim of this study is to apply an indicator framework for spatially assessing offered cultural ecosystem services in German river landscapes. Our indicator framework ‘CulturAl Ecosystem Services of River landscapes’ (CAESaR) quantifies offered cultural ecosystem services at national and local scale, with adapted sets of sub-indicators with regard to the required level of detail and available spatial data. The indicator framework considers opportunities for water-related and non water-related activities, landscape aesthetic quality, and heritage. Our results show that the highly rated river landscape areas have an above-average proportion of river courses and active floodplains. Historical floodplains provide lower offered cultural ecosystem services scores overall. The land cover classes pasture, broad-leaved forest and water courses receive high offered cultural ecosystem services scores, whereas non-irrigated arable land characterizes river landscapes with low indicator scores. We conclude that the proposed indicator framework proved applicable at various scales and can be transferred to cases with a similar context.
AB - River landscapes offer diverse cultural ecosystem services. Providing more information on the quantity that river landscapes provide in terms of offered cultural ecosystem services could contribute to river landscape planning. Offered cultural ecosystem services are ecosystem contribution that may provide benefits to humans. The aim of this study is to apply an indicator framework for spatially assessing offered cultural ecosystem services in German river landscapes. Our indicator framework ‘CulturAl Ecosystem Services of River landscapes’ (CAESaR) quantifies offered cultural ecosystem services at national and local scale, with adapted sets of sub-indicators with regard to the required level of detail and available spatial data. The indicator framework considers opportunities for water-related and non water-related activities, landscape aesthetic quality, and heritage. Our results show that the highly rated river landscape areas have an above-average proportion of river courses and active floodplains. Historical floodplains provide lower offered cultural ecosystem services scores overall. The land cover classes pasture, broad-leaved forest and water courses receive high offered cultural ecosystem services scores, whereas non-irrigated arable land characterizes river landscapes with low indicator scores. We conclude that the proposed indicator framework proved applicable at various scales and can be transferred to cases with a similar context.
KW - Cultural ecosystem services
KW - Indicator development
KW - River landscape planning
KW - River landscapes
KW - Spatial modeling
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101080
DO - 10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101080
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VL - 42
JO - Ecosystem Services
JF - Ecosystem Services
SN - 2212-0416
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