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Practical solutions for bottlenecks in ecosystem services mapping

authored by: Ignacio Palomo, Louise Willemen, Evangelia Drakou, Benjamin Burkhard, Neville Crossman, Chloe Bellamy, Kremena Burkhard, C. Sylvie Campagne, Anuja Dangol, Jonas Franke, Sylwia Kulczyk, Solen Le Clec’h, Dania Abdul Malak, Lorena Muñoz, Vytautas Narusevicius, Sam Ottoy, Jennifer Roelens, Louise Sing, Amy Thomas, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Peter Verweij
Abstract: Background Ecosystem services (ES) mapping is becoming mainstream in many sustainability assessments, but its impact on real world decision-making is still limited. Robustness, enduser relevance and transparency have been identified as key attributes needed for effective ES mapping. However, these requirements are not always met due to multiple challenges, referred to here as bottlenecks, that scientists, practitioners, policy makers and users from other public and private sectors encounter along the mapping process. New information A selection of commonly encountered ES mapping bottlenecks that relate to seven themes: i) map-maker map-user interaction; ii) nomenclature and ontologies; iii) skills and background; iv) data and maps availability; v) methods-selection; vi) technical difficulties; and vii) over-simplification of mapping process/output. The authors synthesise the variety of solutions already applied by map-makers and map-users to mitigate or cope with these bottlenecks and discuss the emerging trade-offs amongst different solutions. Tackling the bottlenecks described here is a crucial first step towards more effective ES mapping, which can in turn ensure the adequate impact of ES mapping in decision-making.
Organisation(s): Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology
Institute of Environmental Planning
Physical Geography Group
External Organisation(s): Basque Centre for Climate Change
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
University of Adelaide
Forestry Commission
Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH (RSS)
University of Warsaw
ETH Zurich
Universite Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne
Universidad de Malaga
University of Tromso
Vilnius University
PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts
KU Leuven
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Aarhus University
Wageningen University and Research
Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)
University of Twente
Type: Article
Journal: One Ecosystem
Volume: 3
Publication date: 03.01.2018
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.3897/oneeco.3.e20713 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.15488/4148 (Access: Open)

BibTeX

@article{d4024d310edb4d6da218081931ae7de7,
title = "Practical solutions for bottlenecks in ecosystem services mapping",
abstract = "Background Ecosystem services (ES) mapping is becoming mainstream in many sustainability assessments, but its impact on real world decision-making is still limited. Robustness, enduser relevance and transparency have been identified as key attributes needed for effective ES mapping. However, these requirements are not always met due to multiple challenges, referred to here as bottlenecks, that scientists, practitioners, policy makers and users from other public and private sectors encounter along the mapping process. New information A selection of commonly encountered ES mapping bottlenecks that relate to seven themes: i) map-maker map-user interaction; ii) nomenclature and ontologies; iii) skills and background; iv) data and maps availability; v) methods-selection; vi) technical difficulties; and vii) over-simplification of mapping process/output. The authors synthesise the variety of solutions already applied by map-makers and map-users to mitigate or cope with these bottlenecks and discuss the emerging trade-offs amongst different solutions. Tackling the bottlenecks described here is a crucial first step towards more effective ES mapping, which can in turn ensure the adequate impact of ES mapping in decision-making.",
keywords = "Ecosystem services, Mapping, Solutions, Spatial analysis, Sustainability",
author = "Ignacio Palomo and Louise Willemen and Evangelia Drakou and Benjamin Burkhard and Neville Crossman and Chloe Bellamy and Kremena Burkhard and {Sylvie Campagne}, C. and Anuja Dangol and Jonas Franke and Sylwia Kulczyk and {Le Clec{\textquoteright}h}, Solen and {Abdul Malak}, Dania and Lorena Mu{\~n}oz and Vytautas Narusevicius and Sam Ottoy and Jennifer Roelens and Louise Sing and Amy Thomas and {Van Meerbeek}, Koenraad and Peter Verweij",
note = "Funding information: IP was funded by the Juan de la Cierva Formaci{\'o}n grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FJCI-2014-20236). BB, NC and CSC were funded by the ESMERALDA project, which receives funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642007. The authors wish to thank the participants of the “Solving practical bottlenecks in ecosystem service mapping” session at the European ESP Conference 2016 in Antwerp. They contributed substantially to the bottlenecks{\textquoteright} identification and description. We thank two reviewers for their suggestions during the review process. IP was funded by the Juan de la Cierva Formaci{\'o}n grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FJCI-2014-20236). BB, NC and CSC were funded by the ESMERALDA project, which receives funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642007.",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "3",
doi = "10.3897/oneeco.3.e20713",
language = "English",
volume = "3",
journal = "One Ecosystem",
issn = "2367-8194",
publisher = "Pensoft Publishers",
}