TY - JOUR
T1 - Stakeholder perspectives of wood-pasture ecosystem services
T2 - a case study from Iberian dehesas
AU - Garrido, Pablo
AU - Elbakidze, Marine
AU - Angelstam, Per
AU - Plieninger, Tobias
AU - Pulido, Fernando
AU - Moreno, Gerardo
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Ecosystem services (ES) research has rapidly gained momentum in environmental policy and practice. However, qualitative socio-cultural approaches are still limited, and therefore, ES important for people, are currently not commonly captured. We performed 34 face-to-face semi-structured interviews to describe stakeholders' appreciation of ES from dehesa landscapes in northern Extremadura, Spain. A total of 45 ES were mentioned, and compared among different sectors and levels of governance. At the local level, people appreciated especially provisioning and cultural services. In contrast, regional level respondents showed more appreciation for regulating and supporting services, which included biodiversity conservation and climate regulation. Private and public sector respondents appreciated provisioning services more, whereas the civil sector mentioned supporting and regulating services more. For instance, water regulation was only mentioned by civil and public sector respondents, while genetic resource preservation was only expressed by the private sector. All sectors noted cultural services as key ES. We discuss most mentioned ES by respondents, the co-production nature of ES in wood-pastures, as well as cultural services as key ES of dehesas in coupled social-ecological systems. We conclude with policy recommendations drawn from the insights of this study.
AB - Ecosystem services (ES) research has rapidly gained momentum in environmental policy and practice. However, qualitative socio-cultural approaches are still limited, and therefore, ES important for people, are currently not commonly captured. We performed 34 face-to-face semi-structured interviews to describe stakeholders' appreciation of ES from dehesa landscapes in northern Extremadura, Spain. A total of 45 ES were mentioned, and compared among different sectors and levels of governance. At the local level, people appreciated especially provisioning and cultural services. In contrast, regional level respondents showed more appreciation for regulating and supporting services, which included biodiversity conservation and climate regulation. Private and public sector respondents appreciated provisioning services more, whereas the civil sector mentioned supporting and regulating services more. For instance, water regulation was only mentioned by civil and public sector respondents, while genetic resource preservation was only expressed by the private sector. All sectors noted cultural services as key ES. We discuss most mentioned ES by respondents, the co-production nature of ES in wood-pastures, as well as cultural services as key ES of dehesas in coupled social-ecological systems. We conclude with policy recommendations drawn from the insights of this study.
KW - Dehesa landscape
KW - Qualitative approach
KW - Social-ecological system
KW - Socio-cultural valuation
KW - Traditional knowledge and practices
KW - Transhumance
U2 - 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.10.022
DO - 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.10.022
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84995468142
SN - 0264-8377
VL - 60
SP - 324
EP - 333
JO - Land Use Policy
JF - Land Use Policy
ER -
