Landsbygdens naturresurser och andra värden är viktiga för att vidareutveckla en biobaserad ekono... more Landsbygdens naturresurser och andra värden är viktiga för att vidareutveckla en biobaserad ekonomi och att stärka Sverige som besöksnation. Därför är det viktigt med befolkade, aktiva och växande landsbygder. Landsbygden står dock inför stora utmaningar. Hur skapas attraktiva bygder? Hur bevaras gamla jobb, och skapas nya? Hur bevaras ekologiska, sociala och kulturella värden? Genom tvärvetenskaplig forskning tillsammans med aktörer på olika samhällsnivåer verkar vi för en hållbar landsbygd genom att generera kunskap och bidra till lärande. Vårt internationella arbetssätt ger nya perspektiv på kunskapsproduktion och lärande tillsammans med praktiker, och skapar förutsättningar för problembaserad utbildning för hållbar landsbygdsutveckling. Här presenteras huvudinriktningarna för vår forskning för hållbar landsbygdsutveckling
Ecosystem Services aim to embed ecological goals onto political-economic decisions. However, they... more Ecosystem Services aim to embed ecological goals onto political-economic decisions. However, they fail to capture the complexity in social-ecological interactions, leading to fragmented land-use decision-making and valuation. Consideration of landscape´s multiple dimensions represents a pathway forward. This symposium will discuss the advantages and limitations of the concept of landscape, and of landscape ecology, to facilitate the contribution of the Ecosystem Services framework towards devising holistic territorial approaches that can underpin sustainability by better linking together pattern, processes and people
Grön infrastruktur innebär ett strategiskt planerat nätverk av högkvalitativa mer eller mindre na... more Grön infrastruktur innebär ett strategiskt planerat nätverk av högkvalitativa mer eller mindre naturliga marktäcken som är utformade och skötta för att bevara biologisk mångfald och leverera ett brett utbud av ekosystem-tjänster både på landsbygden och i städerna. För att identifiera vilka olika sådana marktäck-en som upplevs gynna människors välbefin-nande, intervjuade vi 400 personer som bor i städer eller på landsbygden i de tre län som bäst representerar den befintliga gradienten mellan stad och land i Sverige. Fjäll ovan trädgränsen, sjöar, gammel-skogar, hagmarker, gårdar på landet och äldre tallskogar är prioriterade miljöer för människors välbefinnande på landet och i staden (se foton). E nligt både EU:s och Sveriges rikt-linjer är innebär grön infrastruktur ett strategiskt planerat nätverk av mer eller mindre naturliga områden av hög kvalitet och andra lämpliga miljöegenskaper som är utformade och skötta för att leverera ett brett utbud av ekosystemtjänster och skydda biolo...
Natural capital is the foundation for delivering multiple ecosystem services important for biodiv... more Natural capital is the foundation for delivering multiple ecosystem services important for biodiversity and human wellbeing. Functional green infrastructure (GI) is one of the land management approaches to secure the sustainable use of natural capital. This chapter presents the outcomes of a integrative research for knowledge production and learning towards functional GI in the Baltic Sea Region. The overview of attempts to develop functional GI in Sweden, Latvia, Belarus and the Russian Federation, the countries with different contexts, illustrates similar sets of challenges in the maintenance of GI functions for both biodiversity and human wellbeing. The main challenges are (1) sustaining sufficient amounts of representative ecosystems with functional connectivity, (2) maintaining land management practices that support natural and seminatural areas important for human wellbeing and (3) development of stakeholder cross-sectoral collaboration laboratories towards a sustainable use o...
Mountains above the tree-line, lakes, oldgrowth forests, wood-pastures, single rural farmsteads a... more Mountains above the tree-line, lakes, oldgrowth forests, wood-pastures, single rural farmsteads and mature pine forests were identified by the majority of respondents as important for their well-being (see photographs above). According to EU and Swedish policy, green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of high quality natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features, which is designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services and conserve biodiversity in both rural and urban settings. Green infrastructure should fulfil two main functions: biodiversity conservation and human well-being. This study focused solely on human-related functions of green infrastructure that deliver a wide range of ecosystem services for well-being of both urban and rural residents. From a spatial planning perspective, there is a need to identify and locate priority land covers that provide multiple Priority land covers of green infrastructure for human well-bein...
To investigate if the study design affects conclusions about the impact of moose browsing damage ... more To investigate if the study design affects conclusions about the impact of moose browsing damage on young trees we used three designs: (1) a comparison of managed Swedish forest landscapes, (2) a natural experiment approach in Sweden, and (3) a macroecological approach involving six countries in northern Europe from Norway to Russia. Per Angelstam, Simen Pedersen, Michael Manton, and Marine Elbakidze
Transnarodowe obszary ochrony przyrody, których ważnym przykładem jest Puszcza Białowieska, stano... more Transnarodowe obszary ochrony przyrody, których ważnym przykładem jest Puszcza Białowieska, stanowią znaczną część wszystkich aktualnych form obszarowej ochrony bioróżnorodności. Według naszego rozeznania nie było dotąd prac empirycznych dotyczących związanej z tym problematyki międzynarodowych dóbr publicznych. Staramy się wypełnić tę lukę, badając społeczne preferencje – zarówno w Polsce, jak i na Białorusi – odnośnie ochrony krajowych i zagranicznych fragmentów ekologicznego systemu puszczańskiego przedzielonego granicą państwową. Wyniki naszych eksperymentów z wyborem wskazują, że skala obecnej współpracy jest efektywna ekonomicznie, oraz pożądana społecznie. W artykule badamy zjawisko wzajemnej niechęci fi nansowania rozszerzenia obszarów ochrony biernej w Puszczy Białowieskiej. Tylko wśród polskich respondentów udało się zidentyfi kować nieliczne osoby, które gotowe byłyby partycypować fi nansowo w hipotetycznym projekcie zlokalizowanym w kraju sąsiada. Ponadto, by polscy resp...
Natural capital is the foundation for delivering multiple ecosystem services important for biodiv... more Natural capital is the foundation for delivering multiple ecosystem services important for biodiversity and human wellbeing. Functional green infrastructure (GI) is one of the land management approaches to secure the sustainable use of natural capital. This chapter presents the outcomes of a integrative research for knowledge production and learning towards functional GI in the Baltic Sea Region. The overview of attempts to develop functional GI in Sweden, Latvia, Belarus and the Russian Federation, the countries with different contexts, illustrates similar sets of challenges in the maintenance of GI functions for both biodiversity and human wellbeing. The main challenges are (1) sustaining sufficient amounts of representative ecosystems with functional connectivity, (2) maintaining land management practices that support natural and seminatural areas important for human wellbeing and (3) development of stakeholder cross-sectoral collaboration laboratories towards a sustainable use of ecosystem services across the Baltic Sea Region. To deal with these challenges, there are at least five main sets of opportunities: (1) favourable international policies towards functional GI, (2) the abundance of applied knowledge in biodiversity conservation needed for GI’s integrated spatial planning, (3) existing landscape approach initiatives with rich experience in sustainable management and governance of landscapes, (4) the potential of landscape restoration projects and (5) transdisciplinary research projects that have been practised in the Baltic Sea Region. Stakeholders have much to gain from increased multilateral, learning-based collaborations regarding all aspects of sustainable forest landscapes. Such collaborations could serve as laboratories for cross-border governance and management in the Baltic Sea Region.
Ecosystem services (ES) research has rapidly gained momentum in environmental policy and practice... more 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.
Landsbygdens naturresurser och andra värden är viktiga för att vidareutveckla en biobaserad ekono... more Landsbygdens naturresurser och andra värden är viktiga för att vidareutveckla en biobaserad ekonomi och att stärka Sverige som besöksnation. Därför är det viktigt med befolkade, aktiva och växande landsbygder. Landsbygden står dock inför stora utmaningar. Hur skapas attraktiva bygder? Hur bevaras gamla jobb, och skapas nya? Hur bevaras ekologiska, sociala och kulturella värden? Genom tvärvetenskaplig forskning tillsammans med aktörer på olika samhällsnivåer verkar vi för en hållbar landsbygd genom att generera kunskap och bidra till lärande. Vårt internationella arbetssätt ger nya perspektiv på kunskapsproduktion och lärande tillsammans med praktiker, och skapar förutsättningar för problembaserad utbildning för hållbar landsbygdsutveckling. Här presenteras huvudinriktningarna för vår forskning för hållbar landsbygdsutveckling
Ecosystem Services aim to embed ecological goals onto political-economic decisions. However, they... more Ecosystem Services aim to embed ecological goals onto political-economic decisions. However, they fail to capture the complexity in social-ecological interactions, leading to fragmented land-use decision-making and valuation. Consideration of landscape´s multiple dimensions represents a pathway forward. This symposium will discuss the advantages and limitations of the concept of landscape, and of landscape ecology, to facilitate the contribution of the Ecosystem Services framework towards devising holistic territorial approaches that can underpin sustainability by better linking together pattern, processes and people
Grön infrastruktur innebär ett strategiskt planerat nätverk av högkvalitativa mer eller mindre na... more Grön infrastruktur innebär ett strategiskt planerat nätverk av högkvalitativa mer eller mindre naturliga marktäcken som är utformade och skötta för att bevara biologisk mångfald och leverera ett brett utbud av ekosystem-tjänster både på landsbygden och i städerna. För att identifiera vilka olika sådana marktäck-en som upplevs gynna människors välbefin-nande, intervjuade vi 400 personer som bor i städer eller på landsbygden i de tre län som bäst representerar den befintliga gradienten mellan stad och land i Sverige. Fjäll ovan trädgränsen, sjöar, gammel-skogar, hagmarker, gårdar på landet och äldre tallskogar är prioriterade miljöer för människors välbefinnande på landet och i staden (se foton). E nligt både EU:s och Sveriges rikt-linjer är innebär grön infrastruktur ett strategiskt planerat nätverk av mer eller mindre naturliga områden av hög kvalitet och andra lämpliga miljöegenskaper som är utformade och skötta för att leverera ett brett utbud av ekosystemtjänster och skydda biolo...
Natural capital is the foundation for delivering multiple ecosystem services important for biodiv... more Natural capital is the foundation for delivering multiple ecosystem services important for biodiversity and human wellbeing. Functional green infrastructure (GI) is one of the land management approaches to secure the sustainable use of natural capital. This chapter presents the outcomes of a integrative research for knowledge production and learning towards functional GI in the Baltic Sea Region. The overview of attempts to develop functional GI in Sweden, Latvia, Belarus and the Russian Federation, the countries with different contexts, illustrates similar sets of challenges in the maintenance of GI functions for both biodiversity and human wellbeing. The main challenges are (1) sustaining sufficient amounts of representative ecosystems with functional connectivity, (2) maintaining land management practices that support natural and seminatural areas important for human wellbeing and (3) development of stakeholder cross-sectoral collaboration laboratories towards a sustainable use o...
Mountains above the tree-line, lakes, oldgrowth forests, wood-pastures, single rural farmsteads a... more Mountains above the tree-line, lakes, oldgrowth forests, wood-pastures, single rural farmsteads and mature pine forests were identified by the majority of respondents as important for their well-being (see photographs above). According to EU and Swedish policy, green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of high quality natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features, which is designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services and conserve biodiversity in both rural and urban settings. Green infrastructure should fulfil two main functions: biodiversity conservation and human well-being. This study focused solely on human-related functions of green infrastructure that deliver a wide range of ecosystem services for well-being of both urban and rural residents. From a spatial planning perspective, there is a need to identify and locate priority land covers that provide multiple Priority land covers of green infrastructure for human well-bein...
To investigate if the study design affects conclusions about the impact of moose browsing damage ... more To investigate if the study design affects conclusions about the impact of moose browsing damage on young trees we used three designs: (1) a comparison of managed Swedish forest landscapes, (2) a natural experiment approach in Sweden, and (3) a macroecological approach involving six countries in northern Europe from Norway to Russia. Per Angelstam, Simen Pedersen, Michael Manton, and Marine Elbakidze
Transnarodowe obszary ochrony przyrody, których ważnym przykładem jest Puszcza Białowieska, stano... more Transnarodowe obszary ochrony przyrody, których ważnym przykładem jest Puszcza Białowieska, stanowią znaczną część wszystkich aktualnych form obszarowej ochrony bioróżnorodności. Według naszego rozeznania nie było dotąd prac empirycznych dotyczących związanej z tym problematyki międzynarodowych dóbr publicznych. Staramy się wypełnić tę lukę, badając społeczne preferencje – zarówno w Polsce, jak i na Białorusi – odnośnie ochrony krajowych i zagranicznych fragmentów ekologicznego systemu puszczańskiego przedzielonego granicą państwową. Wyniki naszych eksperymentów z wyborem wskazują, że skala obecnej współpracy jest efektywna ekonomicznie, oraz pożądana społecznie. W artykule badamy zjawisko wzajemnej niechęci fi nansowania rozszerzenia obszarów ochrony biernej w Puszczy Białowieskiej. Tylko wśród polskich respondentów udało się zidentyfi kować nieliczne osoby, które gotowe byłyby partycypować fi nansowo w hipotetycznym projekcie zlokalizowanym w kraju sąsiada. Ponadto, by polscy resp...
Natural capital is the foundation for delivering multiple ecosystem services important for biodiv... more Natural capital is the foundation for delivering multiple ecosystem services important for biodiversity and human wellbeing. Functional green infrastructure (GI) is one of the land management approaches to secure the sustainable use of natural capital. This chapter presents the outcomes of a integrative research for knowledge production and learning towards functional GI in the Baltic Sea Region. The overview of attempts to develop functional GI in Sweden, Latvia, Belarus and the Russian Federation, the countries with different contexts, illustrates similar sets of challenges in the maintenance of GI functions for both biodiversity and human wellbeing. The main challenges are (1) sustaining sufficient amounts of representative ecosystems with functional connectivity, (2) maintaining land management practices that support natural and seminatural areas important for human wellbeing and (3) development of stakeholder cross-sectoral collaboration laboratories towards a sustainable use of ecosystem services across the Baltic Sea Region. To deal with these challenges, there are at least five main sets of opportunities: (1) favourable international policies towards functional GI, (2) the abundance of applied knowledge in biodiversity conservation needed for GI’s integrated spatial planning, (3) existing landscape approach initiatives with rich experience in sustainable management and governance of landscapes, (4) the potential of landscape restoration projects and (5) transdisciplinary research projects that have been practised in the Baltic Sea Region. Stakeholders have much to gain from increased multilateral, learning-based collaborations regarding all aspects of sustainable forest landscapes. Such collaborations could serve as laboratories for cross-border governance and management in the Baltic Sea Region.
Ecosystem services (ES) research has rapidly gained momentum in environmental policy and practice... more 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.
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