Qualitative Assessment of Forest Ecosystem Services: The Stakeholders’ Point of View in Support of Landscape Planning

Forests

Isabella De Meo¹  Fabrizio Ferretti²  Alessandro Paletto²  MariaGiulia Cantiani³ 

[1] CREA, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, 50125 Firenze, Italy;CREA, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, 52100 Arezzo, Italy;Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy;

关键词: social assessment;    forest multifunctionality;    stakeholders’ involvement;    forest planning;    questionnaire survey;   

DOI  :  10.3390/f9080465

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In the last decades, the ecosystem services (ES) concept has become one of the main challenges of study and discussion in the scientific community. The quantitative and qualitative assessment of ES is as a tool to address forest management planning on a local scale. Forest landscape management planning is the most suitable level for integrating social needs and demands in the enhancement of different forest ES. Some regions in Italy have developed forest landscape management plans taking into account the social preferences for the different ES. In this paper, we refer to five case studies in three pilot areas in Italy. A survey collected and analyzed the opinions and preferences, from 362 stakeholders, for ten ES included in three categories (provisioning, regulating and cultural services). The main aim of this study is to understand what type of variables (study area, the groups of interest and socio-demographic characteristics of respondents) most influence stakeholder preferences for ES. The results show that for the sample of stakeholders involved in the survey, the most important ES category is regulating services followed by cultural services. In addition, the results show that the group of stakeholders’ interest is the most important variable influencing their preferences for ES.

【 授权许可】

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