Speerpunt Ecosystem & Landscape Services (SELS) Dolf de Groot 8 Nov Environmental Systems Analysis Group

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1 Speerpunt Ecosystem & Landscape Services (SELS) Dolf de Groot 8 Nov Environmental Systems Analysis Group WUR mission: to explore5the potential of nature 4 3 to improve the quality of life 1 = ecosystems & landscapes 2 = services 4 = financing & decision-support instruments 5 = research & communication 2 3 = Values 1

2 Policy relevance: increasing attention for quality of landscape & environment, climate change, poverty issues Investeren in het Nederlandse Landschap: opbrengst geluk en euro s (LNV, 2007) V&W: multi-functional use (climate change) RMNO: Congres 'Groen en Gezond, hoe verder?' 25 april 2007 Nederland weer Mooi (VROM Delta Plan ) DGIS: ES & Poverty Alleviation Verbeteren landschap is winstgevend Van onze verslaggeefster Map Oberndorff DEN HAAG - Een investering van acht miljard euro in het landschap levert de maatschappij een verbetering van de leefkwaliteit en 25 miljard euro op. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek in opdracht van het ministerie van Landbouw, dat dinsdag is aangeboden aan landbouwminister Gerda Verburg.

3 'Speerpunt' Ecosystem and Landscape Services (SELS) SELS is a long-term research program aimed at developing knowledge about quantifying, evaluating and financing ecosystem and landscapes services and to implement this knowledge in integrated local planning, landscape design and management Some key questions. -How to translate ecosystem/landscape properties into functions, goods & services - How to value ecosystem/landscape services? -How to balance trade-offs in the use of ecosystem landscape services in space and time? Agree on central concepts: landscape <-> ecosystem function <-> service? other?? -How can ecosystem services be taken into account in landscape planning & management? -Which financing instruments are most suited to stimulate / achieve sustainable use of ecosystem /landscape services?

4 SELS Approach & Themes 5. Financing LS 4. ELS & Spatial Planning Vragen vanuit beleid en maatschappij Communication & visualisation (5) Financing Mechanisms Management instruments Ecosystem & Landscape Properties (1) Ecosystem /Landscap Functions (+ Goods & Services) (4) Plan-alternatives & Design -Scenario development -Spatial analysis (& mapping) (2) Values (ecological, cultural, & economic) (3) Trade-off analysis (optimisation & costbenefit analysis) ~Climate change 3. Trade-off Instr (DSS-tools, Incl MKBA) 1. Quantifying ES (incl. spatial aspects) ~ Thresholds/Veerkracht 2. Valuation ( ECE ) (incl. perceptions (landsch.bel) ~gezondheid ( welzijn & betrokkenh.) MNP

5 SELS Aims: -To support & stimulate innovative research on E&LS (what are the main policy-questions in 3-4 years?) - To stimulate and co-finance PhD-projects (in collaboration with research schools) -To stimulate production of scientific articles and organisation of workshops and symposia -To make an inventory of ongoing WUR-research on E&LS and provide a platform for information-exchange and collaboration -To increase external visibility of the WUR-work on E&LS and facilitate communication with policy- and potential clients

6 = Sels Advies & Secretariaat Functionalities: -Info on projects -publications -links to data bases -agenda Future: -Downlaod/upload -Interactive -Discussion-groups -Etc..

7 SELS THEMES & PROJECTS (& Parallel Sessions ) Theme subject Theme 1: Identifying and quantifying ecosystem and landscape functions Theme 2: Values and perceptions of Ecosystem & Landscape Services Theme 3: E&LS in trade-off analysis and decision-making Theme 4: E&LS in planning, management, and design Theme 5: Financing Instruments for sustainable use of E&LS Lead Rob Bugter Joke Luttik Roel Jongeneel Peter vd Meer Herbert Diemont Projects ? ? ? ? ? ?

8 Pilot Case National Landscape Groene Woud Small-scale landscape with many functions and (historical) values Carla Grashof en Joost Tersteeg Pilot Case: NLP Groene Woud + PhD-trajectories (not necessarily in Groene Woud ) (E)Valuating spatial adaptation strategies in response to long term climate change related water scarcety (Jeroen Veraart) Theme 3 Landscape services as a spatial planning concept (Jolande Termorshuizen) Theme 4 Conditionality in financing mechanisms: if services aren t delivered, people won t pay (Gerdien Meijerink) Theme 5

9 Aim & set-up parallel-sessions Identify key questions & missing topics: i.e. what should SELS focus on in the coming years (from science & policy perspective) Key questions identified by Steering group / from literature / your input How can the relationships between landscape and ecosystem characteristics and their functions and associated goods and services be quantified? [link with Rubicode] What is the effect of dynamic conditions (temporal and spatial) on services, in terms of sustainability and resilience? [link met Rubicode en Speerpunt Veerkracht] What are possible critical thresholds of these relationships? [Link Veerkracht] How can these relationships and the relevant dynamic interactions be modelled? [Costanza/MIMES What is the spatial distribution of, and interactions between functions and how can they be mapped? [EEF-US, CI, IUCN, IALE] etc Vote -> hand-in at the end of the session etc Questions, choices and projects Most interest Few questions t heme 1 t heme 2 t heme 3 t heme 4 t heme 5 Session-organisation: 5 colors Project s quest ions second choice f irst choice Least interest? (science), most inter. (policy)? Theme 1 =17, 2=14, 3=15, 4=15, 5=9