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Rural landscape design: think local, involve locals
Boeraeve, Fanny; Pipart, Nathalie; Dendoncker, Nicolas et al.
20158th Ecosystem Services Partnership - Ecosystem services for Nature, People and Prosperity
 

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Keywords :
ecosystem services; social valuation; rural; empowerment; social learning
Abstract :
[en] The urge to involve stakeholders from the start of ecosystem service (ES) assessments is increasingly addressed in literature. This is even more the case when studying rural landscape planning for which impacts on ES have proved to be highly context specific. Despite the growing amount of social ES valuations, few studies integrate them to a biophysical ES assessment. To fill in this gap, we developed a methodology where the social ES valuation directly serves the biophysical ES assessment. By combining components of the Delphi and the focus group methods, our approach allows to provide good insights on the preferred ES within the studied locality. Thanks to the deliberative phase, it also provides information on the divergences and convergences among the social values held by local stakeholders. The underpinning aim of the exercise is to reach a consent within the group. Conversely to a consensus where the decision must be unanimous, a consent seeks decisions where nobody has fundamental opposition to it. We believe that applying such approach has the potential to: - guide the biophysical ES assessment towards ES which are relevant to the study area and important in the eyes of local stakeholders; - create opportunity for collective social learning; - identify networks of influences and/or social interdependencies related to ES; - empower local stakeholders while enhancing the democratic process of decision-making. The presentation first introduces the backbone of the methodology. Two case-studies in which we applied the innovative approach will then be presented. The first case study relates to local ES assessment carried out in agroecological and conventional farms in a Western locality in Belgium. The second case-study relates to a land consolidation scheme project. Outcomes of the approach applied in both cases are put forward, and adaptation of the methodology for the distinct purposes and contexts are elucidated.
Research center :
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Disciplines :
Agriculture & agronomy
Life sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Boeraeve, Fanny ;  Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biodiversité et Paysage
Pipart, Nathalie;  Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix - Namur - FUNDP > Géographie
Dendoncker, Nicolas;  Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix - Namur - FUNDP > Géographie
Dufrêne, Marc  ;  Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biodiversité et Paysage
Language :
English
Title :
Rural landscape design: think local, involve locals
Publication date :
10 November 2015
Event name :
8th Ecosystem Services Partnership - Ecosystem services for Nature, People and Prosperity
Event place :
Stellenbosh, South Africa
Event date :
9-13 Novembre 2015
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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