Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Bogumiła Krygowskiego 10, 61-680, Poznań, Poland.
Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, ul. Szamarzewskiego 89c, 60-568, Poznań, Poland.
Ambio. 2022 Sep;51(9):2043-2057. doi: 10.1007/s13280-022-01722-2. Epub 2022 Mar 28.
Policies and strategies for tree management and protection on a national, regional, and local level have not sufficiently considered differences between rural and urban areas. We used expert knowledge to compare rural and urban areas in a case study evaluating the relative importance of ecosystem services (ES) in policy development. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and focus group discussions were used to rank 17 ES, representing four classes of services: provisioning, regulating, habitat, and cultural. The results indicated that effective protection strategies, beyond simply increasing general tree cover, should consider specific benefits trees provide to local communities. We discuss the role of objective prioritization of ES delivered by trees in urban and rural areas and their consequences for decision-making processes.
国家、地区和地方层面的树木管理和保护政策及战略并未充分考虑农村和城市地区之间的差异。我们在一项案例研究中利用专家知识对农村和城市地区进行了比较，评估了生态系统服务（ES）在政策制定中的相对重要性。分析层次过程（AHP）和焦点小组讨论被用来对 17 项 ES 进行排名，这些 ES 代表了四类服务：供应、调节、栖息地和文化。结果表明，有效的保护策略不应仅仅局限于提高一般树木覆盖率，而应考虑树木为当地社区提供的具体利益。我们讨论了树木在城市和农村地区提供的 ES 的客观优先排序的作用及其对决策过程的影响。
