Social-Ecological Systems Institute, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany.
Working Conservation Consulting, 1st Avenue, Fernie, BC, V0B1M0, Canada.
Ambio. 2024 Dec;53(12):1752-1767. doi: 10.1007/s13280-024-02056-x. Epub 2024 Aug 2.
Human-driven land use change can result in unequitable outcomes in the provision and appropriation of ecosystem services (ES). To better address equity-related effects of land use change in decision-making, analyses of land use and ES changes under different land use management alternatives should incorporate ecological and social information and take a disaggregated approach to ES analysis. Because such approaches are still scarce in the literature, we present a generalized social-ecological approach to support equitable land use decision-making (in terms of process and outcomes) and an example of its application to a case study in southwestern Ethiopia. We propose a six-step approach that combines scenario planning with equity-focused, disaggregated analyses of ES. Its application in our study area made equity-related effects of land use change explicit through the recognition of different beneficiary groups, value types, and spatial locations. We recommend the application of our approach in other contexts, especially in the Global South.
人为驱动的土地利用变化可能导致生态系统服务（ES）的提供和分配出现不公平的结果。为了在决策中更好地解决土地利用变化的公平相关影响，应将生态和社会信息纳入不同土地利用管理方案下的土地利用和 ES 变化分析，并对 ES 分析采用细分方法。由于此类方法在文献中仍然很少见，因此我们提出了一种广义的社会-生态方法来支持公平的土地利用决策（就过程和结果而言），并提供了一个在埃塞俄比亚西南部案例研究中应用的示例。我们提出了一个六步方法，将情景规划与以公平为重点的、对 ES 的细分分析相结合。该方法在我们的研究区域中的应用通过识别不同的受益群体、价值类型和空间位置，明确了土地利用变化的公平相关影响。我们建议在其他情况下应用我们的方法，特别是在全球南方。
