Cultural ecosystem services contribute to a sustainable development of cultural landscapes. Conserving European natural as well as cultural heritage is essential to provide proper habitats for flagship species (wolf, lynx or bear). However, ecosystem services in spatial planning have often been associated to natural experiences, based on floristic or topographical criteria, while the experience of wildlife observation is more a recently upcoming topic. SERVICES addresses the following challenges:
Cross-border cooperation among countries (e.g. Poland or Romania), which host potential donors of wildlife population are quite important for the (re-) settlement of flagship species. The main goal of SERVICES will be to strengthen the research focus as well as to publish the outcomes in a synthesis paper. Furthermore, the consortium applies for one or more international research funding programs.
GLP Themes: Land governance, Urban-rural interactions, Land use and conflict
GLP Methods: Co-production and transdisciplinarity, Decision support tools and approaches, GIS, Integrative Assessments, Interdisciplinary methods, Modelling, Participatory methods, Past land use/historical land use reconstruction, Qualitative social science methods (interviews, observations, document review, surveys), Remote Sensing, Social network analysis, Spatial Analysis, Synthesis/meta-analysis/meta-study, Visualization/Scenarios
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Germany