Promoting cross-boundary collaboration for ecosystem service management at landscape scales

Encouraging collaboration for the provision of ecosystem services

Katrin Prager Social Economic & Geographical Sciences

Introduction

Research as part of LandscapePartners project

macaulay.ac.uk/landscapepartners

Ecosystems in landscapes

How to implement an ecosystem services approach on

the ground

Coordination and collaboration across property

boundaries and across sectors

Limitations to regulatory policies – voluntary approaches

and incentive schemes

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Prerequisites

Problem perception

Ability and willingness to cooperate, local ideas for

solutions

Opportunity to trial new approach/ management practice

Land tenure and property rights

Formal institutional barriers

Wider public support for

realignment of public

expenditure

Information input:

Stakeholder analysis

Spatial and land use planning

Exiting plans, programmes, incentive schemes

Market drivers, commodity prices

Available budgets, additional sources

Ecosystem services, trade-offs (Model Ecosystem

Framework)

Available technologies, management practices

Planning and Design

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Design and Implementation Process of a scheme for collaborative provision of ecosystem services

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Implementation

Communication: vertical, horizontal, two-way

Capacity of administering authority

Partnership group: awareness raising, scheme promotion,

monitoring, feedback on implementation difficulties,

public information

Facilitators, training and advice

Awareness raising: preferred sources of information;

signage; rewards; logo; promoting and fund-raising

organisation

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Thank you for your attention!

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