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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vo, Hoang-Tien
• Vrachioli, Maria
• Frick, Fabian
• Sauer, Johannes
• Brucet Balmana, Sandra
• Benejam Vidal, Lluís
• Mehner, Thomas
• Lemmens, Pieter
• Oertli, Beat
• Boissezon, Aurélie
• Beklioğlu, Meryem
• Dolcerocca, Antoine
• Meerhoff, Mariana

Titel

Socio-economic or environmental benefits from pondscapes? Deriving stakeholder preferences using analytic hierarchy process and compositional data analysis

Ist Teil von

• Journal of environmental management, 2023-09, Vol.342, p.118298-118298, Article 118298

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Ponds occupy a large share of standing water worldwide and play an important role in providing various ecosystem services. There are concerted efforts of the European Union either to create new ponds, or to restore and preserve existing ponds as nature-based solutions to provide benefits to ecosystem and human well-being. As part of the EU PONDERFUL project, selected pondscapes (i.e. landscapes of ponds) in eight different countries – hereafter “demo-sites”, are studied to comprehensively understand their characteristics and their efficiency to provide ecosystem services. In addition, the needs and knowledge of stakeholders who own, work, research, or benefit from the pondscapes are also important, because of their capabilities to create, manage and develop the pondscapes. Therefore, we established connection with stakeholders to study their preferences and visions on the pondscapes. Using the analytic hierarchy process, this study shows that in general stakeholders in the European and Turkish demo-sites prefer environmental benefits to economic benefits, while stakeholders in the Uruguayan demo-sites rank the economic benefits higher. More specifically, in the European and Turkish demo-sites, the biodiversity benefits, i.e. life-cycle maintenance, habitat and gene pool protection, receive the highest ranking among all groups. On the other hand, stakeholders at the Uruguayan demo-sites rank provisioning benefits as the most important, because many ponds in Uruguayan demo-sites are being used for agricultural purposes. Understanding those preferences helps policy makers to address the needs of stakeholders more correctly, when considering any action or policy for the pondscapes. [Display omitted] •Preferences on benefits of pondscapes are derived by analytic hierarchy process.•Stakeholders of selected pondscapes in eight countries are involved.•Compositional data analysis to explore the differences among benefits.•Provisioning benefit ranks first in Uruguayan site, biodiversity in others.•The results can be used to support implementing pond's nature-based solutions.