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 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
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Conflicting landscape services
Conflicting landscape services – new approaches to the spatially explicit modeling of landscape services
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Purpose
Land use conflicts are the result of interactions between the social,
economic and ecological realm of the human-environmental system. Recent
publications also hypothesize land use conflicts to be the perceivable
manifestations of conflicting landscape services. The purpose of this study is
to test this hypothesis. To achieve these results a combination of
empirical fieldwork is employed together with exploratory multivariate
statistical analysis and GIS modeling techniques.
Key Publications:
Von der Dunk, A., Gret-Regamy, A., Dalang, T.,
Hersperger, A. 2011. Defining a typology of peri-urban land-use
conflicts - a case study from Switzerland.
Landscape and Urban Planning 101:
149-156.
von der Dunk, A., 2012:
Landnutzungskonflikte im Schweizer Mittelland. Neue Forschungsansätze zur Untersuchung eines komplexen Phänomens. Inf.bl. Landsch. 85: 3-4.
PDF, 1.5 MB
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Research Questions
- Can the complexity of land use conflicts in the study area be
reduced by means of creating a conflict typology?
- Can typical socioeconomic and biophysical variables associated with
conflict types be identified?
- Can the information generated in Q2 be used to model the
distribution of conflicting landscapes services?
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Expected Results
The expected results will provide new methods and tools for
practitioners and scientists working in the field of landscape planning. More
precisely, the study is expected to deliver
- new methods for spatially
explicit mapping of landscape services and
- new analytical tools for modeling the conflict potential at the local to regional scale.
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Methods
To achieve these results a combination of empirical fieldwork is
employed together with exploratory multivariate statistical analysis and GIS modeling techniques (neighborhood analysis, geographically weighted
regression).
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Study area
The study area extends across 29 consecutive municipalities, covering approx. 600 km2. The area is part of the Swiss Central Plains, an intensively used and densely populated cultural landscape. The study area is of genuine peri-urban character: it is favorable with commuters to the nearby urban agglomerations (Bern, Basel & Zürich), is crisscrossed by major transportation, and has most productive agricultural land. The area provides a large variety of land uses within a limited area and is thus particular prone to the eruption of land use conflicts.
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Data Used
The study’s primary empirical database is derived from a content
analysis of the regions local newspaper. Where necessary, the media information
is enriched with the study of official documents and expert interviews.
Biophysical and socioeconomic variables, the study’s secondary data, are
collected from national and regional statistical databases.
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Preliminary Results
(Fall 2010)
Media content analysis was conducted from September 2006 to September
2009. For this timer period a total of 164 land use conflicts were recorded. It
was found that peri-urban conflicts indeed show a great variety and complexity.
Nevertheless, 6 preliminary conflict types could be delineated. These are
- ‘Health hazards’
- ‘Visual blight’
- ‘Noise pollution’
- ‘Preservation of the past’
- ‘Ecosystem conservation‘
- ‘Changes
to the established neighborhood’.
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Affiliated institution
ETH Zürich
Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) Research Unit
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| Keywords: |
land use conflicts, landscape planning, landscape services, landscape functions, ecosystem services, spatial modelling, risk-mapping, socio-economics, geodemographics, similarity scoring |
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