Title |
| Conflicting landscape services – new approaches to spatially explicit modeling of landscape services |
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 modelling techniques. |
Research Questions |
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Research Question
1: Can the complexity of land use conflicts in the study area be reduced by
means of creating a conflict typology?
Research Question 2: Can typical
socioeconomic and biophysical variables associated with conflict types be
identified? Research Question 3: Can the information generated in Q2 be used to model the distribution of areas vulnerable to land use conflicts? |
Workflow |
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Step 1: development of a classification
scheme of landscape services
Step 2: development of a typology of land use conflicts in a peri-urban landscape
Step 3: assessment of contextual biophysical and socioeconomic predictor variables for land use conflicts
Step 4: spatially explicit mapping of landscape services across the study area
Step 5: spatially explicit modelling of the conflict potential for the study area |
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 a) new methods for spatially explicit mapping of landscape services and b) new analytical tools for modelling the conflict potential at the local to regional scale. |
Methods |
| To achieve these results a combination of empirical fieldwork is employed together with exploratory multivariate statistical analysis and GIS modelling techniques. |
Data |
| 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. |
Products |
| The findings of this research project are going to be published in three research articles and one short discussion paper. |
Timeline |
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Start: Fall 2008 End: Fall 2011 |