Incorporating different perspectives
Frankl 1969, in Naveh 2001
Brandt 2003
Brandt 2003
Cowling et al 2008 - PNAS
Stage 1
Design
Define scope of assessment
Intensity of stakeholder engagement
Stage 2
Evaluation
Characterising social system
Characterising bio-physical system
Economic valuation
Integrated Analysis
(Spatial & multivariate analysis, trade-offs, policy
endpoints, equity)
Review
Stage 3
Planning
Define alternate future states and scenarios
Develop strategies and responses
Stage 4
Communicating
Reporting
Review
Intensity of advisory and technical committee engagement
Identify services and coupled
beneficiaries
Communication & dissemination
Figure 1. An approach for assessing ecosystem services at a local level
Integrally involved
Notified
Issues
1) What are the research questions?
2) Understand the social – ecological dynamic, comunity value
mapping
3) Spatial temporal dynamics (regime shifts, feedbacks, drivers)
4) Within and beyond the city and the flow of benefits
5) Critical nodes of intervention – social & regulating, buffers
6) Data avaliability:
• primary data vs proxies
• Site specific data vs generic data
• hard vs soft data
• modeling and scenarios