Integrating ecosystem services with geodesign to create multifunctional agricultural landscapes: A case study of a New Zealand hill country farm

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dc.citation.volume146
dc.contributor.authorTran DX
dc.contributor.authorPearson D
dc.contributor.authorPalmer A
dc.contributor.authorDominati EJ
dc.contributor.authorGray D
dc.contributor.authorLowry J
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-09T22:05:44Z
dc.date.available2024-10-09T22:05:44Z
dc.date.issued2023-02
dc.description.abstractAn ecosystem-based management approach (EBM) is suggested as one solution to help to tackle environmental challenges facing worldwide farming systems whilst ensuring socio-economic demands are met. Despite its usefulness, the application of this approach at the farm-scale presents several implementation problems, including the difficulty of (a) incorporating the concept of ecosystem services (ES) into agricultural land use decision-making and (b) involving the farmer in the planning process. This study aims to propose a solution to overcome these challenges by utilising a geodesign framework and EBM approach to plan and design a sustainable multifunctional agricultural landscape at the farm scale. We demonstrate how the proposed approach can be applied to plan and design multifunctional agricultural landscapes that offer improved sustainability, using a New Zealand hill country farm as a case study. A geodesign framework is employed to generate future land use and management scenarios for the study area, visualize changes, and assess the impacts of future land use on landscape multifunctionality and the provision of associated ES and economic outcomes. In this framework, collaboration with the farmer was carried out to obtain farm information and co-design the farmed landscapes. The results from our study demonstrate that farmed landscapes where multiple land use/ land cover types co-exist can provide a wide range of ES and therefore, meet both economic and environmental demands. The assessment of impacts for different land use change scenarios demonstrates that land use change towards increasing landscape diversity and complexity is a key to achieving more sustainable multifunctional farmed landscapes. The integration of EBM and geodesign, is a transdisciplinary approach that can help farmers target land use and management decisions by considering the major ES that are, and could be, provided by the landscapes in which these farm systems are situated, therefore maximising the potential for beneficial outcomes.
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dc.edition.editionFebruary 2023
dc.identifier.citationTran DX, Pearson D, Palmer A, Dominati EJ, Gray D, Lowry J. (2023). Integrating ecosystem services with geodesign to create multifunctional agricultural landscapes: A case study of a New Zealand hill country farm. Ecological Indicators. 146.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109762
dc.identifier.eissn1872-7034
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1470-160X
dc.identifier.number109762
dc.identifier.piiS1470160X22012353
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/71662
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X22012353
dc.relation.isPartOfEcological Indicators
dc.rights(c) The author/sen
dc.rights.licenseCC BYen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectEcosystem management
dc.subjectLand use planning
dc.subjectSustainable farming
dc.subjectEnvironmental management
dc.subjectCollaborative planning
dc.subjectFarm scale analysis
dc.titleIntegrating ecosystem services with geodesign to create multifunctional agricultural landscapes: A case study of a New Zealand hill country farm
dc.typeJournal article
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