Huber Robert
Grassland conservation across European landscapes protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services with ecological networks. (GreeNet)
Project Number: CH-31BD30_209650
| Project Type: |
Research_Project |
| Project Duration: |
02/05/2023 - 02/06/2025 |
| Funding Source: |
SNSF , |
| Project Leader: |
Dr. Robert Huber
Agrarökonomie und Agrarpolitik
Dept. Umweltsystemwissenschaften (D-USYS)
ETH Zürich
SOL C9
Sonneggstrasse 33
8092 Zürich
Phone: +41 (0) 44 632 53 92 ; +41 (0) 44 632 25 23
FAX: +41 (0) 44 632 13 09
e-Mail: rhuber(at)ethz.ch
http://www.aecp.ethz.ch/ |
Disciplines:
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| Economics |
| other areas of environmental sciences |
| Economics |
| other areas of environmental sciences |
Keywords:
Agricultural Policy; Synergies; Landscape; Grassland; Biodiversity; Trade-offs; Conservation; Ecosystem Services
Abstract:
Permanent grasslands are an important land cover type in European protected areanetworks, valued for their biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES). Aligning thebiodiversity and ES conservation agendas whilst sustaining agricultural land-use on alandscape scale is an important societal priority. Integrating social-ecologicalknowledge on grassland use in protected areas would provide an important basis fordeveloping and maintaining protected landscapes and for optimizing the use of scarcepublic resources.GreeNet’s major objective, therefore, is to develop transition pathways for sustainablemanagement of European grasslands under a combined land sparing and land sharingparadigm prototyping novel ways to develop and maintain protected landscapes.GreeNet will analyse grassland case studies in Austria, Estonia, Germany, Ireland,Norway, and Switzerland considering a gradient of protection status from currentlyunprotected but highly valuable landscapes, to Natura 2000 areas, biosphere reserves,nature parks, and national parks.GreeNet brings together scholars from multiple disciplines and stakeholders acrossmultiple scales. Its inter- and transdisciplinary methodology integrates assessments ofconservation management options at the farm level with field and landscape scaleassessments of innovative indicators of biodiversity and ES considering spatial effectsfrom landscape coordination. Methodologies are jointly developed at consortium leveland applied at case study level. They include i) the design of integrated conservationmanagement options at the landscape scale through the mapping of grasslands withmachine-learning techniques, ii) the evaluation of landscape multifunctionality withecological tools across landscape intensity gradients, iii) the empirical assessment andmodelling of attitudes, preferences, and constraints of farmers regarding individualand collaborative conservation management options and landscape protectionstatuses, taking into account global change scenarios, iv) the analysis ofcost-effectiveness of conservation incentive schemes in different governance systemsusing a policy planning model at landscape scale and v) the analysis and developmentof governance strategies towards long-term protection of grassland landscapes.Participatory processes are organised at three levels (farms, regions, international),during different project stages, with different levels of engagement, and in multipleparticipatory processes.The social-ecological perspective in GreeNet on the spatially explicit field and landscapescale allows to identify the barriers and enabling factors that make landscapeprotection effective and acceptable by farmers and the public. Hence, GreeNet willaddress local landscape scale design challenges and Pan-European policy goals suchas the national biodiversity strategies, the Aichi-targets, and SDGs.
Source of Information: NF-Import 2023
Last update: 8/12/26
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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