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Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel
Most current approaches to landscape scale ecosystem service assessments rely on detailed secondary data. This type of data is seldom available in regions with high levels of poverty and strong local dependence on provisioning ecosystem services for livelihoods. We develop a method to extrapolate re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5794140/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29389965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192019 |
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author | Malmborg, Katja Sinare, Hanna Enfors Kautsky, Elin Ouedraogo, Issa Gordon, Line J. |
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description | Most current approaches to landscape scale ecosystem service assessments rely on detailed secondary data. This type of data is seldom available in regions with high levels of poverty and strong local dependence on provisioning ecosystem services for livelihoods. We develop a method to extrapolate results from a previously published village scale ecosystem services assessment to a higher administrative level, relevant for land use decision making. The method combines remote sensing (using a hybrid classification method) and interviews with community members. The resulting landscape scale maps show the spatial distribution of five different livelihood benefits (nutritional diversity, income, insurance/saving, material assets and energy, and crops for consumption) that illustrate the strong multifunctionality of the Sahelian landscapes. The maps highlight the importance of a diverse set of sub-units of the landscape in supporting Sahelian livelihoods. We see a large potential in using the resulting type of livelihood benefit maps for guiding future land use decisions in the Sahel. |
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spelling | pubmed-57941402018-02-16 Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel Malmborg, Katja Sinare, Hanna Enfors Kautsky, Elin Ouedraogo, Issa Gordon, Line J. PLoS One Research Article Most current approaches to landscape scale ecosystem service assessments rely on detailed secondary data. This type of data is seldom available in regions with high levels of poverty and strong local dependence on provisioning ecosystem services for livelihoods. We develop a method to extrapolate results from a previously published village scale ecosystem services assessment to a higher administrative level, relevant for land use decision making. The method combines remote sensing (using a hybrid classification method) and interviews with community members. The resulting landscape scale maps show the spatial distribution of five different livelihood benefits (nutritional diversity, income, insurance/saving, material assets and energy, and crops for consumption) that illustrate the strong multifunctionality of the Sahelian landscapes. The maps highlight the importance of a diverse set of sub-units of the landscape in supporting Sahelian livelihoods. We see a large potential in using the resulting type of livelihood benefit maps for guiding future land use decisions in the Sahel. Public Library of Science 2018-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5794140/ /pubmed/29389965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192019 Text en © 2018 Malmborg et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Malmborg, Katja Sinare, Hanna Enfors Kautsky, Elin Ouedraogo, Issa Gordon, Line J. Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel |
title | Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel |
title_full | Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel |
title_fullStr | Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel |
title_full_unstemmed | Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel |
title_short | Mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural Sahel |
title_sort | mapping regional livelihood benefits from local ecosystem services assessments in rural sahel |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5794140/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29389965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192019 |
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