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BioScene - Scenarios for reconciling conservation of biodiversity with declining agricultural use in the mountains of Europe
Jonathan Mitchley |
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The European Commission funded BioScene project
investigates the biodiversity implications of
agricultural decline in six mountain study areas across
Europe. BioScene’s interdisciplinary methodology
combines ecological analysis of land-use change and the
impacts on biodiversity conservation with a series of
stakeholder deliberations on the nature of past and
future changes and their landscape consequences.
Scenarios are used to organise thinking about
alternative rural futures – business as usual,
agricultural liberalisation and managed change for
conservation. For each scenario, a series of possible
future landscape mosaics are developed from the
ecological modelling and representations of these
mosaics are presented to the stakeholder panel for
evaluation. Finally, a sustainability appraisal of the
policy and management measures necessary to deliver the
goals of each scenario is conducted with participation
from the stakeholder panel to test the economic and
social sustainability of biodiversity benefits from each
scenario. The BioScene project provides insights into
the value of interdisciplinary research for policy
makers. |
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