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Conceptualizing Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Ecosystem Services: A Participatory Systems Mapping Approach

Environmental and Climate Technologies

Volume 16 (2015): Issue 1 (December 2015)

By: Rita Lopes and Nuno Videira

Open Access

|Feb 2016

Abstract

A participatory system dynamics modelling approach is advanced to support conceptualization of feedback processes underlying ecosystem services and to foster a shared understanding of leverage intervention points. The process includes systems mapping workshop and follow-up tasks aiming at the collaborative construction of causal loop diagrams. A case study developed in a natural area in Portugal illustrates how a stakeholder group was actively engaged in the development of a conceptual model depicting policies for sustaining the climate regulation ecosystem service.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rtuect-2015-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2255-8837 | Journal ISSN: 1691-5208

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Language: English

Page range: 36 - 53

Published on: Feb 12, 2016

Published by: Riga Technical University

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: Volume open

Keywords:

Participatory systems mapping,

ecosystem services/climate regulation,

stakeholders’ perceptions,

causal loop diagrams

Related subjects:

Life sciences, other

© 2016 Rita Lopes, Nuno Videira, published by Riga Technical University
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