Abstract

Recent studies have shown the opportunities and limitations of participatory mapping for ecosystem services management, although it is an incipient research area. One of the research questions yet to be addressed is whether the composition of stakeholder groups has an effect on the outputs of participatory mapping. In this study, we assessed the influence of group composition on the mapped spatial distribution of ecosystem services. We developed two participatory mapping workshops of the ecosystem service supply and demand in the Nacimiento Watershed (Andalusia, Spain). In workshop 1, stakeholders were uniformly grouped according to their level of influence on land management. In workshop 2, we created mixed groups, with participants having dissimilar levels of influence on land management. The strategy of the second workshop aimed to foster social learning among participants, which was expected to influence the mapping outputs. We compared the outputs regarding the mapped spatial distribution of the ecosystem service supply and demand between the two workshops. Our results suggest that social learning occurred in groups with a mixed composition of participants, affecting the mapped spatial distribution of the supply and demand of ecosystem services. Finally, we discuss that knowledge exchange among participants can be supported through deliberative processes that occur in participatory settings, when stakeholders have different degrees of influence on land management. This can also enrich the assessment of the distribution of ecosystem services.

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Title
Evaluating social learning in participatory mapping of ecosystem services
Author
García-Nieto, Ana P 1 ; Huland, Elias 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Quintas-Soriano, Cristina 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Iniesta-Arandia, Irene 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; García-Llorente, Marina 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Palomo, Ignacio 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Martín-López, Berta 2 

 Fractal, Madrid, Spain 
 Faculty of Sustainability, Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany 
 Fractal, Madrid, Spain; Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany 
 Fractal, Madrid, Spain; Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, Spain 
 Fractal, Madrid, Spain; Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, c. Darwin, 2, Edificio de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 
 Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, c. Darwin, 2, Edificio de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Bilbao, Spain 
Pages
257-268
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Dec 2019
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
e-ISSN
26395916
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2353562412
Copyright
© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.