1. Multi-functional land use Trade-offs in a dynamic world
Peter Verburg
Julia Stürck
Multi-functional land use Trade-offs in a dynamic world
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of Earth Sciences

2. Land use options always come with trade-offs
There is no single ‘Sustainable Land Use’
All options come with trade-offs
Between the services provided (food, biodiversity, regulation)
Between stakeholders/beneficiaries
Between locations, local and global
Between value systems: monetary, social or physical
Between the short term and the long term
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of Earth Sciences

3. Multi-functional Land Use

5. Tradeoffs between multifunctionality and single function capacity
Number of functions
Function capacity
Summed capacity of landscape functions (0-3)
Multifunctionality: increase of total capacity to provide goods and services
Int. livestock
Cult. heritage
Residential
Leisure
Arable prod.
Plant habitat
Tourism
Multifunctionality: decrease of capacity per landscape function
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of Earth Sciences
Willemen et al., 2010 Ecological Indicators

6. How to measure multifuctionality?

8. Multifunctionality of Europe according to different indices

9. Number of overlaps of multifunctionality hotspots across multifunctionality indicators at analysis scales (0 km, 5 km, and NUTS2 regions)

10. Change in multifunctionality 2000-2040 (B2 scenario)

11. Location matters Land use change simulation: 2000-2040 2000-2040
Sturck et al., in press REC

13. Ecosystem bundle changes per land use trajectory

14. Ecosystem bundle changes per land use trajectory
abandonment contributing
to growth of large-scale
nature R

15. Conclusions Multi-functionality is what you define it to be
Multi-functionality is scale sensitive
Land change leads to changes in multifunctionality (both increase and decrease)
Land change trajectories cause changes in the ‘bundle of ecosystem services’

16. Thank you!
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of Earth Sciences