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Chapter 13
Planning Multifunctional Measures
for Efficient Landscape Management:
Quantifying and Comparing the Added
Value of Integrated and Segregated
Management Concepts
Carolin Galler, Christina von Haaren and Christian Albert
Abstract Scientists often argue that landscape and environmental planning should
aim for developing multifunctional landscapes in order to enhance implementation
effectiveness and public spending efficiency. In planning and decision-making
practice however, multifunctional effects are usually neither quantitatively asses-
sed nor explicitly and transparently considered. In this research, a procedure is
developed for quantitative assessment of multifunctional effects and trade-offs of
conservation measures on landscape functions. The procedure is applied on local
scale and uses available data. The method is tested for a core set of landscape
functions in a case study region in Germany. The results provide empirical con-
firmation that integrative management strategies can be considerably more effec-
tive and efficient than sectoral ones. However, the added value of integrative
environmental measures highly depends on their spatial allocation within areas of
overlapping requirements for multiple landscape functions. The results of the
analysis can help directing implementation resources towards areas and manage-
ment measures that maximize attainable benefits. The analysis thus provides very
useful support for planning decisions.
Keywords Multifunctionality
Multifunctional measures
Landscape functions
Landscape
management
Landscape
planning
Environmental
planning
Funding efficiency
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