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

Environmental and Climate Technologies 2016
Rita Lopes, Nuno Videira

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.

Keywords
Participatory systems mapping; ecosystem services/climate regulation; stakeholders’ perceptions; causal loop diagrams
DOI
10.1515/rtuect-2015-0011

Lopes, R., Videira, N. Conceptualizing Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Ecosystem Services: A Participatory Systems Mapping Approach. Environmental and Climate Technologies, 2016, 16, pp.36-53. ISSN 1691-5208. e-ISSN 2255-8837. Available from: doi:10.1515/rtuect-2015-0011

Publication language
English (en)