کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1055763 1485269 2014 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Mapping and monitoring High Nature Value farmlands: Challenges in European landscapes
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
نقشه برداری و نظارت بر زمین های زراعتی با ارزش بالا: چالش ها در مناظر اروپایی
کلمات کلیدی
سیاست کشاورزی، زمین های زراعتی با ارزش بالا، چارچوب نظارت و ارزیابی، برنامه های توسعه روستایی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی انرژی های تجدید پذیر، توسعه پایدار و محیط زیست
چکیده انگلیسی


• The conceptual and political background to the European High Nature Value farmlands (HNVf) concept is reviewed.
• An overview of the methodological approaches currently taken to identify HNVf is outlined.
• The inability to integrate HNVf data at varying scales across Europe is highlighted.
• The need to address data availability and spatial/temporal resolutions are highlighted.
• A novel collaborative framework to enhance HNVf monitoring and assessment is proposed.

The importance of low intensity farming for the conservation of biodiversity throughout Europe was acknowledged early in the 1990s when the concept of ‘High Nature Value farmlands’ (HNVf) was devised. HNVf has subsequently been given high priority within the EU Rural Development Programme. This puts a requirement on each EU Member State not only to identify the extent and condition of HNVf within their borders but also to track trends in HNVf over time. However, the diversity of rural landscapes across the EU, the scarcity of (adequate) datasets on biodiversity, land cover and land use, and the lack of a common methodology for HNVf mapping currently represent obstacles to the implementation of the HNVf concept across Europe. This manuscript provides an overview of the characteristics of HNVf across Europe together with a description of the development of the HNVf concept. Current methodological approaches for the identification and mapping of HNVf across EU-27 and Switzerland are then reviewed, the main limitations of these approaches highlighted and recommendations made as to how the identification, mapping and reporting of HNVf state and trends across Europe can potentially be improved and harmonised. In particular, we propose a new framework that is built on the need for strategic HNVf monitoring based on a hierarchical, bottom-up structure of assessment units, coincident with the EU levels of political decision and devised indicators, and which is linked strongly to a collaborative European network that can provide the integration and exchange of data from different sources and scales under common standards. Such an approach is essential if the scale of the issues facing HNVf landscapes are to be identified and monitored properly at the European level. This would then allow relevant agri-environmental measures to be developed, implemented and evaluated at the scale(s) required to maintain the habitats and species of high nature conservation value that are intimately associated with those landscapes.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management - Volume 143, 1 October 2014, Pages 140–150
نویسندگان
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