Rozas Vásquez, Daniel Alejandro: Mainstreaming the ecosystem services approach in strategic environmental assessment of spatial planning in Chile. - Bonn, 2017. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-48768,
author = {{Daniel Alejandro Rozas Vásquez}},
title = {Mainstreaming the ecosystem services approach in strategic environmental assessment of spatial planning in Chile},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2017,
month = oct,

note = {Spatial planning plays a key role in policy decision-making given its influence on the future changes over the land systems and subsequently on the quality, quantity and spatial distribution of the ecosystem services (ES) that they provide. A variety of strategies and instruments has been applied for integrating environmental objectives as well as concerns regarding the impacts generated by development planning policies. Thus, strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is considered today as a key instrument that helps to integrate environmental and sustainability issues in decision-making creating conditions for sustainable development along with a transparent and participatory process. Here, the ES approach gains relevance by offering a more holistic integration of the socio-ecological system and facilitating the communication and understanding of diverse stakeholders and decision makers during the planning process. However, despite the advantages offered by the ES approach, there is still a low level of explicit integration in both the spatial planning regulations and practical applications.
This research addresses the issue of integrating the ES approach in SEA at different scales in order to identify the possibilities and challenges for implementing this integrated framework in real-world spatial planning. This study was carried out in Chile where three main methodological steps were followed: 1) identification of the multiple actors related to the spatial planning and environmental assessment process as well as the networks among them based on the ES and SEA understanding, 2) exploration whether this integration is currently present at some point in the planning system and how ES have been considered so far in the development of spatial plans at different scales, and 3) participatory identification and prioritization of ecosystem services for scenario development in regional planning.
The main findings suggest that: 1) a common understanding related to SEA and especially to ES is still in an initial stage in Chile when the context of multiple actors is considered. Additionally, a lack of institutional guidelines and methodological support is considered the main challenge for integration, 2) ES were always present across each SEA stage and planning scale. Moreover, a relation is suggested between specific ES and the scope and focus of the different spatial planning instruments, and 3) the most important land-uses in terms of supplying a range of ES, benefits and beneficiaries were wetlands and native forest. In addition, provisioning ES was the most representative section after a prioritization process but closely followed by regulating ES.
It can be concluded that ES are clearly necessary for achieving a number of development objectives and dealing with a range of environmental problems. However, a critical aspect is the lack of an explicit consideration, which might decrease the potential advantages offered by the integrated framework ES-SEA. Furthermore, preconditions exist in Chile for integrating ES in SEA and the spatial planning practice, but they strongly depend on an appropriate governance scheme that encourages a close science-policy interaction as well as collaborative work and learning.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/7040}
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