SERVICES (SERVICES) Januar 2017 bis Dezember 2018

Cultural ecosystem services contribute to a sustainable development of cultural landscapes. Conserving European natural as well as cultural heritage is essential to provide proper habitats for flagship species (wolf, lynx or bear). However, ecosystem services in spatial planning have often been associated to natural experiences, based on floristic or topographical criteria, while the experience of wildlife observation is more a recently upcoming topic.

SERVICES addressed the following challenges:

1. How to integrate species-specific behaviours in spatial planning to control habitat functions?
2. How do new modelling approaches improve the participatory planning process at the interface between the ecosystem and land system?
3. How to involve various research institutes, regional stakeholders and local inhabitants?

Cross-border cooperation among countries (e.g. Poland or Romania), which host potential donors of wildlife population are quite important for the (re-) settlement of flagship species. The main goal of SERVICES was to strengthen the research focus as well as to publish the outcomes in a synthesis paper.