Network landscape representation: ecosystem services context

Abstract

Mostly ecosystem problems concern contradictions between extensive land use and cover in the context of sustainable agricultural landscape. Environment governance along with land use planning and development requires a thorough consideration of capacities and flows of ecosystem services and concomitant goods as well. Pertinent assessment is usually performed through mapping techniques. However, experts emphasized the need to find and apply novel means of presenting the structure and dynamics of service-providing entities. This paper introduces a brief characterization of landscape of the Oka district (Republic of Buryatia, Russia) in novel network scope with aim to provide further possible tradeoff between traditional land use and ecosystem sustainability.