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Assessing the Impact of Land-Use Changes on Providing Hydrological Ecosystem Functions (ESF) and Services (ESS) – A Case-Study Experience Based Conceptual Framework

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In this chapter, requirements for and lessons learnt from assessing the impact of land use and land cover change (LULCC) on the provision of hydrological ecosystem functions (ESF) and services (ESS) are demonstrated based on selected case studies. First, potentials, limits and transferability of a detailed land classification scheme developed for Germany are explored. Second, an approach how to make use of landscape metrics to correct the assessment of ESF and ESS provision in LULCC impact assessment is presented to better account for land-use pattern heterogeneity. Third, the potential of Hydrological Response Units (HRU) to bridge scale-related discrepancies between modeling, assessment and decision units is discused. Finally, a conceptual framework approach is suggested that builds on the HRU concept and merges the latter with a cellular automaton based LULCC impact assessment framework.

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We wish to thank the organizers of this book and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments to improve our paper. Projects that formed the basis of our discussion paper were ENFORCHANGE (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) project No. 0330634K), REGKLAM (BMBF project No. 01LR0802B), RegioPower (German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) No. 22019911), and ILMS (BMBF project No 03IP514).

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  1. Center for Development Research, Department of Ecology and Natural Resources Management, University of Bonn, Walter Flex Str. 3, 53113, Bonn, Germany

    Christine Fürst

  2. Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Campus Alpin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Christine Fürst

  3. Institute for Geography, Department for Geoinformatics, Hydrology and Modelling, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Löbdergraben 32, D-07743, Jena, Germany

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Fürst, C., Flügel, WA. (2015). Assessing the Impact of Land-Use Changes on Providing Hydrological Ecosystem Functions (ESF) and Services (ESS) – A Case-Study Experience Based Conceptual Framework. In: Chicharo, L., Müller, F., Fohrer, N. (eds) Ecosystem Services and River Basin Ecohydrology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9846-4_9

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