Analysing climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies for sustainable rural land use and landscape developments in Austria - Teilprojekt TS
Abstract
Changes in European agricultural landscapes have gained on intensification in the second half of the last century. Among others, they are driven by global change phenomena such as climate change, demographic change and migration, increasing global bio-energy demands and changing human diets as well as by trade liberalisation, technological progress, and leakage effects of land use policy interventions. Farmers usually respond to such changes by adapting production and land use systems to efficiently utilize and manage their farm resource endowments. However, this process often leads to adverse impacts on the diversity of agricultural landscapes and environmental qualities. EU policies have been formulated as a reaction to singular or sectoral problems (e.g. the Common Agricultural Policy, the Water Framework Directive, the Nitrates Directive, NATURA2000), which are usually differently implemented among member states by using a variety of legislative or incentive based instruments. Consequently, more coordination among policies is required to minimize the trade-offs between different land use policy targets (i.e. land conservation versus boosting biomass production), and between private (adaptive) and societal (mitigative) land use benefits. Mitigation and adaptation are often separately analysed due to the nature of the problem i.e. mitigation is often considered as public good versus adaptation as private or club good. However, it is necessary to consider both in assessing the mutual benefits of cost-effective land uses and farm mitigation and adaptation measures, which mainly depend on spatial heterogeneity of natural and farming conditions. Consequently, it is important to consider bio-physical, ecological, and economic relationships in assessing the mitigative (public) and adaptive (private) potentials and trade-offs of alternative land uses and farm management measures. In this project we implement a data-model-policy fusion concept, which shall guarantee cost-effective mitigation and adaptation of farms and sustainable landscape and biodiversity developments in the context of climate, market, and policy instrument changes. The concept is applied to two case-study landscapes in the “Mostviertel” region in Austria and contains an integrated spatially explicit modelling framework to simulate the land use changes at field, farm, and landscape level as well as cost-effective farm mitigation and adaptation portfolios. The land use changes are assessed with farm economic, biodiversity, abiotic, and landscape indicators including GIS-modelling and field observations. Biodiversity effects are central in the integrated assessment acknowledging the roles of landscape structure and land use intensity. Geo-referenced land uses and land use attributes are a major interface in the data-model-policy fusion concept. The results will help farmers and regional stakeholders to identify best management practices for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the two case study landscapes and beyond. The scientific community shall gain by empirical evidences of landscape structure and land use intensity effects on biodiversity as well as by an integrated assessment of adaptation and mitigation measures at field, farm, and landscape level. Policy makers will receive scientific guidance to adequately regulate adverse direct and indirect land use effects of multiple land use policies.
Publikationen
Assessing aesthetic landscape values in land use models using GIS-based analysis and landscape metrics approach
Autoren: Schauppenlehner, T., Schönhart, M., Schmid, E., Muhar, A. Jahr: 2011
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Nachhaltige Landnutzung und Landschafts-entwicklung im Zeichen des Klimawandels: Analyse von Szenarien zu Klimafolgenanpassung und -minderung im ländlichen Raum
Autoren: Schauppenlehner, T., Schönhart, M., Kuttner, M., Renetzeder, C., Amon, H., Schmid, E., Wrbka, T. Jahr: 2011
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Landschaftskulissen – ein GIS-basierter Ansatz zur Analyse der räumlichen Landschaftsstruktur und Bewertung landschaftsästhetischer Aspekte
Autoren: Schauppenlehner, T; Amon, H Jahr: 2012
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Analyse klimawandelbedingter Anpassungs- und Mitigationsstrategien hinsichtlich einer nachhaltigen agrarischen Landnutzung und Landschaftsentwicklung in einer ausgewählten österreichischen Landschaft
Autoren: Schauppenlehner, T; Kuttner, M; Schönhart, M Jahr: 2012
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
<BR>Bewertung des Landschaftsbildes im Zuge der Errichtung von Windkraftanlagen auf Waldstandorten
Autoren: Salak, B; Schauppenlehner, T; Brandenburg, C; Jiricka, A; Czachs, C; Höltinger, S; Scherhaufer, P; Schmidt, J Jahr: 2015
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Integrated landscape modelling of climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation policies in Austria
Autoren: Schönhart, M., Schauppenlehner, T., Kuttner, M., Kirchner, M, Schmid, E. Jahr: 2015
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Low-cost immersive 3D visualisations for evaluating visual impacts of wind parks using smartphones and free software
Autoren: Schauppenlehner, T., Salak, B., Höltinger, S., Schmidt, J., Scherhaufer, P. Jahr: 2015
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Mitarbeiter*Innen
Thomas Schauppenlehner
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Thomas Schauppenlehner
thomas.schauppenlehner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85316
BOKU Project Leader
01.07.2010 - 30.09.2012