Patrick Metzger
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 810031 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patrick Metzger |
| NOMBRES | Patrick |
| APELLIDO | Metzger |
| FIRMA | METZGER P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5119-5894 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
‘We want to be the hosts of this story’
Debates abound regarding how to use land for nature recovery and environmental governance. Such decisions require an understanding of benefits and trade‐offs, and increasingly rely on vast quantities of data, delivered through digital technologies. However, barriers such as data accessibility, adequacy, communication, knowledge types and technical capabilities prevent more equitable engagement with such decision‐making. Efforts to improve this in…
How can ecosystem services scenarios inform forest planning?—Seven lessons from Leanachan Forest, Scotland
There are growing societal expectations that forests are managed for multiple benefits including carbon storage, biodiversity, health and recreation. Consequently, forest managers are increasingly expected to consider how external factors, including climate change, affect the future of their forests and the wider public benefits they provide. But traditional silvicultural methods providing production forecasts based on mensuration surveys and sit…
En torno a la marginalización y la noción de acumulación territorial en la ciudad de Esmeraldas en Ecuador
Pretendemos contribuir a un entendimiento crítico de la noción de acumulación territorial a partir de una discusión de la marginalización. El caso de la ciudad de Esmeraldas (Ecuador) y el estado aparente de marginalidad en el cual se mantiene en el tiempo invitan a cuestionar los usos y efectos de la categoría analítica: acumulación. No pensamos la marginalidad de Esmeraldas como una característica esencial sino como un proceso histórico multifa…
The limitations and risks of land use change tools in decision-making
Land use change is needed to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss and is increasingly incentivised through natural capital approaches that reward delivery of ecosystem services including carbon sequestration and biodiversity. A proliferation of land use change decision-support tools are developed –often by private companies– to support land use change decision-making and measure success of government policy and private investment targets…
Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity
Environmental knowledge networks (EKNs) link research collaborators in a common purpose to produce data and knowledge to better understand social-ecological phenomena and address environmental challenges. Over recent years, as scientists have grappled with how to produce data and actionable knowledge for conservation and sustainability, more EKNs have been established. Although each network is founded for its own purposes and maintains its own go…
Research note
The Jul'hoan people from lXaelxae, Botswana, have an active repertoire of songs accompanied by leg rattles and hand clapping that are part of what is known as a trance dance. It was found that a specific group of Jul'hoan people, who used a finite set of 12 songs, was able to identify a song in the majority of the cases by listening only to hand clapping. The participants suggested that 'speed' or 'relative pace' was diagnostic. This suggestion w…
‘Bonkers but good!’ – Using illustration-based interview methods to understand land management and conservation visions
Visions help to understand common ground and tensions among citizens and stakeholders, supporting inclusive land management and conservation solutions to the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis. With careful design and sufficient resource, it is possible to bring together communities and other stakeholders to share perspectives and deliberate desired futures, identifying more acceptable alternatives and avoiding costly delays. We evaluated …
Regional scale integrated land use planning to meet multiple objectives
Pressure is increasing globally to deliver integrated land use at large spatial scales (10–100 s km2) to address the climate and biodiversity emergencies through delivery of nature-based solutions. There is also pressure to decentralise land use decision-making to sub-national levels of government and multi-stakeholder partnerships, with the aim of improving policy targeting, coordination and participation. Whilst there has been significant resea…
Navigating tensions in inclusive conservation
Inclusive conservation is promoted as a means to integrate stakeholders in nature, conservation. Despite several studies recognizing that inclusive conservation of protected areas may be challenging and requires explicitly addressing potential tensions between stakeholders, little research has unpacked how these tensions manifest in specific contexts. This paper aims to explore possible approaches for navigating tensions to improve the facilitati…
Glocal woodlands – The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland
As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector have pledged to restore landscapes through planting millions of hectares of forests. Private sector investment is to play a critical role in meeting these goals, through instruments such as biodiversity offsetting, philanthropy, voluntary carbon markets, sustain…
In danger of co-option
Community ownership and management of land has gained prominence in environmental policy discussions, especially within land restoration debates. Within Scotland, community land ownership is promoted as a means to give communities greater say over land use decisions, receive a greater share of the benefits from land, and help deliver a just transition to the government of Scotland’s net-zero targets. These goals are supported by legal mechanisms …
Multifunctionality of a peri-urban landscape
Developing successful policies for sustainable land use requires understanding the perspectives of different actors. This study explored how residents – an often under-represented and un-organized group – vary in their valuation of ecosystem services (ES) and perception of multifunctionality in a peri-urban setting. We conducted 127 interviews in the Kromme Rijn region of the Netherlands guided by an interactive, visual canvas tool (STREAMLINE). …
How stable are visions for protected area management? Stakeholder perspectives before and during a pandemic
Envisioning processes enable protected area managers to chart a course for future management to reach desired goals, but unexpected changes that could affect future visions are not usually considered. The global COVID‐19 pandemic provided an opportunity to explore changes in stakeholder visions, the values that underpin the visions, and their perceptions of landscape changes and the underlying drivers (e.g. climate change, mass tourism and demogr…
Inclusive conservation and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
The draft Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework commits to achievement of equity and justice outcomes and represents a ‘‘relational turn’’ in how we understand inclusive conservation. Although ‘‘inclusivity’’ is drawn on as a means to engage diverse stakeholders, widening the framing of inclusivity can create new tensions with regard to how to manage protected areas. We first offer a set of tensions that emerge in the light of the relational tu…
Understanding knowledge needs for Scotland to become a resilient Hydro Nation
Freshwater resources provide ecosystem services that support human prosperity and development. Future changes in climate, land-use, and population could lead to detrimental impacts on freshwater quality and quantity, threatening drinking water, irrigation and energy production. To increase resilience there is the need to better understand the possible impacts of future changes on freshwaters. We use Scotland – and its legislative agenda ‘Scotland…
Elucidating social-ecological perceptions of a protected area system in Interior Alaska
The Interior of Alaska is one of the few remaining places in the world with intact ecosystems. Protected areas in this region, particularly Denali National Park and Preserve and Denali State Park, are high-profile tourism destinations situated in a rural landscape that is inhabited by a diverse array of stakeholders. Public land management agencies are faced with the challenging task of engaging these rural residents in discussions about their re…
Contributions of Scottish community woodlands to local wellbeing before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has impaired wellbeing and highlighted the importance of open, local greenspaces in supporting healthy lifestyles and providing safe social spaces. Community woodlands, environments managed by and for communities, offer a wealth of individual and communal wellbeing benefits which are likely to have been affected by COVID-19 restrictions. A mixed-methods study, involving 31 semi-structured interviews and 765 questionnaire res…
Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship
Angelstam, P., M. Fedoriak, F. Cruz, J. Muñoz-Rojas, T. Yamelynets, M. Manton, C.-L. Washbourne, D. Dobrynin, Z. Izakovičova, N. Jansson, B. Jaroszewicz, R. Kanka, M. Kavtarishvili, L. Kopperoinen, M. Lazdinis, M. J. Metzger, D. Özüt, D. Pavloska Gjorgjieska, F. J. Sijtsma, N. Stryamets, A. Tolunay, T. Turkoglu, B. Van der Moolen, A. Zagidullina, and A. Zhuk. 2021. Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-Eu…
Learning from the 2018 heatwave in the context of climate change
To understand whether high temperatures and temperature extremes are important for climate change adaptation in Scotland, we place the 2018 heatwave in the context of past, present, and future climate, and provide a rapid but comprehensive impact analysis. The observed hottest day (d), 5 d, and 30 d period of 2018 and the 5 d period with the warmest nights had return periods of 5–15 years for 1950–2018. The warmest night and the maximum 30 d aver…
The real exchange rate, structural change, and female labor force participation
An evaluation of Scottish woodland grant schemes using site suitability modelling
Creating space, aligning motivations, and building trust
Schoonover, H. A., A. Grêt-Regamey, M. J. Metzger, A. Ruiz-Frau, M. Santos-Reis, S. S. K. Scholte, A. Walz, and K. A. Nicholas. 2019. Creating space, aligning motivations, and building trust: a practical framework for stakeholder engagement based on experience in 12 ecosystem services case studies. Ecology and Society 24(1):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10061-240111
Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe
Urban Land-Use Dynamics in the Niger Delta
Cities in developing countries are urbanising at a rapid rate, resulting in substantial pressures on environmental systems. Among the main factors that lead to flooding, controlling land-use change offers the greatest scope for the management of risk. However, traditional analysis of a “from–to” change matrix is not adequate to provide information of all the land-use changes that occur in a watershed. In this study, an in-depth analysis of land-u…
Understanding the integration of ecosystem services and natural capital in Scottish policy
Challenges for land system science
Developing qualitative scenario storylines for environmental change assessment
This article reviews the historic evolution of qualitative scenario storylines and the various methods used in their development and application in environmental change assessment. The scenario method largely emerged from military strategy and war planning, with the techniques being adopted and advanced further by the business sector. Scenario storylines became widely applied to environmental problems from the 1970s and since then a number of new…
A rural typology for strategic European policies
Potential impacts of climate change on tourism; a case study for Spain
The real exchange rate, structural change, and female labor force participation
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
A spatially explicit scenario-driven model of adaptive capacity to global change in Europe
Regional scale integrated land use planning to meet multiple objectives
Pressure is increasing globally to deliver integrated land use at large spatial scales (10–100 s km2) to address the climate and biodiversity emergencies through delivery of nature-based solutions. There is also pressure to decentralise land use decision-making to sub-national levels of government and multi-stakeholder partnerships, with the aim of improving policy targeting, coordination and participation. Whilst there has been significant resea…
Understanding the integration of ecosystem services and natural capital in Scottish policy
In danger of co-option
Community ownership and management of land has gained prominence in environmental policy discussions, especially within land restoration debates. Within Scotland, community land ownership is promoted as a means to give communities greater say over land use decisions, receive a greater share of the benefits from land, and help deliver a just transition to the government of Scotland’s net-zero targets. These goals are supported by legal mechanisms …
Navigating tensions in inclusive conservation
Inclusive conservation is promoted as a means to integrate stakeholders in nature, conservation. Despite several studies recognizing that inclusive conservation of protected areas may be challenging and requires explicitly addressing potential tensions between stakeholders, little research has unpacked how these tensions manifest in specific contexts. This paper aims to explore possible approaches for navigating tensions to improve the facilitati…
Glocal woodlands – The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland
As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector have pledged to restore landscapes through planting millions of hectares of forests. Private sector investment is to play a critical role in meeting these goals, through instruments such as biodiversity offsetting, philanthropy, voluntary carbon markets, sustain…
Understanding knowledge needs for Scotland to become a resilient Hydro Nation
Freshwater resources provide ecosystem services that support human prosperity and development. Future changes in climate, land-use, and population could lead to detrimental impacts on freshwater quality and quantity, threatening drinking water, irrigation and energy production. To increase resilience there is the need to better understand the possible impacts of future changes on freshwaters. We use Scotland – and its legislative agenda ‘Scotland…
Creating space, aligning motivations, and building trust
Schoonover, H. A., A. Grêt-Regamey, M. J. Metzger, A. Ruiz-Frau, M. Santos-Reis, S. S. K. Scholte, A. Walz, and K. A. Nicholas. 2019. Creating space, aligning motivations, and building trust: a practical framework for stakeholder engagement based on experience in 12 ecosystem services case studies. Ecology and Society 24(1):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10061-240111
How Personal Judgment Influences Scenario Development
Metzger, M. J., M. D. A. Rounsevell, H. Van den Heiligenberg, M. Pérez-Soba, and P. Soto Hardiman. 2010. How personal judgment influences scenario development: an example for future rural development in Europe. Ecology and Society 15(2): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03305-150205
Research note
The Jul'hoan people from lXaelxae, Botswana, have an active repertoire of songs accompanied by leg rattles and hand clapping that are part of what is known as a trance dance. It was found that a specific group of Jul'hoan people, who used a finite set of 12 songs, was able to identify a song in the majority of the cases by listening only to hand clapping. The participants suggested that 'speed' or 'relative pace' was diagnostic. This suggestion w…
Elucidating social-ecological perceptions of a protected area system in Interior Alaska
The Interior of Alaska is one of the few remaining places in the world with intact ecosystems. Protected areas in this region, particularly Denali National Park and Preserve and Denali State Park, are high-profile tourism destinations situated in a rural landscape that is inhabited by a diverse array of stakeholders. Public land management agencies are faced with the challenging task of engaging these rural residents in discussions about their re…
Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship
Angelstam, P., M. Fedoriak, F. Cruz, J. Muñoz-Rojas, T. Yamelynets, M. Manton, C.-L. Washbourne, D. Dobrynin, Z. Izakovičova, N. Jansson, B. Jaroszewicz, R. Kanka, M. Kavtarishvili, L. Kopperoinen, M. Lazdinis, M. J. Metzger, D. Özüt, D. Pavloska Gjorgjieska, F. J. Sijtsma, N. Stryamets, A. Tolunay, T. Turkoglu, B. Van der Moolen, A. Zagidullina, and A. Zhuk. 2021. Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-Eu…
Urban Land-Use Dynamics in the Niger Delta
Cities in developing countries are urbanising at a rapid rate, resulting in substantial pressures on environmental systems. Among the main factors that lead to flooding, controlling land-use change offers the greatest scope for the management of risk. However, traditional analysis of a “from–to” change matrix is not adequate to provide information of all the land-use changes that occur in a watershed. In this study, an in-depth analysis of land-u…
The ecosystem approach in ecological impact assessment
A qualitative method for the spatial and thematic downscaling of land-use change scenarios
Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe
Global change will alter the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. To investigate ecosystem service supply during the 21st century, we used a range of ecosystem models and scenarios of climate and land-use change to conduct a Europe-wide assessment. Large changes in climate and land use typically resulted in large changes in ecosystem service supply. Some of these trends may be positive (for example, increases in fores…
The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change
A coherent set of future land use change scenarios for Europe
Combining biodiversity modeling with political and economic development scenarios for 25 EU countries
Macis
The recently finished EU funded project MACIS reviewed observed and projected climate change impacts on biodiversity. It assessed mitigation and adaptation options. It also reviewed and developed methods to assess future impacts of climate change on biodiversity including the identification of policy options to prevent and minimise these impacts
Potential impacts of climate change on tourism; a case study for Spain
Developing qualitative scenario storylines for environmental change assessment
This article reviews the historic evolution of qualitative scenario storylines and the various methods used in their development and application in environmental change assessment. The scenario method largely emerged from military strategy and war planning, with the techniques being adopted and advanced further by the business sector. Scenario storylines became widely applied to environmental problems from the 1970s and since then a number of new…
A qualitative method for the spatial and thematic downscaling of land-use change scenarios
How Personal Judgment Influences Scenario Development
Metzger, M. J., M. D. A. Rounsevell, H. Van den Heiligenberg, M. Pérez-Soba, and P. Soto Hardiman. 2010. How personal judgment influences scenario development: an example for future rural development in Europe. Ecology and Society 15(2): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03305-150205
A rural typology for strategic European policies
Challenges for land system science
A spatially explicit scenario-driven model of adaptive capacity to global change in Europe
The Sociocultural Value of Upland Regions in the Vicinity of Cities in Comparison With Urban Green Spaces
Mountain and upland regions provide a wide range of ecosystem services to residents and visitors. While ecosystem research in mountain regions is on the rise, the linkages between sociocultural benefits and ecological systems remain little explored. Mountainous regions close to urban areas provide numerous benefits to a large number of individuals, suggesting a high social value, particularly for cultural ecosystem services. We explored and compa…
Understanding global climate change scenarios through bioclimate stratification
Despite progress in impact modelling, communicating and understanding the implications of climatic change projections is challenging due to inherent complexity and a cascade of uncertainty. In this letter, we present an alternative representation of global climate change projections based on shifts in 125 multivariate strata characterized by relatively homogeneous climate. These strata form climate analogues that help in the interpretation of cli…
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe
Urban Land-Use Dynamics in the Niger Delta
Cities in developing countries are urbanising at a rapid rate, resulting in substantial pressures on environmental systems. Among the main factors that lead to flooding, controlling land-use change offers the greatest scope for the management of risk. However, traditional analysis of a “from–to” change matrix is not adequate to provide information of all the land-use changes that occur in a watershed. In this study, an in-depth analysis of land-u…
Understanding the integration of ecosystem services and natural capital in Scottish policy
The ecosystem approach in ecological impact assessment
The real exchange rate, structural change, and female labor force participation
An evaluation of Scottish woodland grant schemes using site suitability modelling
Creating space, aligning motivations, and building trust
Schoonover, H. A., A. Grêt-Regamey, M. J. Metzger, A. Ruiz-Frau, M. Santos-Reis, S. S. K. Scholte, A. Walz, and K. A. Nicholas. 2019. Creating space, aligning motivations, and building trust: a practical framework for stakeholder engagement based on experience in 12 ecosystem services case studies. Ecology and Society 24(1):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10061-240111
Learning from the 2018 heatwave in the context of climate change
To understand whether high temperatures and temperature extremes are important for climate change adaptation in Scotland, we place the 2018 heatwave in the context of past, present, and future climate, and provide a rapid but comprehensive impact analysis. The observed hottest day (d), 5 d, and 30 d period of 2018 and the 5 d period with the warmest nights had return periods of 5–15 years for 1950–2018. The warmest night and the maximum 30 d aver…
Contributions of Scottish community woodlands to local wellbeing before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has impaired wellbeing and highlighted the importance of open, local greenspaces in supporting healthy lifestyles and providing safe social spaces. Community woodlands, environments managed by and for communities, offer a wealth of individual and communal wellbeing benefits which are likely to have been affected by COVID-19 restrictions. A mixed-methods study, involving 31 semi-structured interviews and 765 questionnaire res…
Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship
Angelstam, P., M. Fedoriak, F. Cruz, J. Muñoz-Rojas, T. Yamelynets, M. Manton, C.-L. Washbourne, D. Dobrynin, Z. Izakovičova, N. Jansson, B. Jaroszewicz, R. Kanka, M. Kavtarishvili, L. Kopperoinen, M. Lazdinis, M. J. Metzger, D. Özüt, D. Pavloska Gjorgjieska, F. J. Sijtsma, N. Stryamets, A. Tolunay, T. Turkoglu, B. Van der Moolen, A. Zagidullina, and A. Zhuk. 2021. Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-Eu…
Geography (30 obras) · Environmental resource management (29 obras) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (26 obras) · Ecology (23 obras) · Environmental planning (20 obras) · Political science (20 obras) · Environmental Science (19 obras) · Economics (16 obras) · Business (14 obras) · Climate change (14 obras)