Projects - EL (Elsa) Dingkuhn MSc

Functional Land Management governance: identifying transition pathways for sustainable land management. A comparative analysis of case studies from Ireland, Pennsylvania (US) and the Philippines.

The overarching objective of this project is to determine transition pathways for sustainability that consider both the variable capacity of the land to delivery food and other ecosystem services and the diverging stakeholder demands on the land along with scope for such pathways to be supported in an augmented reality module. Transition pathways include identifying tailored policy-mixes with scope to foster desirable land-use change based on a comparative analysis of three contrasting case-studies from the US (Pennsylvania), the EU (Ireland), and South-East Asia (the Philippines).

The first phase of this project (currently ongoing) is to (i) inventory the different Governance Mechanisms and Insrtuments (GMIs) that influence land use, and (ii) assess how they affect land use and, as such, the delivery of ecosytsem services (or soil functions).

Methods: Mixed Methods, Systematic reviews, Social Network Analysis, Signals Analysis, Geographical Information System, Qmethod, Functional Land Management framework, Systematic Coding, Inductive Coding