20.500.12556/RUL-159392 Investigating potential supply of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes through efficiency analysis One of the paramount challenges in natural resource management revolves around the delicate equilibrium between the demand for and the supply of diverse Ecosystem Services (ESs) within a cultural landscape. Recognizing the centrality of cultural landscapes to human well-being, the sustainability of these landscapes hinges upon the health and stability of ecosystems that can effectively provide the required ESs. Over the long term, the sustainable supply of ESs is constrained by the potential supply of ESs. Understanding the potential supply of ESs is crucial for averting compromises to the ecosystems within a landscape. This article introduces a novel perspective on evaluating the ESs of a landscape by means of efficiency analysis. Instead of presenting the potential supply of ESs in absolute terms, we offer a comparative analysis of ESs' relative supply to associated management costs. In principle, the efficiency of Landscape Units (LUs) is defined as the ratio of the potential supply of multiple ESs to the costs associated with land use and land cover management. The resultant efficiency maps serve as hot and cold spot maps, revealing efficient ecosystem compositions that yield multiple ESs. This composition reflects management efforts, incorporating various management costs. Forests emerge as pivotal ecosystems in landscapes, delivering the most ESs at the lowest costs. These efficiency maps offer valuable insights for regional planners, enabling them to enhance the supply of ES in inefficient LUs by studying the ecosystem structure and associated costs of the most efficient LUs. ecosystem services multifunctionality data envelopment analysis tobit regression Slovenia ekosistemske storitve večnamenskost analiza podatkovne ovojnice tobit regresija Slovenija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-07-09 11:05:43 2024-07-09 11:05:49 2024-07-16 03:23:44 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 Str. 161–179 iss. 2 Vol. 74 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 630*9(497.4) 0364-152X 10.1007/s00267-024-01967-5 192345347 s00267-024-01967-5.pdf s00267-024-01967-5.pdf 1 438F751532F4127313BB754FF5E93D70 0c274e399c536e87e6e769283bac6a3a6a42d31b3c247ba814190e6b06ba5109 07ab2ef2-3dd3-11ef-8f74-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=187396 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-024-01967-5 1 7033c127-3dd2-11ef-8f74-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=187395 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0