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Erica Honeck
University of Geneva, Institute for Environmental Sciences, enviroSPACE Lab, Bd Carl-Vogt 66, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland

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Journal article
Published: 22 April 2021 in Ecosystem Services
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Boundary organizations are non-traditional structures that can foster transdisciplinary relationships and help catalyze the exchange of ideas, trust, and ultimately the implementation of scientific evidence into policy. Here, we describe GE-21, a group composed of researchers and public servants interested in promoting biodiversity and ecosystem services in Geneva, Switzerland, as an example of such a structure. GE-21 developed into a de facto social experiment for fostering inter- and transdisciplinary science and promoting nature-based policies. The results of two ecosystem-based projects carried by GE-21 were rapidly adopted into policy. Here, we provide a post-hoc narrative based on reports, interviews, and observations that collectively assess the merits and drawbacks of such structures for mainstreaming ecosystem services. We contend that the following five characteristics of this boundary organization may have facilitated its role as a conduit between academic research and public agencies: 1) projects proposing timely, relevant, and novel solutions to policy needs; 2) institutional support for applied interdisciplinary research; 3) a ‘safe space’ to express ideas and develop close relationships over time; 4) availability of high-quality spatial data at a relevant scale, and scientific capacity to treat them; 5) resources dedicated to communication.

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Erica Honeck; Louise Gallagher; Bertrand von Arx; Anthony Lehmann; Nicolas Wyler; Olga Villarrubia; Benjamin Guinaudeau; Martin A. Schlaepfer. Integrating ecosystem services into policymaking – A case study on the use of boundary organizations. Ecosystem Services 2021, 49, 101286 .

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Erica Honeck, Louise Gallagher, Bertrand von Arx, Anthony Lehmann, Nicolas Wyler, Olga Villarrubia, Benjamin Guinaudeau, Martin A. Schlaepfer. Integrating ecosystem services into policymaking – A case study on the use of boundary organizations. Ecosystem Services. 2021; 49 ():101286.

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Erica Honeck; Louise Gallagher; Bertrand von Arx; Anthony Lehmann; Nicolas Wyler; Olga Villarrubia; Benjamin Guinaudeau; Martin A. Schlaepfer. 2021. "Integrating ecosystem services into policymaking – A case study on the use of boundary organizations." Ecosystem Services 49, no. : 101286.

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Published: 28 October 2020 in SN Applied Sciences
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Nature forms interdependent networks in a landscape, which is key to the survival of species and the maintenance of genetic diversity. Nature provides crucial socio-economic benefits to people, but they are typically undervalued in political decisions. This has led to the concept of Green Infrastructure (GI), which defines an interlinked network of (semi-)natural areas with high ecological values for wildlife and people, to be conserved and managed in priority to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem services. This relatively new concept has been used in different contexts, but with widely diverging interpretations. There is no apparent consensus in the scientific literature on the methodology to map and implement GI. This paper serves as an informed primer for researchers that are new to GI mapping understand the key principles and terminology for the needs of their own case-study, and as a framework for more advance researchers willing to contribute to the formalization of the concept. Through a literature review of articles on creating GI networks, we summarized and evaluated commonly used methods to identify and map GI. We provided key insights for the assessment of diversity, ecosystem services and landscape connectivity, the three ‘pillars’ on which GI identification is based according to its definition. Based on this literature review, we propose 5 theoretical levels toward a more complex, reliable and integrative approach to identify GI networks. We then discuss the applications and limits of such method and point out future challenges for GI identification and implementation.

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Erica Honeck; Arthur Sanguet; Martin A. Schlaepfer; Nicolas Wyler; Anthony Lehmann. Methods for identifying green infrastructure. SN Applied Sciences 2020, 2, 1 -25.

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Erica Honeck, Arthur Sanguet, Martin A. Schlaepfer, Nicolas Wyler, Anthony Lehmann. Methods for identifying green infrastructure. SN Applied Sciences. 2020; 2 (11):1-25.

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Erica Honeck; Arthur Sanguet; Martin A. Schlaepfer; Nicolas Wyler; Anthony Lehmann. 2020. "Methods for identifying green infrastructure." SN Applied Sciences 2, no. 11: 1-25.

Journal article
Published: 13 February 2020 in Sustainability
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The concept of green infrastructure (GI) seeks to identify and prioritize areas of high ecological value for wildlife and people, to improve the integration of natural values in landscape planning decisions. In 2018, the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, established a roadmap for biodiversity conservation, which includes the operationalization of GI covering 30% of the territory by 2030. In this paper, we demonstrate a GI mapping framework in the canton of Geneva. Our approach is based on the combined assessment of three ‘pillars’, namely species’ distribution, landscape structure and connectivity, and ecosystem services, to optimize the allocation of conservation actions using the spatial prioritization software, Zonation. The identified priority conservation areas closely overlap existing natural reserves. Including the three pillars in the landscape prioritization should also improve adhesion to the GI idea, without undermining the protection of threatened species. With regards to land use planning, public and private land parcels with high values for GI may require specific incentives to maintain their desirable characteristics, as they are more likely to be degraded than areas with more building restrictions. Visualizing priority conservation areas in a spatially explicit manner will support decision-makers in Geneva to optimally allocate limited resources for ecosystem preservation.

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Erica Honeck; Atte Moilanen; Benjamin P. Guinaudeau; Nicolas Wyler; Martin Schlaepfer; Pascal Martin; Arthur Sanguet; Loreto Urbina; Bertrand Von Arx; Joëlle Massy; Claude Fischer; Anthony Lehmann. Implementing Green Infrastructure for the Spatial Planning of Peri-Urban Areas in Geneva, Switzerland. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1387 .

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Erica Honeck, Atte Moilanen, Benjamin P. Guinaudeau, Nicolas Wyler, Martin Schlaepfer, Pascal Martin, Arthur Sanguet, Loreto Urbina, Bertrand Von Arx, Joëlle Massy, Claude Fischer, Anthony Lehmann. Implementing Green Infrastructure for the Spatial Planning of Peri-Urban Areas in Geneva, Switzerland. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (4):1387.

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Erica Honeck; Atte Moilanen; Benjamin P. Guinaudeau; Nicolas Wyler; Martin Schlaepfer; Pascal Martin; Arthur Sanguet; Loreto Urbina; Bertrand Von Arx; Joëlle Massy; Claude Fischer; Anthony Lehmann. 2020. "Implementing Green Infrastructure for the Spatial Planning of Peri-Urban Areas in Geneva, Switzerland." Sustainability 12, no. 4: 1387.

Journal article
Published: 24 November 2018 in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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Forests represent important habitats for species and provide multiple ecosystem services for human well-being. Preserving forests and other terrestrial ecosystems has become crucial to halt desertification, land degradation, and biodiversity loss worldwide, and is also one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. Remote sensing could greatly contribute to measuring progress toward SDGs by providing consistent and repetitive coverage of large areas, as well as information in various wavelengths, which facilitates the monitoring of environmental trends at various scales. This paper focuses on SDG indicator 15.1.1—“Forest area as a percentage of total land area” to demonstrate the potential of Earth Observation Data Cubes for SDGs. The approach presented here uses Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) stored in the Swiss Data Cube, and offers a complementary method to ground-based approaches to monitor Switzerland’s forest extent based on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). The proposed method performs time-series analyses to extract a forest/non-forest map and a graph representing the trend of SDG 15.1.1 indicator over time. Preliminary results suggest that this approach can identify similar forest extent and growth patterns to observed trends, and can therefore help monitor progress toward the selected SDG indicator more effectively.

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Erica Honeck; Roberto Castello; Bruno Chatenoux; Jean-Philippe Richard; Anthony Lehmann; Gregory Giuliani. From a Vegetation Index to a Sustainable Development Goal Indicator: Forest Trend Monitoring Using Three Decades of Earth Observations across Switzerland. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2018, 7, 455 .

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Erica Honeck, Roberto Castello, Bruno Chatenoux, Jean-Philippe Richard, Anthony Lehmann, Gregory Giuliani. From a Vegetation Index to a Sustainable Development Goal Indicator: Forest Trend Monitoring Using Three Decades of Earth Observations across Switzerland. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2018; 7 (12):455.

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Erica Honeck; Roberto Castello; Bruno Chatenoux; Jean-Philippe Richard; Anthony Lehmann; Gregory Giuliani. 2018. "From a Vegetation Index to a Sustainable Development Goal Indicator: Forest Trend Monitoring Using Three Decades of Earth Observations across Switzerland." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7, no. 12: 455.