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Marta Sylla
Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Spatial Management, Grunwaldzka 55, 50-357 Wrocław, Poland

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Short communication
Published: 14 July 2021 in Ecosystem Services
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The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA) represents a crucial approach to incorporate the assessment of the sustainable use of natural resources and ecosystems into decision- and policy-making. However, its application is constrained by challenges distinct across specific implementation contexts, including those present in developing nations. In this paper, we focus on a pilot SEEA EEA application in a local-scale case study in Kyzyl Unkur, Jalal-Abad region, the Kyrgyz Republic, characterized by a unique natural walnut forest. We summarize key methodological and empirical challenges identified through collaboration with local experts and stakeholders during the compilation of Supply and Use tables for selected ecosystem services (ES) relevant at local, national and global levels. Specifically, we focus on the methodological challenges related to a) defining and assigning benefits for own consumption; b) delineating the chain of ES flows (e.g., fodder for farm animals); c) uncovering the relevance of carbon sequestration in developing nation contexts which are often minor greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters and demand for the service lies mostly beyond their boundaries. Among empirical challenges, we highlight the issues of data collection and availability. The aim of this communication is to provide lessons learnt from building SEEA EEA accounts in a developing, data-scarce context, potentially transferable to other similar applications.

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Marta Sylla; Zuzana V. Harmáčková; Ioanna Grammatikopoulou; Charlotte Whitham; Adam Pártl; Davina Vačkářová. Methodological and empirical challenges of SEEA EEA in developing contexts: Towards ecosystem service accounts in the Kyrgyz Republic. Ecosystem Services 2021, 50, 101333 .

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Marta Sylla, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Ioanna Grammatikopoulou, Charlotte Whitham, Adam Pártl, Davina Vačkářová. Methodological and empirical challenges of SEEA EEA in developing contexts: Towards ecosystem service accounts in the Kyrgyz Republic. Ecosystem Services. 2021; 50 ():101333.

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Marta Sylla; Zuzana V. Harmáčková; Ioanna Grammatikopoulou; Charlotte Whitham; Adam Pártl; Davina Vačkářová. 2021. "Methodological and empirical challenges of SEEA EEA in developing contexts: Towards ecosystem service accounts in the Kyrgyz Republic." Ecosystem Services 50, no. : 101333.

Journal article
Published: 16 June 2020 in Environmental Science & Policy
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In peri-urban areas ecosystem services (ES), such as food and biomass production, water regulation and nutrient cycling, are influenced by various increasing demands for food, recreation and housing. Spatial development policies address these demands by increasing housing and commercial site areas on the expense of agricultural lands. In the fragmented peri-urban landscapes the analysis of ES trade-off and synergies supports planners and decision makers to account for the provision of ES and the interrelations between them. Therefore, the objective of this work is to examine how ES trade-off analysis can support applying peri-urban spatial policy. The aim is to analyse the spatial distribution of ES and their level of provision and identify ES synergies and trade-offs in relation to a spatial (development) plan. Because peri-urban ES provided by agricultural lands are linked to soils, soils are included in a spatial analysis of ES trade-offs as location factor. Peri-urban municipalities of Wroclaw in Poland are taken as a case study to analyse interactions between the following ES: food provision, biomass production, water regulation, nutrient cycling, physical recreation, aesthetic features of agricultural landscapes. The correlation analysis results show that the biggest trade-off occurs between the aesthetic features and the food provision, while the biggest synergies exist between biomass and food provision, as well as between recreational potential and nutrient cycling. The hotspot and principal component analysis results reveal a trade-off relation between built-up areas and Natura 2000 sites, generating hotspots of ES provision. We conclude that ES interactions need to be carefully managed, following the integration of different policy fields at regional and local levels, to sustain ES provision at peri-urban areas.

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Marta Sylla; Nina Hagemann; Szymon Szewrański. Mapping trade-offs and synergies among peri-urban ecosystem services to address spatial policy. Environmental Science & Policy 2020, 112, 79 -90.

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Marta Sylla, Nina Hagemann, Szymon Szewrański. Mapping trade-offs and synergies among peri-urban ecosystem services to address spatial policy. Environmental Science & Policy. 2020; 112 ():79-90.

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Marta Sylla; Nina Hagemann; Szymon Szewrański. 2020. "Mapping trade-offs and synergies among peri-urban ecosystem services to address spatial policy." Environmental Science & Policy 112, no. : 79-90.

Journal article
Published: 09 April 2020 in Land Use Policy
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Peri-urban landscapes (PULs) are specific transitional forms of urban landscapes undergoing dynamic land-use changes. PULs’ transformations are driven by close and significant influence of an urban core, cross-administrative boundary character, and diversity of governance actors. PULs have significant potential to provide ES and respond to the urban and peri-urban demand for ES, but they are also particular contexts where significant and different ES trade-offs can occur. Majority of existing forms of governance are not able to deal and address such trade-offs, which thus call for more innovative and effective governance approaches and mechanisms, aimed at achieving ES synergies and reducing ES conflicts. This paper discusses the characteristics of PULs in the context of governance questions related to the management of ES trade-offs in the urban peripheries. The drivers of ES trade-offs are presented and different trade-off relationships between and within the main ES types are analyzed. The paper drafts a way forward from the current state-of-the-art related to governance of peri-urban ES trade-offs by providing recommendations for more effective governance that would address these trade-offs. Due to the very dynamic character of PULs, it is difficult to manage land-use changes and ES trade-offs. Hence, the governance approaches need to be adaptive and integrative at multiple levels, while engaging diverse actors to balance ES trade-offs that have mixed urban and rural character.

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Marcin Spyra; Daniele La Rosa; Ingo Zasada; Marta Sylla; Anton Shkaruba. Governance of ecosystem services trade-offs in peri-urban landscapes. Land Use Policy 2020, 95, 104617 .

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Marcin Spyra, Daniele La Rosa, Ingo Zasada, Marta Sylla, Anton Shkaruba. Governance of ecosystem services trade-offs in peri-urban landscapes. Land Use Policy. 2020; 95 ():104617.

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Marcin Spyra; Daniele La Rosa; Ingo Zasada; Marta Sylla; Anton Shkaruba. 2020. "Governance of ecosystem services trade-offs in peri-urban landscapes." Land Use Policy 95, no. : 104617.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2020 in Water Resources and Economics
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Ioanna Grammatikopoulou; Marta Sylla; Christos Zoumides. Economic evaluation of green water in cereal crop production: A production function approach. Water Resources and Economics 2020, 29, 1 .

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Ioanna Grammatikopoulou, Marta Sylla, Christos Zoumides. Economic evaluation of green water in cereal crop production: A production function approach. Water Resources and Economics. 2020; 29 ():1.

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Ioanna Grammatikopoulou; Marta Sylla; Christos Zoumides. 2020. "Economic evaluation of green water in cereal crop production: A production function approach." Water Resources and Economics 29, no. : 1.

Research article
Published: 07 June 2019 in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
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Undermined by the increasing urban sprawl as well as intensification of agricultural production, the urban–rural fringe agricultural landscapes face challenges of ensuring viable food production, reducing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss, as well as sustaining rural development. Policies and strategies such as the Common Agricultural Policy, the European Landscape Convention and Biodiversity Strategy address these problems in their objectives, but they are based on different concepts regarding landscape functions and ecosystem services. To provide planners with a comprehensive landscape valuation framework, we refer to the policy objectives by assessing three rural landscape functions: environmental balance, food production and providing vital space to live, and tourist businesses with the use of landscape indicators and ecosystem services. We introduce the criteria of vulnerability to landscape changes, legal environmental protection, cultural heritage, scenic variety, and clarity to assess landscape values and water purification and retention, food production and recreational potential to assess ecosystem services. The results encourage the combination of the two approaches, since in a well-structured framework they complement each other in terms of covering different aspects of landscape value. An integrated approach to landscape assessment enables the picturing of more diverse values, and can better inform landscape and spatial planners. The novelty of this research is the use of landscape units as the basis for the application of ecosystem service and landscape valuation integrated assessment at the level that matches the scale of land use policy on the municipality level.

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Marta Sylla; Iga Solecka. Highly valued agricultural landscapes and their ecosystem services in the urban-rural fringe – an integrated approach. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2019, 63, 883 -911.

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Marta Sylla, Iga Solecka. Highly valued agricultural landscapes and their ecosystem services in the urban-rural fringe – an integrated approach. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 2019; 63 (5):883-911.

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Marta Sylla; Iga Solecka. 2019. "Highly valued agricultural landscapes and their ecosystem services in the urban-rural fringe – an integrated approach." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 63, no. 5: 883-911.

Conference paper
Published: 22 May 2019 in Engineering for Rural Development
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Szymon Szewranski; Marian Kachniarz; Marta Sylla; Malgorzata Swiader; Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak. Spatio-temporal assessment of energy consumption and socio-economic drivers in rural areas in Poland. Engineering for Rural Development 2019, 1 .

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Szymon Szewranski, Marian Kachniarz, Marta Sylla, Malgorzata Swiader, Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak. Spatio-temporal assessment of energy consumption and socio-economic drivers in rural areas in Poland. Engineering for Rural Development. 2019; ():1.

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Szymon Szewranski; Marian Kachniarz; Marta Sylla; Malgorzata Swiader; Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak. 2019. "Spatio-temporal assessment of energy consumption and socio-economic drivers in rural areas in Poland." Engineering for Rural Development , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 22 January 2019 in Sustainability
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Ecosystems provide services that contribute to the well-being of people living within a city’s borders and on the urban–rural fringe. While benefits from green areas in urban settings are well investigated, peri-urban areas are significantly less addressed by researchers than cities. This study aims to evaluate the importance of environmental amenities in peri-urban areas using the hedonic pricing method to assess people’s willingness to pay for environmental goods and services. A local regression model (geographically weighted regression) and two global regression models (generalized spatial two-stage least squares and ordinary least square) are used to identify the spatial patterns and level of influence of protected areas, forests, rivers, trees, and landscape diversity. This paper includes the Central European case study example of a peri-urban area of the city of Wroclaw, Poland. The results from the three models show that out of all of the environmental amenities included in this study, proximity to protected areas—such as Natura 2000 sites and landscape parks—and the diversity of land-use patches within the 500-m radius around the sites exert the strongest influence on plot prices. The overall impact of environmental amenities on vacant plot prices in peri-urban areas is low or, as in the case of river and streams, not significant. The results of the analysis reveal the preferences of the new peri-urban inhabitants concerning green spaces that have an effect on the real estate market in Poland.

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Marta Sylla; Tadeusz Lasota; Szymon Szewrański. Valuing Environmental Amenities in Peri-Urban Areas: Evidence from Poland. Sustainability 2019, 11, 570 .

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Marta Sylla, Tadeusz Lasota, Szymon Szewrański. Valuing Environmental Amenities in Peri-Urban Areas: Evidence from Poland. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (3):570.

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Marta Sylla; Tadeusz Lasota; Szymon Szewrański. 2019. "Valuing Environmental Amenities in Peri-Urban Areas: Evidence from Poland." Sustainability 11, no. 3: 570.

Conference paper
Published: 01 October 2017 in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
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The developments in suburban areas are changing the peri-urban landscape, by transforming the agricultural land into discontinuous urban fabric. Tracking these changes requires different approaches. The aim of the research is to identify the spatial development of suburban zone with the use of the spatial information-based approach of estimating the location of suburban plots. The authors introduced parameters describing the building plots for single family housing in the suburban areas on the example of the surrounding municipalities of the city of Wrocław, Poland. Landscape metrics tools were used to delineate the suburban plots not identified by Corine Land Cover 2012. The results were verified with the use of the prices and values register for real estates. The results show that there is an increasing pressure on farmland conversion into suburban areas expressed by the number of transactions and the total areas of sold housing plots. The plots that have been purchased for the single-family housing between 2004 and 2016 constitute about 10 % of all existing plots. About 42 % of suburban properties are designed in the distance not exceeding 3 km from the existing settlements; they are, however, not connected by infrastructure with other build-up areas.

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Iga Solecka; Marta Sylla; Małgorzata Świąder. Urban Sprawl Impact on Farmland Conversion in Suburban Area of Wroclaw, Poland. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2017, 245, 072002 .

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Iga Solecka, Marta Sylla, Małgorzata Świąder. Urban Sprawl Impact on Farmland Conversion in Suburban Area of Wroclaw, Poland. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2017; 245 (7):072002.

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Iga Solecka; Marta Sylla; Małgorzata Świąder. 2017. "Urban Sprawl Impact on Farmland Conversion in Suburban Area of Wroclaw, Poland." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 245, no. 7: 072002.

Book chapter
Published: 15 October 2016 in Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
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Nowadays there are different technologies enabling visualisation of spatial data. The combination of two different systems may enhance the visualisations and therefore better communication of the results to decision makers and the wider public. The aim of our contribution is to assess the possibility of combining the functionality of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Business Intelligence (BI) systems for spatial data visualisation. We assess the analytical and visualisation features of combined ESRI ArcGIS and BI Tableau systems with the use of the visual data exploration approach. For the purpose of this study, Geographic Information System is used as a data manager and a data blender. The geoprocessed feature class was stored in the personal geodatabase and then loaded into the Tableau environment. We present the selected functionality of visual data discovery on the example of land change flows in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. In order to highlight the possibility to conduct analyses on different spatial levels, we ran the simulation at the local level and aggregated it to the regional level. The use of computational capabilities of GIS and BI enhance the geovisualisation on the map by quantitative analysis of tabular data, facilitate the visualisation of the results, and improve communication.

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Szymon Szewrański; Jan Kazak; Marta Sylla; Małgorzata Świąder. Spatial Data Analysis with the Use of ArcGIS and Tableau Systems. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography 2016, 337 -349.

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Szymon Szewrański, Jan Kazak, Marta Sylla, Małgorzata Świąder. Spatial Data Analysis with the Use of ArcGIS and Tableau Systems. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. 2016; ():337-349.

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Szymon Szewrański; Jan Kazak; Marta Sylla; Małgorzata Świąder. 2016. "Spatial Data Analysis with the Use of ArcGIS and Tableau Systems." Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography , no. : 337-349.

Journal article
Published: 20 December 2015 in Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
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This article aims to analyse the current state of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as an example of a short food supply chain in Poland in terms of the characteristics of the farms, spatial distribution of the producers and consumers of food, and principles of operation of the CSA groups. The analysis is based on the survey data collected through telephone interviews. The results indicate a rapid increase in the number of CSA groups. CSA groups operate mainly in large cities. Their principles of operation vary; however, the common element is that consumers prepay for organic high-quality produce at the beginning of growing season. Celem artykułu jest analiza obecnego stanu Rolnictwa Wspieranego przez Społeczność (RWS) jako przykładu krótkiego łańcucha dostaw żywności w Polsce. W artykule dokonano charakterystyki gospodarstw rolnych zaangażowanych w model RWS, oceniono przestrzenne rozmieszczenie producentów i konsumentów żywności oraz omówiono zasady działania grup RWS. Analizy przeprowadzono w oparciu o dane ankietowe zebrane przy wykorzystaniu metody wywiadu telefonicznego. Wyniki badań wskazują na dynamiczny wzrost liczby grup RWS, składających się z grupy konsumentów i rolników w Polsce. Grupy konsumentów funkcjonują przede wszystkim w dużych miastach. Ich zasady działania różnią się, lecz elementem wspólnym są dokonywane przez konsumentów przedpłaty za otrzymywane ekologiczne produkty żywnościowe wysokiej jakości na sezon.

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Marta Sylla; Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu; Julia Olszewska; Małgorzata Świąder; Independent Researcher. STATUS AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE IN POLAND AS AN EXAMPLE OF SHORT FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN. Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development 2015, 16, 201 -207.

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Marta Sylla, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu, Julia Olszewska, Małgorzata Świąder, Independent Researcher. STATUS AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE IN POLAND AS AN EXAMPLE OF SHORT FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN. Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development. 2015; 16 (1):201-207.

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Marta Sylla; Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu; Julia Olszewska; Małgorzata Świąder; Independent Researcher. 2015. "STATUS AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE IN POLAND AS AN EXAMPLE OF SHORT FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN." Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development 16, no. 1: 201-207.