To contribute to sustainable land management, there is a need for understanding the societal drivers behind land-owners’ and land managers’ decisions that influence the provision of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP). Drawing and expanding on the ecosystem service framework, the NCP framework explicitly acknowledges that these contributions are not only derived from nature but also require inputs from humans, a process known as “coproduction”.

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In the previous phase of Biodiversity Exploratories, the research project entitled 'Effects of land management on the Supply and Distribution of ecosystem services - ESuDis -' operationalised the concept of NCP co-production in the three Biodiversity Exploratories study sites and linkes the NCP co-production with the level of land-use intensity. 

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In VaNaTe, we will expand the focus of ESuDis by understanding the unknown interaction between two of the most important societal drivers that underpin land management: landowners and managers values of nature and NCP telecopying of NCP co-production.

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