Conclusion
Adaptive strategies are the basis for sustainable land use management. Spatial planning processes aimed at the development of such sustainable strategies influence the structures of communities and ecosystems. For these reasons, the development of new land use management strategies requires a well-balanced framework which takes both social and ecological issues into account. This paper developed a guideline which integrates both the social impacts of interventions and the ecosystem services affected by interventions into a participatory process. This planning and assessment guideline assists in understanding the interests and needs of the wider community and integrating stakeholders into the planning process. As we have seen, stakeholders’ views and needs are crucial in developing a local planning framework through multi-step informal processes. The advantages of an aggregation of the ecosystem services approach with social impact assessment are suggested to be related to the following points: