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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Social and Political Aspects of Conflicts Around Ecosystem Services in the Okavango River Basin\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Stephanie Domptail, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Agricultural and Environmental Policy, Gießen, Germany, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{stephanie.domptail@agrar.uni-giessen.de}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Stephanie Domptail$^{1}$, Melissa Tello Acosta$^{2}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Agricultural and Environmental Policy, Germany}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{2}$Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Inst. for Agricultural Policy and Market Research, Germany}}}
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The interest in the governance of ecosystem services (ESS) increases as it becomes clear that trade"=offs among ESS stem from different perspectives and interests of stakeholders. These differences give ground to latent and revealed conflicts around the use of ESS. Processes of land use planning are affected by such conflicts. Yet, they often remain consultative in their level of involvement of the local stakeholders, and the power of stakeholders determines the outcome of the process. 



Scientists are suspecting this to be the case in land use planning processes in the Okavango River basin (ORB), southern Africa, a nearly pristine ecosystem where conservation stakes are high. Conflicts around the use of ecosystem services in the region are becoming unavoidable under the recent demographic growth and development aspirations. The umbrella conflict of conservation versus use of ESS shades several smaller and more specific conflicts around the use of natural resources but also conflicts in the social and governance sub"=systems, as well as a multitude of stakeholders and conflicts parties, active at various governance levels. Our contribution is to reveal all conflictual issues related to the use of ESS in the ORB, the linkages between resource use and social issues with the objective to create awareness for the governance of ESS management. By identifying marginal and main actors and their position in conflicts, we highlight who would profit from what ESS use, our second objective. Such information is a pre"=condition to the fair consideration of interests in land use planning processes. 



The conflict analysis is based on texts from interviews conducted with 80 stakeholders of the ORB in 2012 and 2013 at the local, provincial, national and transboundary level. Interviews concerned the perception of the stakeholders of the land use system and did not introduce the concepts of conflicts nor ESS. Thus stakeholders were free to talk about conflicts or not. We used the method of qualitative content analysis and the elements of conflict diagnosis as main coding categories. Results include a map of ESS and related conflicts and the identification of important governance stakes for land use planners. 



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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Conflicts, ESS, governance, southern Africa
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