A review of economic approaches modeling the complex interactions between forest management and watershed services

Ovando, Paola; Brouwer, Roy

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2018.12.007

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“…One review pointed out that many studies, especially in developing countries, fail to specify baseline conditions to which cost-effectiveness evaluations are made. This is partly due to a shortage of available georeferenced data on agriculture management, costs and prices (Ovando and Brouwer, 2019). Data shortage also risks misinterpreting conservation vis-a-vis production interests (sparing versus sharing debates), where the historical management contexts are required to understand the ecological values and trade-offs (Angelstam and Lazdinis, 2017;Naumov et al, 2018), not the least in the light of potential tenure issues (FAO, 2016b;Carter et al, 2017;Borelli et al, 2019).…”

Section: Economic Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

NBS Framework for Agricultural Landscapes

Simelton¹,

Carew-Reid²,

Coulier³

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Entering the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, interventions referred to as nature-based solutions (NBS) are at the forefront of the sustainability discourse. While applied in urban, natural forest or wetland ecosystems, they are underutilized in agricultural landscapes. This paper presents a technical framework to characterise NBS in agricultural systems. NBS in the agriculture sector is proposed as “the use of natural processes or elements to improve ecosystem functions of environments and landscapes affected by agricultural practices, and to enhance livelihoods and other social and cultural functions, over various temporal and spatial scales.” The framework emerges from a review of 188 peer-reviewed articles on NBS and green infrastructure published between 2015 and 2019 and three international expert consultations organized in 2019–2020. The framework establishes four essential functions for NBS in agriculture: 1) Sustainable practices — with a focus on production; 2) Green Infrastructure — mainly for engineering purposes such as water and soil, and slope stabilization; 3) Amelioration — for restoration of conditions for plants, water, soil or air and climate change mitigation; and 4) Conservation — focusing on biodiversity and ecosystem connectivity. The framework connects the conventional divide between production and conservation to add functionality, purpose and scale in project design. The review confirmed limited evidence of NBS in agricultural systems particularly in developing country contexts, although specific technologies feature under other labels. Consultations indicated that wider adoption will require a phased approach to generate evidence, while integrating NBS in national and local policies and agricultural development strategies. The paper concludes with recommended actions required to facilitate such processes.

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Section: Economic Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

NBS Framework for Agricultural Landscapes

Simelton¹,

Carew-Reid²,

Coulier³

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Consequently, ecosystem services are the multitude of benefits that nature brings to society. Among other intrinsic benefits to ecosystem services, those that stand out are: (i) making human life possible by providing nutritious food and clean water; (ii) regulate diseases and climate; (iii) support crop pollination and soil formation; and (iv) they offer recreational, cultural, and spiritual benefits [70][71][72].…”

Section: Ecosystem Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research

Abad-Segura

González-Zamar

Vázquez‐Cano

et al. 2020

Forests

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Research Highlights: the wide variety of multispectral sensors that currently exist make it possible to improve the study of forest systems and ecosystem services. Background and Objectives: this study aims to analyze the current usefulness of remote sensing in forest management and ecosystem services sciences, and to identify future lines of research on these issues worldwide during the period 1976–2019. Materials and Methods: a bibliometric technique is applied to 2066 articles published between 1976 and 2019 on these topics to find findings on scientific production and key subject areas. Results: scientific production has increased annually, so that in the last five years, 50.34% of all articles have been published. The thematic areas in which more articles were linked were environmental science, agricultural, and biological sciences, and earth and planetary sciences. Seven lines of research have been identified that generate contributions on this topic. In addition, the analysis of the relevance of the keywords has detected the ten main future directions of research. The growing worldwide trend of scientific production shows interest in developing aspects of this field of study. Conclusions: this study contributes to the academic, scientific, and institutional discussion to improve decision-making, and proposes new scenarios and uses of this technology to improve the administration and management of forest resources.

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“…Numerous review articles have covered several approaches for the assessment of HMH and their management strategies. A majority of these articles focused on the monitoring methods for NBS assessment ( Kumar et al, 2021 ), HMRs mapping and damage assessment ( Teng et al, 2017 ; Khan et al, 2020 ; Sahani et al, 2019 ), life cycle appraisals including the economic valuation of ecosystem services ( Newman et al, 2017 ; Eckhardt et al, 2019 ; Ovando and Brouwer, 2019 ; Nguyen et al, 2020 ), assessment frameworks for NBS ( Dumitru et al, 2020 ; Shah et al, 2020 ), upscaling and replication of NBS ( Saleh and Weinstein, 2016 ), and real-time forecasting of HMHs and/or HMRs. Zhang and Chui (2019) reviewed and presented models to evaluate the performance of green infrastructure in reducing runoff.…”

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Nature-based solutions efficiency evaluation against natural hazards: Modelling methods, advantages and limitations

Kumar

Debele

Sahani

et al. 2021

Science of The Total Environment

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Nature-based solutions (NBS) for hydro-meteorological risks (HMRs) reduction and management are becoming increasingly popular, but challenges such as the lack of well-recognised standard methodologies to evaluate their performance and upscale their implementation remain. We systematically evaluate the current state-of-the art on the models and tools that are utilised for the optimum allocation, design and efficiency evaluation of NBS for five HMRs (flooding, droughts, heatwaves, landslides, and storm surges and coastal erosion). We found that methods to assess the complex issue of NBS efficiency and cost-benefits analysis are still in the development stage and they have only been implemented through the methodologies developed for other purposes such as fluid dynamics models in micro and catchment scale contexts. Of the reviewed numerical models and tools MIKE-SHE, SWMM (for floods), ParFlow-TREES, ACRU, SIMGRO (for droughts), WRF, ENVI-met (for heatwaves), FUNWAVE-TVD, BROOK90 (for landslides), TELEMAC and ADCIRC (for storm surges) are more flexible to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of specific NBS such as wetlands, ponds, trees, parks, grass, green roof/walls, tree roots, vegetations, coral reefs, mangroves, sea grasses, oyster reefs, sea salt marshes, sandy beaches and dunes. We conclude that the models and tools that are capable of assessing the multiple benefits, particularly the performance and cost-effectiveness of NBS for HMR reduction and management are not readily available. Thus, our synthesis of modelling methods can facilitate their selection that can maximise opportunities and refute the current political hesitation of NBS deployment compared with grey solutions for HMR management but also for the provision of a wide range of social and economic co-benefits. However, there is still a need for bespoke modelling tools that can holistically assess the various components of NBS from an HMR reduction and management perspective. Such tools can facilitate impact assessment modelling under different NBS scenarios to build a solid evidence base for upscaling and replicating the implementation of NBS.

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A review of economic approaches modeling the complex interactions between forest management and watershed services

Cited by 24 publications

References 68 publications

NBS Framework for Agricultural Landscapes

NBS Framework for Agricultural Landscapes

Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research

Nature-based solutions efficiency evaluation against natural hazards: Modelling methods, advantages and limitations

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