Adapting Human Well-being Frameworks for Ecosystem Service Assessments across Diverse Landscapes

Villamagna, Amy M.; Giesecke, Craig

doi:10.5751/es-06173-190111

Cited by 36 publications

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“…Huntsinger and Oviedo use a multiscale approach, comprising pasture, range, and landscape scales, to demonstrate that notwithstanding historic frictions and mistrust, the farmer and the conservationist have many common interests and concerns; indeed the farm's continued profitability and the resilience of the ecosystem are fully codependent. Vallés et al (2014) and Villamagna and Giesecke (2014) are interested in questions of identification and classification with regard to ecosystem services in concrete landscapes. Vallés et al embrace the term landscape for its particular suitability to express the contextual interdependence and inherent inseparability of humans and nature.…”

Section: Integrating Landscape Into the Ecosystem Services Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes

Plieninger¹,

Horst²,

Schleyer³

et al. 2014

E&S

125

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ABSTRACT. Classical conservation approaches focus on the man-made degradation of ecosystems and tend to neglect the socialecological values that human land uses have imprinted on many environments. Throughout the world, ingenious land-use practices have generated unique cultural landscapes, but these are under pressure from agricultural intensification, land abandonment, and urbanization. In recent years, the cultural landscapes concept has been broadly adopted in science, policy, and management. The interest in both outstanding and vernacular landscapes finds expression in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, the European Landscape Convention, and the IUCN Protected Landscape Approach. These policies promote the protection, management, planning, and governance of cultural landscapes. The ecosystem services approach is a powerful framework to guide such efforts, but has rarely been applied in landscape research and management. With this paper, we introduce a special feature that aims to enhance the theoretical, empirical and practical knowledge of how to safeguard the resilience of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes. It concludes (1) that the usefulness of the ecosystem services approach to the analysis and management of cultural landscapes should be reviewed more critically; (2) that conventional ecosystem services assessment needs to be complemented by socio-cultural valuation; (3) that cultural landscapes are inherently changing, so that a dynamic view on ecosystem services and a focus on drivers of landscape change are needed; and (4) that managing landscapes for ecosystem services provision may benefit from a social-ecological resilience perspective.

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Section: Integrating Landscape Into the Ecosystem Services Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes

Plieninger¹,

Horst²,

Schleyer³

et al. 2014

E&S

125

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“…We chose to focus on the APB because the livelihoods of people there are closely tied to ecosystems and natural resources. Fishing, timber harvest, and farming provide signifi cant sources of income and interviews with APB stakeholders suggest strong ties to the environment (Villamagna and Giesecke 2014 ).…”

Section: Case Studies Of Methods To Evaluate Capacity For Freshwater Esmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Methodology for Quantifying and Mapping Ecosystem Services Provided by Watersheds

Villamagna

Angermeier

2015

Ecosystem Services and River Basin Ecohydrology

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Watershed processes -physical, chemical, and biological -are the foundation for many benefi ts that ecosystems provide for human societies. A crucial step toward accurately representing those benefi ts, so they can ultimately inform decisions about land and water management, is the development of a coherent methodology that can translate available data into the ecosystem services (ES) produced by watersheds. Ecosystem services (ES) provide an instinctive way to understand the tradeoffs associated with natural resource management. We provide a synthesis of common terminology and explain a rationale and framework for distinguishing among the components of ecosystem service delivery, including: an ecosystem's capacity to produce a service; societal demand for the service; ecological pressures on this service; and fl ow of the service to people. We discuss how interpretation and measurement of these components can differ among provisioning, regulating, and cultural services and describe selected methods for quantifying ES components as well as constraints on data availability. We also present several case studies to illustrate our methods, including mapping capacity of several water purifi cation services and demand for two forms of wildlife-based recreation, and discuss future directions for ecosystem service assessments. Our fl exible framework treats service capacity, demand, ecological pressure, and fl ow as separate but interactive entities to better evaluate the sustainability of service provision across space and time and to help guide management decisions.

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“…Significant contribution of scientists from Germany [8,9], who analyzed the impact of thematic literature on the ecological economy as a science and practice, and found further development of research on environmental actions in a more applied and empirical direction. Studies of the interdependence between ecological systems and man, in particular, ecosystem services and the welfare of the population, are of great importance for environmental science and sustainable development of countries [10,11]. Domestic scientists make a significant contribution to solving the problem of rational nature management, including from fundamental issues of monitoring air, water, soil, waste, biodiversity, as well as state management of quality and environmental monitoring, environmental monitoring, standardization and metrological control of pollution control the environment [12].…”

Section: Research Of Existing Solutions Of the Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%