An analysis of trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services and stakeholders linked to land use and water quality management in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Butler, James; Wong, Grace; Metcalfe, Daniel J.; Honzák, Miroslav; Pert, Petina L.; Rao, Nalini; Grieken, M.E. Van; Lawson, Tina; Bruce, Caroline; Kroon, Frederieke J.; Brodie, Jon

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2011.08.017

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“…Similar results were found by Butler et al (2013), who observed that different land-use management options generated trade-offs between promoting food production and water quality regulation in an Australian catchment. Land-use change motivated by economic gains and market services, such as intensive agriculture, also needs to consider the diversity of other ecosystem services and their associated values (Bateman et al 2013).…”

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Biophysical and sociocultural factors underlying spatial trade-offs of ecosystem services in semiarid watersheds

García‐Llorente¹,

Iniesta-Arandia²,

Willaarts³

et al. 2015

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Martín-López. 2015. Biophysical and sociocultural factors underlying spatial trade-offs of ecosystem services in semiarid watersheds. ABSTRACT. Biophysical and social systems are linked to form social-ecological systems whose sustainability depends on their capacity to absorb uncertainty and cope with disturbances. In this study, we explored the key biophysical and socio-cultural factors underlying ecosystem service supply in two semiarid watersheds of southern Spain. These included variables associated with the role that freshwater flows and biodiversity play in securing the system's capacity to sustain essential ecosystem services and their relationship with social demand for services, local water governance, and land-use intensification. Our results reveal the importance of considering the invisible dimensions of water and biodiversity, i.e. green freshwater flows and trait-based indicators, because of their relevance to the supply of ecosystem services. Furthermore, they uncover the importance of traditional irrigation canals, a local water governance system, in maintaining the ecosystems' capacity to supply services. The study also highlights the complex trade-offs that occur because of the spatial mismatch between ecosystem service supply (upstream) and ecosystem service demand (downstream) in watersheds. Finally, we found that land-use intensification generally resulted in losses of the biophysical factors that underpin the supply of some ecosystem services, increases in social demand for less diversified services, and the abandonment of local governance practices. Attempts to manage social-ecological systems toward sustainability at the local scale should identify the key biophysical and socio-cultural factors that are essential for maintaining ecosystem services and should recognize existing interrelationships between them. Land-use management should also take into account ecosystem service trade-offs and the consequences resulting from land-use intensification.

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Biophysical and sociocultural factors underlying spatial trade-offs of ecosystem services in semiarid watersheds

García‐Llorente¹,

Iniesta-Arandia²,

Willaarts³

et al. 2015

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“…Synergy is a win-win process in which two kinds of ecosystem services increase; for instance, surface water quality and soil retention, pasture production, and freshwater supply (Qiu and Turner 2013). As a general result of the correlation analysis, the coefficient value for a tradeoff relationship is shown as negative and the synergy is positive (Chan et al 2006;Egoh et al 2009;Butler et al 2013). Although the correlation analysis provides a relatively concise and explicit method for judging the potential tradeoffs and synergies, the specific application process still requires attention.…”

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A method to identify the variable ecosystem services relationship across time: a case study on Yanhe Basin, China

Zheng

et al. 2014

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Ecosystem services are increasingly recognized as the foundations of a well-functioning society. Large-scale ecological restoration projects have been implemented around China with the goal of restoring and sustaining ecosystem services, especially in vulnerable semi-arid regions where soil and water resources are most stressed due to historic human activities. The relationships among ecosystem services are often driven by land-use changes. It is necessary to develop an applicable method to explore the relationships between ecosystem services and driving factors over time. We selected the Yanhe Basin on China's Loess Plateau as the study area, which has experienced a large-scale Grain for Green Project (GGP), and quantified four ecosystem services (soil conservation, water retention, water yield, and crop production). The results of this study show that different trends have occurred for ecosystem services during 2000-2008. We found potential tradeoffs between soil conservation and water yield. Synergies may exist among water retention and soil conservation/water yield. Two types of preconditions were pointed out in the analysis process to define the potential relationships among ecosystem service variables. The correspondence analysis was used to explore its intrinsic linkage and its variations among ecosystem services, land uses, and spatial locations. It suggests that the intensities of the ecosystem services provided by most of land uses and the internal proportion of regulating service to provision service in a sub-basin has been changed by GGP, but the relative spatial patterns of ecosystem services are still being maintained in entire basin scale from 1980 to 2008.

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“…Recently, in order to provide implications for sustainable land-use management, researches on the types of interactions and the corresponding feedbacks among different ecosystem services are stimulated. For example, Brauman et al (2007) revealed that water quality regulation services with other services, such as habit for biodiversity and climate regulation, can be co-delivered by vegetation, requiring the analysis of trade-offs among multiple services (Butler et al, 2013). It has been a major research priority to consider biodiversity conservation bundles and ecosystem services bundles during payment implementation (Wendland et al, 2010).…”

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A review on trade-off analysis of ecosystem services for sustainable land-use management

2016

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Ecosystem services are substantial elements for human society. The central challenge to meet the human needs from ecosystems while sustain the Earth's life support systems makes it urgent to enhance efficient natural resource management for sustainable ecological and socioeconomic development. Trade-off analysis of ecosystem services can help to identify optimal decision points to balance the costs and benefits of the diverse human uses of ecosystems. In this sense, the aim of this paper is to provide key insights into ecosystem services trade-off analysis at different scales from a land use perspective, by comprehensively reviewing the trade-offs analysis tools and approaches that addressed in ecology, economics and other fields. The review will significantly contribute to future research on trade-off analysis to avoid inferior management options and offer a win-win solution based on comprehensive and efficient planning for interacting multiple ecosystem services.

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An analysis of trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services and stakeholders linked to land use and water quality management in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Cited by 159 publications

References 83 publications

Biophysical and sociocultural factors underlying spatial trade-offs of ecosystem services in semiarid watersheds

Biophysical and sociocultural factors underlying spatial trade-offs of ecosystem services in semiarid watersheds

A method to identify the variable ecosystem services relationship across time: a case study on Yanhe Basin, China

A review on trade-off analysis of ecosystem services for sustainable land-use management

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