Capacity, pressure, demand, and flow: A conceptual framework for analyzing ecosystem service provision and delivery

Villamagna, Amy M.; Angermeier, Paul L.; Bennett, Elena M.

doi:10.1016/j.ecocom.2013.07.004

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“…I primi studi scientifici sui servizi ecosistemici si focalizzavano su tre aspetti (Crouzat et al 2016): (i) l'offerta potenziale, definita come la capacità biofisica degli ecosistemi di fornire servizi sulla base della combinazione delle caratteristiche geofisiche, ecologiche e uso del suolo (Bastian et al 2012); (ii) la domanda, definita come la richiesta sociale di utilizzo di un particolare servizio ecosistemico in una specifica area o, in altri termini, all'ammontare desiderato di un servizio da parte della società (Villamagna et al 2013); e (iii) l'uso, definito come l'uso corrente di un servizio ecosistemico al fine di soddisfare la domanda sociale, indicato anche con il termine budget (Burkhard et al 2012). Queste tre prospettive d'analisi si incentravano sui singoli servizi ecosistemici tralasciando gli eventuali trade-off e le possibili sinergie presenti.…”

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Ecosystem services in forests of Calabria: stakeholders’ perception

Pastorella¹,

Maesano²,

Paletto³

et al. 2017

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Abstract:Ecosystem services in forests of Calabria: stakeholders' perception. In the last decades, the ecological, economic and social analysis of benefits provided by ecosystem to society has coved a great importance in the scientific international literature. The main studies focuses on three aspects: ecosystem services potential supply, demand and use. The potential supply is defined as the ecosystem biophysical capacity to supply services, while the demand represents the amount of service desired by the society. The third aspect considers the current use of a ecosystem service in order to satisfy the social demand. This study focused on the evaluation of social demand on ecosystem services provided by forests at local level (Calabria region) under the project "ALForLab". The main objective of the present study is to analyze the stakeholders' opinions and preferences of forest sector in Calabria Region about relevance of forest ecosystem services and categories of ecosystem services. The study, conducted in four areas (Pollino, Sila, Catena Costiera and Serre Calabre), was structured in three steps: (i) identification and classification of stakeholders (stakeholder analysis); (ii) administration of a questionnaire to the previously identified stakeholders; (iii) statistical analysis of the data collected by questionnaire. Stakeholders' opinions and preferences were analyzed in order to highlight the differences between study areas and groups of stakeholders. At the end of the stakeholder analysis, 320 stakeholders were identified and contacted, 71 of whom filled in the questionnaire (response rate of 22%). The results show that the two main categories of ecosystem services are the supporting services and regulating services. According to the stakeholders' opinions the three most important forest ecosystem services are: biodiversity, landscape and hydrogeological protection. Landscape is particularly important because it is strictly linked to the cultural value and social identity of a territory. This survey show that the characteristics and peculiarities of each study area are the main factors that influence the stakeholders' preferences on single elements of the landscape. In the study areas characterized by a high natural value (Pollino, Sila and Serre Calabre) the stakeholders consider the natural elements of the landscape (forests and water bodies) as the most important, while in the most urbanized study area (Catena Costiera) the anthropic and cultural elements have a key importance. Finally, the stakeholders consider the forest fires, the illegal cuttings and the forest management abandonment the three main important threat factors to forests functionality in Calabria.

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Ecosystem services in forests of Calabria: stakeholders’ perception

Pastorella¹,

Maesano²,

Paletto³

et al. 2017

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“…At first sight, it is obvious that society as such is a beneficiary as it strives for a clean environment (Villamagna et al 2013). With regard to directives and regulations arising from national as well as European legislation, politics can also be defined as a beneficiary for the assessed ecosystem service, which can eventually also be allocated to society as such.…”

Section: Ecosystem Service Demandmentioning

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“…Thus, the nutrient cycle is almost closed (Chapin et al 2002). However, intense agricultural usage has greatly changed the natural nutrient cycle (Vitousek et al 1997). Due to fertiliser use and high production yields, the nutrient cycle has been artificially opened up (Chapin et al 2002, Tivy 1987.…”

Section: Nutrient Regulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The consequence of a persistent surplus of nutrients results in degradation of the environment (Chapin et al 2002, Fenn et al 1998). More precisely, the excess of nutrients on agricultural land leads to increasing nutrient losses from the soil and consequently enrichment of nutrients in groundwater, lakes, rivers and eventually the ocean (Chapin et al 2002, Vitousek et al 1997, Tivy 1987. Therefore, the eutrophication of ecosystems has been recognised as a severe issue by society as well as research, whereby agriculture has been defined as the major diffuse source of nutrient inputs into the environment (Trepel 2016, TEEB 2015, Taube et al 2013, Larsson and Granstedt 2010, HELCOM 2004.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mapping of nutrient regulating ecosystem service supply and demand on different scales in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Bicking¹,

Burkhard²,

Kruse³

et al. 2018

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This study deals with one of the regulating ecosystem services, nutrient regulation. In order to guarantee sustainable land management, it is of great relevance to gain spatial information on this ecosystem service. Unsustainable land management with regard to nutrient regulation may, for example, result in eutrophication which has been identified as a major threat for the environmental state of our water bodies. In the first step of research, the potential supplies and demands of/for nutrient regulation were assessed and mapped at two different spatial scales: The German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (regional scale) and the Bornhöved Lakes District (local scale). The assessment was undertaken for nitrogen, as an exemplary nutrient. Subsequently, potential supply and demand, combined with the nitrate leaching potential and the groundwater nitrate concentration, were incorporated into a correlation analysis. The data was statistically analysed with varying pre-processing and spatial resolutions. The statistical analysis reveals that large scale data with low resolution leads to more uncertain results. Decreasing the spatial scale and increasing the resolution of the data through a spatially more explicit assessment, leads to more explicit results. It is striking that the study reveals a spatial mismatch between the potential supply and demand for the ecosystem service nutrient regulation, which denotes unsustainable land management in the study areas.

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“…To characterize their pivotal function, authors have itemized the different facets constitutive of individual ES with the motivation that their joint consideration could support a more integrative approach of the multiple relationships between ES and social-ecological systems (Burkhard et al 2012, Villamagna et al 2013, Bagstad et al 2014. Given current lack of consensus on terminology, reviewed by Villamagna et al (2013) and Geijzendorffer et al (2015)), the three facets will be hereafter referred to as ES potential supply, demand, and use. First, potential supply is defined as the ecosystem biophysical capacity to supply services (Bastian et al 2012), because of the combination of geophysical and ecological characteristics under current land use.…”

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confidence: 99%

Disentangling trade-offs and synergies around ecosystem services with the influence network framework: illustration from a consultative process over the French Alps

Crouzat¹,

Martín‐López²,

Turkelboom³

2016

E&S

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ABSTRACT. An important aspect of sustainability is to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem functioning while improving human well-being. For this, the ecosystem service (ES) approach has the potential to bridge the still existing gap between ecological management and social development, especially by focusing on trade-offs and synergies between ES and between their beneficiaries. Several frameworks have been proposed to account for trade-offs and synergies between ES, and between ES and other components of socialecological systems. However, to date, insufficient explicit attention has been paid to the three facets encompassed in the ES concept, namely potential supply, demand, and use, leading to incomplete descriptions of ES interactions. We expand on previous frameworks by proposing a new influence network framework (INF) based on an explicit consideration of influence relationships between these three ES facets, biodiversity, and external driving variables. We tested its ability to provide a comprehensive view of complex socialecological interactions around ES through a consultative process focused on environmental management in the French Alps. We synthetized the interactions mentioned during this consultative process and grouped variables according to their overall propensity to influence or be influenced by the system. The resulting directed sequence of influences distinguished between: (1) mostly influential variables (dynamic social variables and ecological state variables), (2) target variables (provisioning and cultural services), and (3) mostly impacted variables (regulating services and biodiversity parameters). We discussed possible reasons for the discrepancies between actual and perceived influences and proposed options to overcome them. We demonstrated that the INF holds the potential to deliver collective assessments of ES relations by: (1) including ecological as well as social aspects, (2) providing opportunities for colearning processes between stakeholder groups, and (3) supporting communication about complex social-ecological systems and consequences for environmental management.

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Capacity, pressure, demand, and flow: A conceptual framework for analyzing ecosystem service provision and delivery

Cited by 567 publications

References 39 publications

Ecosystem services in forests of Calabria: stakeholders’ perception

Ecosystem services in forests of Calabria: stakeholders’ perception

Mapping of nutrient regulating ecosystem service supply and demand on different scales in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Disentangling trade-offs and synergies around ecosystem services with the influence network framework: illustration from a consultative process over the French Alps

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