Creating win-wins from trade-offs? Ecosystem services for human well-being: A meta-analysis of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies in the real world

Howe, Caroline; Suich, Helen; Vira, Bhaskar; Mace, Georgina M.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.07.005

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“…First, it replicates the idea of the broadly used win-win concept (e.g., [55]). Within this concept, the main negotiation strategies are distributive and integrative.…”

Section: Many Faces Of Benefit Sharingmentioning

confidence: 93%

Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing

Soliev

Theesfeld

2017

Sustainability

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It is broadly agreed that development needs and effects from changing environment will increase pressure on the ways natural resources are utilized and shared at present. In most parts of the world, resource stress has already reached unprecedented levels setting resource sustainability high on the policy agenda on multiple governance levels. This paper aims to explain how the benefit sharing approach can help reframe the debate for sustainability, its advantages and disadvantages for transforming governance challenges and adapting to increasing resource stress. We bring together fragmented discussions of benefit sharing from three resource domains: water, land, and biodiversity. Both theoretical and empirical examples are provided to aid understanding of how benefit sharing can facilitate adaptive governance processes in complex socio-ecological systems. The findings highlight importance of integrating the long-term perspective when societies move from volumes toward values of shared natural resources, as well as setting environmental conservation and equitable allocation as the top priority for benefit sharing to be sustainable.

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“…First, it replicates the idea of the broadly used win-win concept (e.g., [55]). Within this concept, the main negotiation strategies are distributive and integrative.…”

Section: Many Faces Of Benefit Sharingmentioning

confidence: 93%

Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing

Soliev

Theesfeld

2017

Sustainability

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“…It is thus essential to conduct more studies that simultaneously examine multiple ecosystem services and that aim to understand the synergies and tradeoffs among them, how these synergies and tradeoffs change with spatial scale and in time (Bennett, Peterson, and Gordon 2009), and the mechanisms that cause them (Howe et al 2014). These studies will provide the tools to communicate effectively with stakeholders and policymakers (Tuner et al 2007;Landis et al 2017) to achieve agricultural multifunctionality.…”

Section: Long-term Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersection between biodiversity conservation, agroecology, and ecosystem services

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Jha

Philpott

2017

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Agroecological research has improved our understanding of the drivers and benefits of biodiversity, thus providing the scientific basis needed to achieve agricultural multifunctionality. We review how agroecology has contributed to our understanding of the effects of local and landscape level drivers on beneficial insects, as well as on the ecosystem services they provide. Several syntheses from agroecosystem research indicate that both populations and biodiversity of pollinator and natural enemies decline with increases in local agricultural intensification and that landscape composition and configuration may mediate these local scale effects. Changes in agricultural management may affect predation and pollination services by altering the resource base for natural enemies and pollinators, by altering their species pool, and by modifying their interactions. The effects of these drivers depend on taxonomical or functional groups and landscape context. Studies that directly measure the cascading effects of landscape drivers on pest control and pollination services and plant level benefits are sparse. We propose five research themes to improve our understanding of the interface of agroecology, conservation, and ecosystem service research.

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“…Based on previous studies (Braat, et al 2008;De Groot, et al 2010b;Howe, et al 2014;Lee, & Lautenbach 2016); we expected that (a) trade-offs would exist between an increase in the provisioning service (pinion extraction) and a decrease in other services and (b) the reduction would be more strongly revealed by indicators directly affected by trampling and harvesting and would be less strong for indicators indirectly affected by forest disturbance over time.…”

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“…According to such methods, biophysical indicators directly related to ecosystem services are measured against ecosystem degradation (Daily, et al 1997;De Groot, et al 2010b;Van Oudenhoven, et al 2015b;Kim, et al 2016), and valuation must highlight the trade-offs among competing ecosystem services (Costanza, 2000;De Groot, et al 2010b;Howe, et al 2014) to find critical limits for maintaining each service under alternative management stages (Braat, et al 2008;De Groot, et al 2010a;Van Oudenhoven, et al 2012;Van Oudenhoven, et al 2015b). Based on such premises, we can indicate the point at which stress begins to affect a given service or when the optimal combination of services is reached (Haines-Young, & Potschin 2010;Deng, et al 2016).…”

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Trade-offs among ecosystem services under different pinion harvesting intensities in Brazilian Araucaria Forests

Fichino

Pivello

Santos

2017

International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Servic

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Assessing the consequences of human exploitation at different intensities on ecosystem services is important in the Brazilian Araucaria Forest biome, because it has been drastically reduced, mainly due to the exploitation of Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze for wood. The inclusion of A. angustifolia on the list of Brazilian endangered plant species places the harvesting of Araucaria nuts as the most important provisioning service in this type of ecosystem. The aim of this study was to determine the trade-offs related to provisioning, supporting and regulating ecosystem services in the Araucaria Forest at different intensities of nut harvesting, by addressing ecosystem attributes that assure forest sustainability. Six indicators of ecosystem services were evaluated in harvested and non-harvested areas in Brazilian Araucaria Forest fragments. Trade-offs were examined under five harvesting intensities. The supporting services were the most sensitive to the harvesting intensity. The results indicate that a harvesting threshold of between 60% and 85% of the nuts produced guarantees forest sustainability. In addition, areas under higher harvesting intensities provide more short-term benefit services at the local scale that can be included in the formal market.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Creating win-wins from trade-offs? Ecosystem services for human well-being: A meta-analysis of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies in the real world

Cited by 668 publications

References 61 publications

Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing

Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing

Intersection between biodiversity conservation, agroecology, and ecosystem services

Trade-offs among ecosystem services under different pinion harvesting intensities in Brazilian Araucaria Forests

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