Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: concepts and a glossary

Harrington, R.; Anton, Christian; Dawson, Terence P.; Bello, Francesco de; Feld, Christian K.; Haslett, John; Kluvánkova-Oravská, Tatiana; Kontogianni, Areti; Lavorel, Sandra; Luck, Gary W.; Rounsevell, Mark; Samways, Michael J.; Settele, Josef; Skourtos, M.; Spangenberg, Joachim H.; Vandewalle, Marie; Zobel, Martin; Harrison, Paula A.

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“…By interpreting what they observed against the background of their own discipline, Jerneck et al (2011) illustrated the problems by demonstrating that social scientists may misinterpret the term 'uncertainty' in natural science debates as an indicator of scientific disagreements, not as an unavoidable data problem. Another example is the research on ecosystem services, the 'benefits that humans recognise as obtained from ecosystems that support, directly or indirectly, their survival and quality of life' (Harrington et al 2010). Popularized by the Millennium Assessment (MA), which integrated social and biosciences and used the term as a metaphor to highlight the social importance of natural systems (MA 2005), it was turned into an operational economic concept by Costanza et al (1997).…”

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Sustainability science: a review, an analysis and some empirical lessons

2011

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SUMMARYSustainability science has developed from a new research field into a vibrant discipline in its own right, with scientific conferences, journals and scientific societies dedicated to its pursuit. Characterized more by its research purpose than by a common set of methods or objects, sustainability science can be subdivided into the more traditional disciplinary-based science for sustainability and the transdisciplinary science of sustainability. Whereas the former consists of more descriptive, analytical and basic science, the latter is characterized by reflexivity and applicability; on a meta level, the emergence of the latter can be understood as a new step in the evolution of science. This review provides an overview of the state of sustainability science, identifying action orientation, integrated assessments and interdisciplinarity as overall characteristics. The review also focuses on methodological issues, highlighting differences in project organization and management, and the ways in which stakeholder participation can be organized in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects. Sustainability science is recognized as essential for progress towards sustainability, and as an opportunity to bring science closer to the people, requiring significant changes in the way science is organized and conducted.

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Sustainability science: a review, an analysis and some empirical lessons

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“…Links Between Functional Diversity and Social Actor Strategies ES are the benefits that humans obtain from ecosystems that support, directly or indirectly, their survival and quality of life (3,(12)(13)(14). Here ES are used as a link between the ecological concept of functional diversity and the social concept of social actor strategies (Fig.…”

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Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature's benefits to society

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The crucial role of biodiversity in the links between ecosystems and societies has been repeatedly highlighted both as source of wellbeing and as a target of human actions, but not all aspects of biodiversity are equally important to different ecosystem services. Similarly, different social actors have different perceptions of and access to ecosystem services, and therefore, they have different wants and capacities to select directly or indirectly for particular biodiversity and ecosystem characteristics. Their choices feed back onto the ecosystem services provided to all parties involved and in turn, affect future decisions. Despite this recognition, the research communities addressing biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human outcomes have yet to develop frameworks that adequately treat the multiple dimensions and interactions in the relationship. Here, we present an interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of relationships between functional diversity, ecosystem services, and human actions that is applicable to specific social environmental systems at local scales. We connect the mechanistic understanding of the ecological role of diversity with its social relevance: ecosystem services. The framework permits connections between functional diversity components and priorities of social actors using land use decisions and ecosystem services as the main links between these ecological and social components. We propose a matrix-based method that provides a transparent and flexible platform for quantifying and integrating social and ecological information and negotiating potentially conflicting land uses among multiple social actors. We illustrate the applicability of our framework by way of land use examples from temperate to subtropical South America, an area of rapid social and ecological change.

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“…They were complemented by ecological variables tightly related to geophysical features, e.g., temperature, slope. These external variables integrate concepts such as drivers of change (Bennett et al 2009) or pressures (Harrington et al 2010, Villamagna et al 2013) and enable the consideration of feedback effects from ES.…”

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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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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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Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: concepts and a glossary

Cited by 154 publications

References 33 publications

Sustainability science: a review, an analysis and some empirical lessons

Sustainability science: a review, an analysis and some empirical lessons

Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature's benefits to society

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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