Ecosystem Services as a Common Language for Coastal Ecosystem‐Based Management

Granek, Elise F.; Polasky, Stephen; Kappel, Carrie V.; Reed, Denise J.; Stoms, David M.; Koch, Evamaría W.; Kennedy, Chris; Cramer, Lori A.; Hacker, Sally D.; Barbier, Edward B.; Aswani, Shankar; Ruckelshaus, Mary; Perillo, Gerardo M. E.; Silliman, Brian R.; Muthiga, Nyawira A.; Bael, David; Wolanski, Eric

doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01355.x

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“…section 4). On the other hand, ecosystem service assessment are intended to serve as a tool in identifying and framing problems as well as to compare management alternatives, which involve trade-offs between ecosystem services (Granek et al, 2010;Hauck et al, 2013). In this connection, equating ecosystem service values derived in individual case studies on urban ecosystem service assessment e.g.…”

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Does the Ecosystem Service Concept Reach its Limits in Urban Environments?

Beichler

Bastian²,

Haase

et al. 2017

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There is a rapidly growing body of literature on the theory about the ecosystem service concept and the practical assessment of ecosystem services in different contexts ranging from natural to urban environments. Yet, where does the concept reach its limits? This paper critically reflects the application of the ecosystem service concept in urban environments illustrating the handling of urban structures (incl. built-up areas) and the risk that the normative principle of the concept could be missed. It is shown that in theory urban structures refer to a variety of ecosystem concepts. As a starting point for ecosystem service assessments, these could be classified into natural, managed, constructed and overbuilt systems. Since ecosystem service concepts do not directly refer to a specific ecosystem definition, but to biophysical structures and processes, all of these classes could be included. However, the dependency on context and scale makes a differentiation in practical ecosystem services assessment challenging. We conclude that the ecosystem service concept does not reach its limits in urban environments, but urban environments represent an extreme case characterized by multifunctionality and a high degree of modification that enables to uncover research challenges applying in any environment. There is a need for a more transparent reporting of theoretical and methodological assumptions to facilitate the comparability between ecosystem service assessments. Comprehensive approaches that consider multiple ecosystem services and include human input, human modification, the ecosystem status as well as their interactions are required to understand the spatial relations between ecosystem services delivered by different ecosystems.

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Does the Ecosystem Service Concept Reach its Limits in Urban Environments?

Beichler

Bastian²,

Haase

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“…It has been argued that ecosystem services can be employed as both a 'common language' for ecosystem-based management (Granek et al 2009), and as the foundation to providing economic opportunities to empower the disadvantaged (MEA 2005). Although both the wealthy and the poor rely on the functioning of ecosystems (Batabyal and Yoo 1994, Scheffer et al 2000, MEA 2005, the poor are often more directly reliant on these goods, services, and attributes than the affluent.…”

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The Identification of Potential Resilient Estuary-based Enterprises to Encourage Economic Empowerment in South Africa: a Toolkit Approach

Bowd¹,

Quinn²,

Kotze³

et al. 2012

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and M. Mander. 2012. The identification of potential resilient estuary-based enterprises to encourage economic empowerment in South Africa: a toolkit approach. ABSTRACT. It has been argued that ecosystem services can be used as the foundation to provide economic opportunities to empower the disadvantaged. The Ecosystem Services Framework (ESF) approach for poverty alleviation, which balances resource conservation and human resource use, has received much attention in the literature. However, few projects have successfully achieved both conservation and economic objectives. This is partly due to there being a hiatus between theory and practice, due to the absence of tools that help make the transition between conceptual frameworks and theory, to practical integration of ecosystem services into decision making. To address this hiatus, an existing conceptual framework for analyzing the robustness of social-ecological systems was translated into a practical toolkit to help understand the complexity of socialecological systems (SES). The toolkit can be used by a diversity of stakeholders as a decision making aid for assessing ecosystem services supply and demand and associated enterprise opportunities. The toolkit is participatory and combines both a generic "top-down" scientific approach with a case-specific "bottom-up" approach. It promotes a shared understanding of the utilization of ecosystem services, which is the foundation of identifying resilient enterprises. The toolkit comprises four steps: (i) ecosystem services supply and demand assessment; (ii) roles identification; (iii) enterprise opportunity identification; and (vi) enterprise risk assessment, and was tested at two estuary study sites. Implementation of the toolkit requires the populating of preprogrammed Excel worksheets through the holding of workshops that are attended by stakeholders associated with the ecosystems. It was concluded that for an enterprise to be resilient, it must be resilient at an external SES level,which the toolkit addresses, and at an internal business functioning level, e.g., social dynamics among personnel, skills, and literacy levels. Although the toolkit does not address the internal resilience level of an enterprise, it proved helpful at indicating which enterprises show potential resilience given current SES conditions.

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“…The ecosystem services concept provides a common language for ecologists, planners, resource users, decision makers and the broader community to contribute and evaluate technical and experiential information about the links between human and ecological systems (Granek et al 2010 ). Ecosystem services are the 'products of nature that directly benefi t humans' (Schmidt et al 2014 , p. 57) and where these products have a negative impact or cost there can be an ecosystem disservice (Lyytimaki and Sipila 2009 ).…”

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Planning Development to Reduce Mosquito Hazard in Coastal Peri-Urban Areas: Case Studies in NSW, Australia

Dwyer¹,

Knight

Dale

2016

Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities

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In this chapter we take a multidisciplinary approach to evaluating planning for coastal development, particularly in peri-urban areas. We consider ecosystem services and disservices and how, in the past, much development was at the expense of coastal wetlands. We then focus on mosquito production as a wetland related disservice that affects residents and imposes costs on individuals and government from both a health and management perspective. Most coastal peri-urban areas including adjacent wetland sites retain legacy infrastructures and landforms that degrade wetland function and often exacerbate the mosquito hazard. Rehabilitating coastal wetlands can improve wetland function while also reducing the mosquito hazard. Yet examination of rehabilitation and mosquito management within the existing planning framework found defi ciencies and complexity. In particular, coastal wetlands are almost always overlaid with a number of different zone and ownership boundaries that increase complexity of both mosquito management and wetland rehabilitation actions. We illustrate the issues with two case studies from northern New South Wales (NSW), Australia: a greenfi eld development located in Ballina and a retrofi tted site at Banora Point near Tweed Heads. We recommend land use planning frameworks incorporate a trigger for both assessment of adjacent coastal wetland ecosystem function and restoration of wetland ecological processes that includes provision for habitat based source control of mosquito hazard and coastal wetland rehabilitation.

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Ecosystem Services as a Common Language for Coastal Ecosystem‐Based Management

Cited by 251 publications

References 34 publications

Does the Ecosystem Service Concept Reach its Limits in Urban Environments?

Does the Ecosystem Service Concept Reach its Limits in Urban Environments?

The Identification of Potential Resilient Estuary-based Enterprises to Encourage Economic Empowerment in South Africa: a Toolkit Approach

Planning Development to Reduce Mosquito Hazard in Coastal Peri-Urban Areas: Case Studies in NSW, Australia

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