Ecosystem Services: Response

Bateman, Ian J.; Harwood, Amii R.; Mace, Georgina M.; Watson, Robert; Abson, David J.; Andrews, Barnaby; Binner, Amy; Crowe, Andrew; Day, Brett; Dugdale, Steve; Fezzi, Carlo; Foden, Jo; Hadley, David; Haines-Young, Roy; Hulme, Mark F.; Kontoleon, Andreas; Lovett, Andrew A.; Munday, Paul; Pascual, Unai; Paterson, James; Perino, Grischa; Sen, Antara; Siriwardena, G.; Soest, Daan van; Termansen, Mette

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“…Land use changes (LUC) for feedstock crops have been reported as the most contentious issue associated with biofuel sustainability [1,2]. The conundrum is caused by the fact that LUC can greatly alter the provision of many ecosystem services (ES) [3][4][5][6][7]. The basic premise of the ES perspective is that ecosystems provide direct and indirect benefits to humans [3,7].…”

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“…The conundrum is caused by the fact that LUC can greatly alter the provision of many ecosystem services (ES) [3][4][5][6][7]. The basic premise of the ES perspective is that ecosystems provide direct and indirect benefits to humans [3,7]. While it has been acknowledged that sustainability assessments based on ES can provide highly policy-relevant insights [3][4][5][6][7], it remains a relatively unexplored issue in studies regarding the sustainability of biofuels [7].…”

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“…The basic premise of the ES perspective is that ecosystems provide direct and indirect benefits to humans [3,7]. While it has been acknowledged that sustainability assessments based on ES can provide highly policy-relevant insights [3][4][5][6][7], it remains a relatively unexplored issue in studies regarding the sustainability of biofuels [7]. Besides its relevance, theoretical foundations, versatility and acceptability amongst academics and policy makers [3][4][5][6][7], the ES perspective would also elucidate some environmental and socioeconomic impacts that support LUC decisions related to crop expansion and provide a more systematic view of biofuel sustainability.…”

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Is the expansion of sugarcane over pasturelands a sustainable strategy for Brazil's bioenergy industry?

Oliveira

Cherubin

Franco

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Biofuels are fundamental for meeting societal energy needs within the next few decades, but the sustainability of large-scale land use conversions to supply feedstock crops remains unclear. Quantitative data documenting how biofuel crop expansion will affect ecosystem services (ES) is needed to develop sustainable energy policies. Using pairwise comparisons of published and novel environmental, social and economic indicators, we quantitatively assessed the provision of critical ES related to key aspects of the sustainability of pasture-to-sugarcane transitions in Brazil. We found that with the exception of maintaining biodiversity, conversion of pasturelands to sugarcane fields enhanced many ES. Based on the Sustainability index, aimed to capture changes on key sustainability aspects by considering multiple ES and properly integrating them, we concluded that pasture to sugarcane transitions would increase the sustainability by 78% in south-central Brazil. Our results provide science-based empirical evidence that the expansion of sugarcane into degraded pasturelands is a suitable strategy to enhance Brazil's biomass feedstock supplies for producing bioenergy. Moreover, facing the complex and multidimensional concept of sustainability, our study also illustrates the importance of considering holistically land use change effects rather than individual ESs when establishing sustainable land management practices and bioenergy policies.

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Is the expansion of sugarcane over pasturelands a sustainable strategy for Brazil's bioenergy industry?

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et al. 2019

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“…Four categories of ecosystem services were initially identified: (i) provisioning services describe the material or energy outputs from ecosystems and include food, water, and other resources; (ii) regulating services influence processes such as water quality, flood regulation, and disease regulation; (iii) habitat or supporting services consider everything that an individual plant or animal needs to survive, including maintenance of genetic diversity; and (iv) cultural services consider recreational, educational, and aesthetic aspects (TEEB, 2010). These categories have been widely applied (deGroot et al, 2010; López‐Hoffman et al, 2010; Watanabe and Ortega, 2011), although ongoing debate remains about how to best implement them under a variety of situations (Bateman et al, 2013a,b; Boyd et al, 2013; Obst et al, 2013).…”

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Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services

Field

Breshears

Law

et al. 2015

Vadose Zone Journal

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Processes within the critical zone-spanning groundwater to the top of the vegetation canopy-have important societal relevance and operate over broad spatial and temporal scales that often are not included in existing frameworks for ecosystem services evaluation. Here we expand the scope of ecosystem services by specifying how critical zone processes extend context both spatially and temporally, determine constraints that limit provision of services, and offer a potentially powerful currency for evaluation. Context: A critical zone perspective extends the context of ecosystem services by expressly addressing how the physical structure of the terrestrial Earth surface (e.g., parent material, topography, and orography) provides a broader spatial and temporal template determining the coevolution of physical and biological systems that result in societal benefits. Constraints: The rates at which many ecosystem services are provided are fundamentally constrained by rate-limited critical zone processes, a phenomenon that we describe as a conceptual "supply chain" that accounts for rate-limiting soil formation, hydrologic partitioning, and streamflow generation. Currency: One of the major challenges in assessing ecosystem services is the evaluation of their importance by linking ecological processes to societal benefits through market and nonmarket valuation. We propose that critical zone processes be integrated into an evaluation currency, useful for valuation, by quantifying the energy flux available to do thermodynamic work on the critical zone. In short, characterization of critical zone processes expands the scope of ecosystem services by providing context, constraints, and currency that enable more effective management needed to respond to impacts of changing climate and disturbances.Abbreviations: EEMT, Effective Energy and Mass Transfer.

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“…Ecosystems support the development of human systems through the supply of ecosystem services (Daily et al, 2000;Costanza et al, 2014), and human activities have the potential to influence ecosystem functions. Studies indicate that the tendency for human populations and settlements to move toward coastal areas will continue to accelerate in the future (Bertolo et al, 2012;Bateman et al, 2013). Many islands are undergoing rapid urban expansion, with increasing coastal developments such as island tourism, island special economic zones, coastal city agglomeration, and ports and marinas (Bertolo et al, 2012;Qiu et al, 2017;Grydehøj, 2019).…”

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Planning island sustainable development policy based on the theory of ecosystem services: A case study of Zhoushan Archipelago, East China

Zhang¹,

Xiao²

2019

ISJ

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Island ecosystems and living conditions are undergoing rapid change as human populations are increasingly concentrated in coastal regions. Many island economies have transitioned from an emphasis on primary sector production to reliance on tourism, port, and shipping industries. This has driven processes of large-scale construction and urbanization, occasioning drastic changes in island ecosystems and enhancing the importance of understanding ecosystem service mechanisms on islands. This paper explores the spatial distribution and interactions of ecosystem services in East China's Zhoushan Archipelago and how these should affect the island's sustainable development policy. The results show that the archipelago's total ecosystem services hold great potential but that there are significant trade-offs and synergy relations, which vary on different islands in the archipelago. Cultural services are mainly distributed across the northeastern and southeastern regions, with plentiful natural scenery and Buddhist cultural heritage, which are attractive to tourists. Provisioning services show a negative correlation between cultural services and regulating services, indicating strong trade-offs between them. However, the synergy areas between cultural and regulating services might become priorities for future policies. These are mostly situated in the rural eastern part of the archipelago. The island planning policy proposed in this paper, based on the ecosystem services theory and sensitive to intra-archipelagic differences, contributes to efforts at island sustainable development by seeking to resolve tensions between economic development and environmental protection.

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Ecosystem Services: Response

Cited by 8 publications

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Is the expansion of sugarcane over pasturelands a sustainable strategy for Brazil's bioenergy industry?

Is the expansion of sugarcane over pasturelands a sustainable strategy for Brazil's bioenergy industry?

Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services

Planning island sustainable development policy based on the theory of ecosystem services: A case study of Zhoushan Archipelago, East China

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