Improving the identification of mismatches in ecosystem services assessments

Geijzendorffer, Ilse R.; Martín‐López, Berta; Roche, Philip

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.12.016

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“…It is important to distinguish between demand and flow of ES in a way that enables one to detect mismatches [23,64]. However, we found in the ES literature several approaches where concepts are used interchangeably, making the identification of unsatisfied demand particularly challenging.…”

Section: Challenges Of Assesing Mismatches and Insights For Future Rementioning

confidence: 91%

“…In the ES literature, several authors maintained that assessing mismatches in the provision of urban ES can help to better design built-up and green spaces [3,23,24,67]. The ability of urban ecosystems to provide ES is jeopardized by anthropogenic pressures such as land consumption, land-use changes, and, in some cases, the ES flow [10].…”

Section: How Can Mismatch Assessment Support Spatial Planning?mentioning

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Assessing Mismatches in the Provision of Urban Ecosystem Services to Support Spatial Planning: A Case Study on Recreation and Food Supply in Havana, Cuba

Ortiz

Geneletti

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:Integrating information about how ecosystem services (ES) are provided and benefited from in spatial planning is essential to enhance quality of life in urban areas. This study aims to assess mismatches in the provision of urban ES. Specifically, it compares the amount of services that urban dwellers currently benefit from with the capacity of green spaces to provide service and the ES demand, in order to assess two mismatches: "unsustainable flow" and "unsatisfied demand", respectively. We focus on two ES, recreation and food supply, and conduct an empirical study in two adjacent municipalities of the city of Havana, Cuba. The methodological approach includes: the identification of services providing and demanding areas; and the quantification of mismatches by carrying out a spatial comparison between critical capacity and flow, and demand and flow. Results show that urban green spaces may be potentially exposed to overcrowding. Concerning food supply, a mismatch between demand and flow emerged in both of the municipalities. The assessment can support planners in addressing the sustainable use of green spaces and the equitable distribution of ES benefits. However, its applicability requires a deep understanding of local specificities, including demand levels, accessibility to ES, and sustainability thresholds.

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Section: Challenges Of Assesing Mismatches and Insights For Future Rementioning

confidence: 91%

Section: How Can Mismatch Assessment Support Spatial Planning?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Mismatches in the Provision of Urban Ecosystem Services to Support Spatial Planning: A Case Study on Recreation and Food Supply in Havana, Cuba

Ortiz

Geneletti

2018

Sustainability

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“…However, the budgets or balances between supply and demand, as identified in these studies, failed to reflect the actual situation because no spatial relationship was found between the SPAs and SBAs. Several other researchers have identified mismatches between SPAs and SBAs [10,[63][64][65] that include cases in which the water provided by a study area is used by the people in the downstream areas while the people within the study area use water from farther upstream. Therefore, it is difficult to develop effective management policies based on the results of such supply and demand budgets, so several studies have investigated the flow of ecosystem services to determine the spatial relationships between SPAs and SBAs [14,66,67].…”

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Identifying the Areas Benefitting from the Prevention of Wind Erosion by the Key Ecological Function Area for the Protection of Desertification in Hunshandake, China

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Abstract:Research on the spatial flow of ecosystem services can help to identify the spatial relationships between service-providing areas (SPAs) and service-benefitting areas (SBAs). In this study, we used the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model to stimulate the flow paths of the wind erosion prevented by ecosystems in Hunshandake, China. By interpolating these paths, the SBAs were identified, and their benefits in terms of land cover, population, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) were determined. The results indicated that the flow paths mostly extended to the eastern part of the study area, and the estimated cover of the SBAs was 39.21% of the total area of China. The grid cells through which many (≥10%) of the trajectories passed were mainly located in the western part of north-eastern China and the eastern part of northern China. The benefitting population accounted for 74.51% of the total population of China, and the GDP was 67.11% of the total in 2010. Based on this research, we described a quantitative relationship between the SPAs and the SBAs and identified the actual beneficiaries. This work may provide scientific knowledge that can be used by decision makers to develop management strategies, such as ecological compensation to mitigate damage from sandstorms in the study area.

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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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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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Martín‐López²,

Turkelboom³

2016

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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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Improving the identification of mismatches in ecosystem services assessments

Cited by 186 publications

References 44 publications

Assessing Mismatches in the Provision of Urban Ecosystem Services to Support Spatial Planning: A Case Study on Recreation and Food Supply in Havana, Cuba

Assessing Mismatches in the Provision of Urban Ecosystem Services to Support Spatial Planning: A Case Study on Recreation and Food Supply in Havana, Cuba

Identifying the Areas Benefitting from the Prevention of Wind Erosion by the Key Ecological Function Area for the Protection of Desertification in Hunshandake, China

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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