Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases

Schröter, Matthias; Koellner, Thomas; Alkemade, Rob; Arnhold, Sebastian; Bagstad, Kenneth J.; Erb, Karl Heinz; Frank, Karin; Kastner, Thomas; Kissinger, Meidad; Liu, Jianguo; López‐Hoffman, Laura; Maes, Joachim; Marques, Alexandra; Martín‐López, Berta; Meyer, Carsten; Schulp, Catharina J.E.; Thober, Jule; Wolff, Sarah; Bonn, Aletta

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.02.003

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“…ES flows are driven by both natural and human factors, such as natural ecology and social economy, leading to the spatiotemporal changes in ES supply and demand. The relationship between these factors are complex and interactive (Schröter et al 2018). WPSF is a typical example of passive ES flow, which is more influenced by natural conditions (e.g.…”

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“…Therefore, the sustainability of one region is not restricted to the local scale but is also closely related to the region's SPAs and ES flow process. Evaluating the regional sustainable development level by incorporating the ES flows can avoid unilateralism (Schröter et al 2018) and is conducive to balancing the ecological deficit, especially in an urban agglomeration. Simultaneously, ES flows and land use changes are highly interlinked.…”

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“…The ES flow mechanism varies among ES types (Schröter et al 2018), leading to various spatio-temporal relationships between SPAs and SBAs, such as (1) global service flow does not rely on proximity to the service, e.g. climate regulation and carbon sequestration (CS); (2) adjacent services on a local scale include all-around services (e.g.…”

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A spatio-temporal delineation of trans-boundary ecosystem service flows from Inner Mongolia

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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Ecosystem service (ES) flows across geophysical and administrative boundaries are ubiquitous and are receiving more attention in an increasingly metacoupled world. Omitting trans-boundary ES flows from ES assessments will lead to unilateral conclusions and underestimation of ES contributions over distances. Inner Mongolia is an important ecological security barrier of China and Eurasia, but the trans-boundary effect of this barrier is difficult to be quantitatively evaluated and is rarely assessed. This study assessed the ecological security barrier function of Inner Mongolia from the perspective of trans-boundary ES flows, including wind prevention and sand fixation (WPSF), water provision (WP), carbon sequestration (CS) and livestock product provision (LPP) service flows. The transboundary value flows for the WPSF, WP, CS and LPP services in 2010 were 6.20×10 10 CNY (Chinese currency, yuan), 0.21×10 10 CNY, 1.29×10 10

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A spatio-temporal delineation of trans-boundary ecosystem service flows from Inner Mongolia

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Liu

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…The burgeoning scholarship on ecosystem services has likewise generated valuable inputs for estimating aggregate welfare measures such as the GPI (Costanza et al, 2017). Ecosystem research also promises to measure the transboundary impact of production by modelling imports and exports of ecosystem services between countries (Schroeter et al, 2018).…”

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Measuring what matters and guiding policy: An evaluation of the Genuine Progress Indicator

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2020

International Labour Review

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This article examines the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), which seeks to respond to the shortcomings of GDP and the main contemporary challenges to welfare. As a monetary indicator, the GPI is uniquely suited to evaluate the impact of policy proposals and its dashboard-like features are able to track changes in contributing variables. While the GPI is currently not available for use in crosscountry analyses, it will be measurable using a standard methodology once certain data issues have been resolved and a consensus is reached on GPI 2.0. Currently, the main obstacles to its widespread use are lack of political leadership and institutional support.

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“…This requires a comprehensive view on supply, demand and flow to assess spatial interactions and trade-offs [31,32], as several studies have emphasized that spatial mismatches between demand and supply occur at various scales [4,5,[33][34][35]. Consequently, goods and services may need to be transported to beneficiaries, or people need to move to supply areas (e.g., to benefit from recreational opportunities) [4,36,37]. An increased understanding of these interactions can reveal dependencies of beneficiaries from ecosystems that are located in other regions or countries, allowing decision-makers to adopt sustainable solutions [36,38].…”

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Analyzing Spatial Congruencies and Mismatches between Supply, Demand and Flow of Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development

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Ecosystem services (ESs) are increasingly included into decision-making to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although both concepts consider the interactions between humans and the environment, spatial relationships between ESs and sustainability have been rarely addressed. Therefore, this study aims at analyzing spatial congruencies and mismatches between ESs and sustainability in the greater Alpine region. Using hot spot and overlap analyses, we overlaid maps of supply, demand and flow of eight key ESs with the spatial distribution of sustainability based on 24 indicators. Our results reveal that, in most cases, supply of and demand for ESs are greatly dislocated. These mismatches are reflected also in the spatial distribution of sustainability. In contrast to ES demand hot spots, supply hot spots are generally characterized by high sustainability levels, especially in relation to the environment. However, due to discrepancies in the social and economic dimensions, it cannot be assumed that ES supply hot spots always correspond to high sustainability. Hence, using ES indicators for measuring sustainability provides rather limited insights. We conclude that both concepts should be applied in a complementary way to maximize ecological, social and economic benefits in land management and planning processes.

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Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases

Cited by 164 publications

References 61 publications

A spatio-temporal delineation of trans-boundary ecosystem service flows from Inner Mongolia

A spatio-temporal delineation of trans-boundary ecosystem service flows from Inner Mongolia

Measuring what matters and guiding policy: An evaluation of the Genuine Progress Indicator

Analyzing Spatial Congruencies and Mismatches between Supply, Demand and Flow of Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development

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