Linking forest ecosystem services to corporate sustainability disclosure: A conceptual analysis

D'amato, Dalia; Li, Ning; Rekola, Mika; Toppinen, Anne; Lu, F-F.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.11.017

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“…fibres, water, carbon and biodiversity (D'Amato et al, 2015;Baumgartner and Ebner, 2010;Labuschagne et al, 2005;Toppinen and Korhonen-Kurki, 2013). Company energy-dependence and waste handling, normally central issues in CS, were not prominent in the interviews, since these focused on plantation forestry rather than forest industry in general (also including mill operations).…”

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Managerial Views of Corporate Impacts and Dependencies on Ecosystem Services: A Case of International and Domestic Forestry Companies in China

D'amato

Wan

et al. 2016

J Bus Ethics

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This study investigates managerial views of corporate sustainability under the ecosystem services perspective, which is emerging as a key paradigm worldwide for environmental management and policy making. We analyse interviews conducted with 20 managers from domestic and international forestry companies operating with a plantation-based business model in China. Content analysis was employed to analyse the data, with a focus on four key areas: 1) interviewee familiarity with the ecosystem services concept; 2) their views of corporate dependencies and impacts on ecosystem services; 3) related business risks and opportunities; and 4) viability of existing instruments and practices that can be employed in detecting and addressing business impacts and dependencies on ecosystem services. Based on our empirical findings, we further refined a conceptual framework of the impact-dependency-response process between enterprises and ecosystems services. This framework holds broader operational value for developing company response strategies to ecosystem services impact/dependence assessment, ensuring that all issues are addressed comprehensively, and that related risks and opportunities are properly acknowledged.

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Managerial Views of Corporate Impacts and Dependencies on Ecosystem Services: A Case of International and Domestic Forestry Companies in China

D'amato

Wan

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J Bus Ethics

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“…A parallel trend in this globalization process is the multinational forestry enterprises' increasing awareness of the roles of ecosystem benefits and community engagement that underpin their business success (Brody et al, 2006;D'Amato et al, 2015;Faggi et al, 2014). Those few enterprises that plant and manage eucalypt plantations on their own properties or leased lands in Uruguay have introduced programs that pursue synergies between plantation forestry and other rural livelihoods, including beekeeping.…”

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Impacts of land use and land use changes on the resilience of beekeeping in Uruguay

Malkamäki

Toppinen

Kanninen

2016

Forest Policy and Economics

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We use a social-ecological systems framework and interview data from key informants to analyze the threshold dynamics underpinning the resilience of the local beekeeping sector, amidst changes in land use (management) and land use changes (conversions) that result from the expansions of the soy and eucalypt frontiers in Uruguay.Our results indicate that while agriculture began displacing grasslands that originally provided high yields of honey, afforestation now compensates those losses through the flowerings of Eucalyptus grandis. By extending the flowering season from six to eight months, beekeepers' dependency on tree plantations has increased. However, forestry enterprises are now shifting to plant more productive species that do not flower similarly, anticipating a threshold crossover to which the beekeepers may be unable to adapt. In conclusion, resilience of this environmentally sensitive livelihood has been suppressed primarily by land use changes that have introduced new costs and challenges into honey production. However, threshold dynamics that appear as multifaceted challenges faced by beekeepers occur also elsewhere in the system. Certain outcomes of the threshold dynamics similar to feedback loops in social-ecological systems were identified, including considerations of out-migration and change in occupation, of which ultimate impacts remain unclear. Most beekeepers still cope with the remaining viability, but it appears that the current resilience level does not allow for further harmful impacts. This case example of coupled social and ecological interactions through a livelihood lens gives rise to future research in evolving new dimensions to govern social-ecological systems in Uruguay and beyond.

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“…Recently, the ecosystem services concept has appeared in several companies' sustainability strategies [31], and there is emerging interest in the willingness of firms to pay for benefits provided by natural systems. We found examples of the willingness to pay for ecosystem services from tropical forests.…”

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How Could Companies Engage in Sustainable Landscape Management? An Exploratory Perspective

Opdam

Steingröver

2018

Sustainability

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Current concepts that aim to align economic development with sustainability, such as the circular and green economy, often consider natural systems as externalities. We extend the green economy concept by including the landscape as the provider of social, economic and environmental values. Our aim is to explore how companies could engage in creating landscape-inclusive solutions for sustainable landscapes. We propose a conceptual model of the relationship between companies and landscape services based on a demand for landscape benefits by companies, implications for wider society. We present a short overview of how scientists addressed the role of companies in landscape-inclusive solutions. We also give some examples taken from the World Wide Web to illustrate the variety of ways in which companies already invest in landscape services. Our findings suggest that the relationship between companies and landscapes is not yet strongly recognized in sustainability science. However, examples from practice show that some companies do recognize the added values of landscape services, to the extent that they invest in landscape management. We conclude that future research should provide information on the added value of landscape-inclusive solutions to companies, and increase their capacity to engage in regional social-ecological networks.

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Linking forest ecosystem services to corporate sustainability disclosure: A conceptual analysis

Cited by 37 publications

References 50 publications

Managerial Views of Corporate Impacts and Dependencies on Ecosystem Services: A Case of International and Domestic Forestry Companies in China

Managerial Views of Corporate Impacts and Dependencies on Ecosystem Services: A Case of International and Domestic Forestry Companies in China

Impacts of land use and land use changes on the resilience of beekeeping in Uruguay

How Could Companies Engage in Sustainable Landscape Management? An Exploratory Perspective

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