Spatial coupling and decoupling between ecosystem services provisioning and benefiting areas: Implications for marine spatial planning

Vergara, Ximena; Carmona, Alejandra; Nahuelhual, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105455

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“…Although generally speaking, the language of ESs is hard to understand and diffic to adapt to public discourse-as highlighted in the survey developed by Peña et al [24 various articles argue for the potential added value of ESs "to improve stakeholder gagement" [43], "to simplify and better understand the nature of a geographic phenom non" [44], and "for informing, communicating and facilitating consensus building amo different actors because it provides a basis for multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary coll oration" [45]. The second group of questions aimed to analyse the operationalisation of the aforementioned purposes assigned to ESs for the planning process, and whether or not these proposals have allowed for their integration into the planning process:…”

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Ecosystem Services for Planning: A Generic Recommendation or a Real Framework? Insights from a Literature Review

Ronchi

2021

Sustainability

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Recently, the concept of Ecosystem Services (ESs) has undergone a process of mainstreaming. It has been promoted in multiple policy documents and investigated in a growing number of studies addressing the functioning, assessment and management of ESs. Despite a general recommendation to integrate ESs into planning processes, this step remains highly critical yet far from complete. This paper explores the feasibility of the recommended uses of ESs for planning purposes by examining the needs of planners and decision-makers. A systematic literature review was conducted analysing different studies to overcome the limited adoption of ESs in planning verifying their operationalisation for planning practices. The paper classifies different purpose(s) assigned to ESs supporting the planning process. The results show that few experiments have adopted a step-by-step procedure facilitating the integration of ESs into planning and highlighting their added value in each phase of the planning process. In these cases, an ES-based Green Infrastructure has allowed for their integration into planning, also adopting a multi-scale spatial dimension. More practical experiments on how a planning process works are needed to operationalise the ESs concept for planning purposes, also reinforcing the role of the Strategic Environmental Assessment that is still marginal.

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confidence: 99%