The economics of ecosystem services: from local analysis to national policies

Kumar, Pushpam; Brondízio, Eduardo S.; Gatzweiler, Franz W.; Gowdy, John M.; Groot, Dolf de; Pascual, Unai; Reyers, Belinda; Sukhdev, Pavan

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2013.02.001

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“…This can be used to promote sustainable use of ecosystems by restricting the mobilization of local people in land covers with less capacity to supply services. The local opinion in conservation and management of ecosystems is important not only for local (Martin-Lopez et al, 2012;Egoh et al, 2008), but also for national and regional policies (Kumar et al, 2013). With these, such protected areas like the KTWR, which are the last bastions for biodiversity conservation and lifeline for people, could be restored and managed sustainably.…”

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confidence: 99%

Implications of land cover change on ecosystems services and people’s dependency: A case study from the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal

Chaudhary

Chettri

Uddin

et al. 2016

Ecological Complexity

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implications of land cover change on ecosystems services and people’s dependency: A case study from the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal

Chaudhary

Chettri

Uddin

et al. 2016

Ecological Complexity

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“…Local ESV helps identify the social and ecological values important in conservation, management, and restoration of ecosystem components (Martın-Lopez et al 2012). Local valuation will also help in understanding the scale at which a particular ecosystem service is important and to link local values with national and regional policies (Kumar et al 2013). Therefore, we need to analyze the perceptions of local communities who intimately interact with their environment and recognize ecosystem services differently than other stakeholders (Meyfroidt 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Local Ecosystem Service Use and Assessment Vary with Socio-ecological Conditions: A Case of Native Coffee-Forests in Southwestern Ethiopia

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Ecosystem-based management requires the promotion and integration of locally relevant ecosystem services. This needs an understanding of which ecosystem services local people value and how local valuation varies with socio-cultural and market factors. We convened ten focus group discussions and performed 105 household surveys from major indigenous groups and recent settlers about local values of various forest-based ecosystem services in changing landscapes of southwest Ethiopia. We found that the extent of ecosystem service use and assessment depends on sociocultural background and gender of the informants, as well as income and cultural contributions of these services. Ecosystem service values vary in space and time where local people reported that they increasingly value services as they become scarce or in response to increased demands due to emerging markets or changes in production systems. Local people mostly appreciated a few services of high market value while most ecosystem services are not traded in local markets and hence not highly valued. Some low-rated ecosystem services such as fodder and medicinal plants were nonetheless widely used demonstrating the need to also conserve low rated ecosystem services that are used universally. We suggest promoting socio-cultural and other non-marketable ecosystem services to reduce the over-exploitation or exclusion of specific biodiversity components in conservation activities.

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“…Finally, in more general terms, it has been pointed out that ESV is useful as a kind of marketing device highlighting the relevancy of ES to society [60], with the potential to influence policy and planning [41] whilst also making a wider contribution to the sustainability agenda [22]. This supposition, embodied in the TEEB process (Box 1), rests on the premise that as "economics" represents the dominant normative language of politics, articulating the economic valuation of ecosystems is more likely to feedback onto society to better regulate and inform human-nature relationships and decision-making [61]. For example, according to [7]: "The invisibility of many of nature's services to the economy results in widespread neglect of →natural capital, leading to decisions that degrade →ecosystem services and →biodiversity.…”

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“…The main challenges underpinning supply uncertainty have been classified as comprising a triumvirate of issues, specifically relating to: (i) the difficulties involved in disentangling the relationships between ES generation and ecosystem functioning (e.g., spatial heterogeneity that is the supply of ecosystem services is not generally on a uniform per hectare basis); (ii) the requirement that, for valuation purposes, ESs be regarded as independent when in reality they are interrelated and co-produced; and, finally, (iii) the difficulty of pinpointing, and accounting for, ES thresholds [54,61,111].…”

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The Value Landscape in Ecosystem Services: Value, Value Wherefore Art Thou Value?

Hejnowicz

Rudd

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:Ecosystem services has risen to become one of the preeminent global policy discourses framing the way we conceive and articulate environment-society relations, integral to the form and function of a number of far-reaching international policies such as the Aichi 2020 Biodiversity Targets and the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals. Value; its pursuit, definition, quantification, monetization, multiplicity and uncertainty, both in terms of meaning and attribution, is fundamental to the economic foundations of ecosystem services and a core feature driving its inclusion across multiple policy domains such as environmental management and conservation. Distilling current knowledge and developments in this arena are thus highly prescient. In this article, we cast a critical eye over the evidence base and aim to provide a comprehensive synthesis of what values are, why they are important and the methodological approaches employed to elicit them (including their pros and cons and the arguments for and against). We also illustrate the current ecosystem service value landscape, highlight some of the fundamental challenges in discerning and applying values, and outline future research activities. In so doing, we further advance ecosystem valuation discourse, contribute to wider debates linking ecosystem services and sustainability and strengthen connections between ecosystem services and environmental policy.

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The economics of ecosystem services: from local analysis to national policies

Cited by 43 publications

References 31 publications

Implications of land cover change on ecosystems services and people’s dependency: A case study from the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal

Implications of land cover change on ecosystems services and people’s dependency: A case study from the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal

Local Ecosystem Service Use and Assessment Vary with Socio-ecological Conditions: A Case of Native Coffee-Forests in Southwestern Ethiopia

The Value Landscape in Ecosystem Services: Value, Value Wherefore Art Thou Value?

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