The ecosystem services agenda:bridging the worlds of natural science and economics, conservation and development, and public and private policy

Braat, L.C.; Groot, R.S. de

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2012.07.011

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“…Nevertheless, the notion that ecosystems contribute to human wellbeing has found enthusiastic support in related fi elds of study (Daily and Matson 2008;Carpenter et al 2009;Braat and de Groot 2012). It has also found expression in a reinvigoration of neoclassical economic approaches to environmental issues, ranging from the economic rationale for action on climate change (Stern 2007) to the value of ecosystem services at the global, national and regional level (Hein et al 2006;de Groot et al 2012;Bateman et al 2014;Kubiszewski et al 2013) and the value of services provided by specifi c ecosystems Lal et al 2009).…”

Section: Economic Valuation Techniques and Valuing Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

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Valuing and Evaluating Marine Ecosystem Services: Putting the Right Price on Marine Environments?

Clifton¹,

Cullen-Unsworth²,

Unsworth³

2014

Environment and Society

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Ⅲ ABSTRACT: Th e fl ow of ecosystem services from coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests sustains the livelihoods of billions of people worldwide. Faced with the global degradation of marine and coastal ecosystems, policy makers are increasingly focusing on ecosystem service valuation techniques to encourage conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. Here we provide a review and synthesis of the available information on economic valuation techniques as applied to tropical marine habitats. Our study demonstrates the high variability and lack of consistency in outcomes from these studies. We conclude that, if the concept of ecosystem goods and services is to make a positive contribution towards managing the impacts of humans on the environment, then economic valuation approaches must refl ect the inherent limitations of economic theory whilst emphasizing the complexity and heterogeneity of the natural environment and human decision making.

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Section: Economic Valuation Techniques and Valuing Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

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Valuing and Evaluating Marine Ecosystem Services: Putting the Right Price on Marine Environments?

Clifton¹,

Cullen-Unsworth²,

Unsworth³

2014

Environment and Society

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“…Recent publications in Nature [31] or Ecological Economics [2] stress the importance of biodiversity preservation. Isbell et al [31] argue that plant biodiversity needs to be preserved in order to benefit complex human systems.…”

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“…The concept of 'ecosystem services' has been developed in order to describe ways in which humans benefit from healthy ecosystems [2]. Recent findings compiled by a study of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), indicate that those corporate chiefs who fail to make sustainable management of biodiversity part of their business plans may find themselves increasingly out of step with the market place.…”

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Paradoxes of Sustainable Development and Abandonment of Nature

Kopnina¹

2014

Anthropol

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The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and various international environmental agencies have developed the concept of 'ecosystem services' and 'natural resources' to describe ways in which humans benefit from healthy ecosystems. Biodiversity was recognized to be of great social and economic value to both present and future generations. According to its critics, resource approach of nature might be inadequate in protecting non-human species that are not directly used for human welfare since the economic capture gives no grounding for prohibiting or even restricting their destruction. This article aims to examine environmental challenges through contesting discourses of sustainability and to discuss implications of these conceptions for the sustainable future for human security.

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“…Another model of great interest is that of Ecosystem Services [5]- [7], which has had considerable academic and political impact. Its most important feature for our purposes is its high level of development of the operationalization of the dimensions and its degree of transference to the political decision-making system [8].…”

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Particularities of the Golf-Course-Based Tourist-Urban Development Model (Gbp): Towards a Set of Contextual Indicators

Gómez

Domínguez-Álvarez

2018

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The first phase of any socio-environmental impact assessment is the detailed investigation of the context where the project is to be carried out. How best to articulate this context into socioenvironmental dimensions and indicators has long been the subject of complex debates in the field. This paper attempts to advance this articulation, suggesting a number of contextual indicators based on the principal theories embracing environmental multidimensionality in measuring systems. We discuss the indicators chosen and the issues encountered in building this approach. Subsequently we assess the capacity of this set of contextual indicators to afford insights into the particularities of the golf-coursebased tourist-urban development model (GBP). We set out to test the hypothesis that local contexts can be distinguished from each other via the impacts of the GBP model. To this end we perform a main components analysis of 16 socio-environment context indicators, using municipal data from a total of 59 coastal municipalities, i.e. the whole coast of Andalusia (Spain). Our findings show with acceptable clarity that the local socio-environmental context is marked by the development of GBP, revealing a battery of factors that, in the geopolitical area studied (Spain, south-west Europe), are especially sensitive to this type of tourist-urban development. Keywords: socio-environmental impact assessment, development projects, golf, tourism, local context analysis, Spain. INTRODUCTIONAmong the salient issues which any socio-environmental impact assessment study (SEIA) has to address is the complexity of the context where the project (road, hydro-electric dam/ plant, mining development, etc.) will be carried out. In-depth knowledge of this context is essential for appropriate impact assessment, since each development project is distinct from all others: differences in scope or field, type of project, size, location, etc., make no two schemes identical.The gradual increase of SIA studies in projects has placed the issue of complexity on the decision-makers' table. Currently SIAs are shifting from a positivist, engineering-based model towards a constructivist one [1], i.e. from a type of research design based on the application of general, standardised models (a deductive approach) towards one which is more tailor-made for each project, laying more stress on the phases of detailed exploration of the social context (geographical, sociological, historical, economic, demographic, cultural, etc.) and embracing participatory methodologies which bring stakeholders into the actual design and implementation of the project. However, developers, public administrators and politicians (the principal decision-makers) all share the prevailing engineering-based model of analysis, with its practitioners and traditional methodological grounding [2]. In the end, it is the scientific-technological models which, in our global culture, are legitimised to address social and historical problems. Thus, a clear challenge arises for SEIA: how to...

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The ecosystem services agenda:bridging the worlds of natural science and economics, conservation and development, and public and private policy

Cited by 858 publications

References 26 publications

Valuing and Evaluating Marine Ecosystem Services: Putting the Right Price on Marine Environments?

Valuing and Evaluating Marine Ecosystem Services: Putting the Right Price on Marine Environments?

Paradoxes of Sustainable Development and Abandonment of Nature

Particularities of the Golf-Course-Based Tourist-Urban Development Model (Gbp): Towards a Set of Contextual Indicators

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