Trade-off analysis of ecosystem service provision in nature networks

Vogdrup-Schmidt, Mathias; Strange, Niels; Olsen, Søren Bøye; Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.12.011

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“…In recent years, trade-off analysis has emerged as a new research field, and previous studies have explored trade-offs among the four types of ESs (provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services) (Raudsepp-Hearne et al, 2010;White et al, 2012;Ballantine et al, 2015) and among the subtypes within a given type (e.g., the provisioning of fresh water and food) (Lautenbach et al, 2013;Frank et al, 2014). Trade-off analysis is a key issue when integrating ESs for landscape planning, management, and decision making (Mach et al, 2015;Darvill and Lindo, 2016;Gissi et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2017;Vogdrup-Schmidt et al, 2017), and it has been used to coordinate ESs in various fields, such as agriculture (Lautenbach et al, 2013), tourism (White et al, 2012), energy (Gissi et al, 2016), and ecological restoration (Wang et al, 2017), which encompasses various geographical features around the world, including wetlands (Mach et al, 2015), mountains (Wang et al, 2017), plateaus (Zheng et al, 2016), seaboards (White et al, 2012), and islands (Goldstein et al, 2012). Therefore, trade-off analysis potentially represents a new way to guide ecological restoration on the Loess Plateau of China, where the ecological system is fragile, and water resources are scarce.…”

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Ecosystem service trade-offs and their influencing factors: A case study in the Loess Plateau of China

Feng

Zhao

et al. 2017

Science of The Total Environment

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Soil erosion control (SEC), carbon sequestration (CAS), and soil moisture (SMO) strongly interact in the semi-arid Loess Plateau. Since SMO has supportive effects on SEC and CAS, it can be considered as ecosystem service (ES), and there is an immediate need to coordinate the relationships among these ecosystem services (ESs) to promote the sustainability of vegetation recovery. In this study, we quantified the ESs, ES trade-offs, and the environmental factors in 151 sample plots in the Ansai watershed, and we used a redundancy analysis (RDA) to clarify the effects of environmental factors on these ESs and their trade-offs. The results were as follows: (1) the general trend in the SEC of vegetation types was Robinia pseudoacacia (CH)>native grass (NG)>small arbor (ST)>Hippophae rhamnoides (SJ)>artificial grass (AG)>Caragana korshinskii (NT)>apple orchard (GY)>crop (CP); the CAS trend was CH>SJ>NT>AG>CP>ST>GY>NG; and the SMO trend was CP>NG>GY>AG>SJ>ST>CH>NT. (2) For SEC-SMO trade-offs, the influence of vegetation type, altitude, silt and sand composition was dominant. The arrangement of NG, AG, and SJ could decrease the extent of the trade-offs. (3) For CAS-SMO trade-offs, vegetation coverage and types were the dominant factors, but the effects were not complex. The extent of these trade-offs was lowest for NT, and that for SJ was the second lowest. (4) Considering the relationships among the three ESs, SJ was the most appropriate afforestation plant. Combing the vegetation types, slope position, slope gradient, and soil properties could regulate these ES relationships. The dominant factors influencing ES trade-offs varied among the different soil layers, so we must consider the corresponding influencing factors to regulate ESs. Moreover, manual management measures were also important for coordinating the ES relationships. Our research provides a better understanding of the mechanisms influencing the relationships among ESs.

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Ecosystem service trade-offs and their influencing factors: A case study in the Loess Plateau of China

Feng

Zhao

et al. 2017

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Contentious areas of trade-off may include differences in ecosystem service provision driven by wetland location and design, and the alteration of individual and/or community use rights. [73][74][75] Wetlands differ considerably in the type and amount of ecosystem services generated. 64 Restored wetlands are typically designed to enhance the ecosystem service that attracted the funding for restoration (e.g., nutrient attenuation, carbon abatement, biodiversity payments, waterfowl hunting, or tourism; Table S2).…”

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Financial incentives for large-scale wetland restoration: Beyond markets to common asset trusts

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Wetlands provide $47.4 trillion/year worth of ecosystem services globally and support immense biodiversity, yet face widespread drainage and pollution, and large-scale wetlands restoration is urgently needed. Payment for ecosystem service (PES) schemes provide a viable avenue for funding large-scale wetland restoration. However, schemes around the globe differ substantially in their goals, structure, challenges, and effectiveness in supporting large-scale wetland restoration. Here, we suggest wetland-based PES schemes use common asset trusts (CATs) to build investment portfolios of wetlands across landscapes that sustain and enhance overall provision of multiple ecosystem services. CATs can meet the needs of multiple investors, permit bundled payments, and provide flexibility to invest in the restoration of numerous services/values, all using a coordinated, highly collaborative, prioritized, and transparent process. CATs would support financial viability, facilitate efficiency to reduce administrative burdens, and enable credibility and social licence building to restore wetland values and services globally. ll

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“…In general terms, ES can be defined as "the benefits of nature to households, communities, and economies" [22]. Several studies underline that ES determines trans-scalar neutral, synergic, and trade-off relationships among households and communities, thus emphasizing the significance of understanding these interactions as a pre-condition for informed decisions on politics and interventions related to environment, economics, and land use [27][28][29].…”

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Smart City Governance and Children’s Agency: An Assessment of the Green Infrastructure Impact on Children’s Activities in Cagliari (Italy) with the Tool “Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS)”

Garau

Annunziata

2019

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The increases in urbanization, pollution, resource depletion, and climate change underline the need for urban planning policies that incorporate blue–green infrastructure (BGI) and ecosystem services. This paper proposes a framework for assessing BGI’s effect on children’s outdoor activities. This effect, called meaningful usefulness, is a central issue due to the influence of experiences with nature on children’s development and the global trend of concentration of children in urban areas. Based on the concept of affordance, the methodology formalizes meaningful usefulness in terms of an index of usefulness of individual settings (IUIS) and a synthetic index of usefulness of BGI in a specific area (ISGI). These are determined via an audit protocol, Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS), which incorporates a set of indicators measuring micro-scale properties of individual places and contextual macro-scale factors. The methodology is applied to BGI components in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, which was selected for its superior density of urban green spaces. The application of the OCUS tool confirms its usefulness for investigating functional affordances incorporated into the trans-scalar structures of BGIs. The analytic protocol further contributes to the implementation of urban planning strategies within the smart city paradigm.

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Trade-off analysis of ecosystem service provision in nature networks

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

Ecosystem service trade-offs and their influencing factors: A case study in the Loess Plateau of China

Ecosystem service trade-offs and their influencing factors: A case study in the Loess Plateau of China

Financial incentives for large-scale wetland restoration: Beyond markets to common asset trusts

Smart City Governance and Children’s Agency: An Assessment of the Green Infrastructure Impact on Children’s Activities in Cagliari (Italy) with the Tool “Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS)”

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