Trade-off analysis of ecosystem services in Eastern Europe

Ruijs, Arjan; Wossink, Ada; Kortelainen, Mika; Alkemade, Rob; Schulp, Catharina J.E.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2013.04.002

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“…The boundary of the set is comprised of combinations such that one ES cannot be improved without reducing the others White et al, 2012) (Fig.1). Such combinations often called "Pareto optimal" or "Pareto efficient" (Bekele et al, 2013;Lester et al, 2013;Ruijs et al, 2013), although strictly speaking the Pareto criterion applies to people, not to services or goods (Varian, 2010). The terms "Pareto optimality" and "Pareto efficiency" are used interchangeably in the literature, even though the former is often used as a normative criterion indicating desirable situations, while the latter implies a more neutral description in positive economics (Berthonnet and Delclite, 2014).…”

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“…Although production frontiers can be used with more than two ES or dimensions (for an example of fourdimension frontier see Ruijs et al, 2013), applications to pairs of ES are the most common because they are theoretical simple, easily displayed graphically, and a first step before analyzing multivariate relationships (Chan et al, 2006;Lee and Lautenbach, 2016;RaudseppHearne et al, 2010). The slope of the frontier at a point represents the marginal ES2 loss when ES1 increases, or vice-versa .…”

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“…Multivariate methods including multidimensional production frontiers (Ruijs et al, 2013), PCA (e.g. Clec'h et al, 2016;Lavorel et al, 2011;Maes et al, 2012;Vigl et al, 2016), factor analysis (e.g.…”

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“…Recently, some studies have addressed the issues of trade-offs between ESs through a three-dimensional production possibility set and gave relevant information about the possible combinations of outputs (e.g., White et al, 2012, for marine ecosystem; Ruijs et al 2013, for agriculture; Robert, 2013, for forest ecosystem). In the latter study, simulations revealed a clear trade-off between the biodiversity indicator and the timber profit.…”

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How does economic research contribute to the management of forest ecosystem services?

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Stenger

2018

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& Key message More and more environmental and resource economists are taking a particular interest in research on forest ecosystem services (FES), especially in a context of climate change. Spatial and temporal issues are crucial to economic analyses and for the design of conservation policies. Interdisciplinary research involving ecological and economic disciplines is a prerequisite for the more effective management of forest ecosystems. & Context Economists define non-market ecosystem services (ES) as public or common goods due to their characteristics of non-rivalry in terms of consumption and/or non-excludability. Just because they do not have a price does not mean that ES have no economic value because their social benefits are undoubtedly considerable. These features, associated with the market demand for timber and a poor climate risk assessment, may lead to the under-provision of non-market forest ES and the over-harvesting of timber. & Aims In this article, we review research questions that are central to the enhancement of FES provision. Beyond the economic modelling of the joint provision of FES, we focus on issues related to the design of public policies to guide forest management. The objective is to provide crucial insights concerning the importance of a spatial and sustainable provision of FES. & Results First, we provide an economic interpretation of the FES concept and a review of economic models of forest management. Second, we explain how spatial and temporal dimensions of FES can have major implications on their supply and demand. Both dimensions explain why FESs have to be taken into account in production decisions and public policies (including the design of payment for environmental services (PESs)). & Conclusion A better understanding of FES provision and public policies to be enhanced is not possible without accounting for spatial and temporal dimensions. This helps to analyse the impact of intervention on FES and the cost-effectiveness of economic instruments, implying a coordinated effort to bring together ecological and economic data and models.

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“…Identification of trade-offs and synergies among services is of central importance to this aim (Raudsepp-Hearne et al 2010, Ruijs et al 2013. For example, maintenance of carbon stocks and biodiversity, two of the most important services provided by tropical dry forest landscapes , PortilloQuintero et al 2015, depends on the interplay between trade-offs at the local scale driving deforestation and socioeconomic factors at landscape or regional scales that act to modulate forest clearance.…”

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Trade-offs between ecosystem services and alternative pathways toward sustainability in a tropical dry forest region

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. 2016. Trade-offs between ecosystem services and alternative pathways toward sustainability in a tropical dry forest region. Ecology and Society 21 (4) ABSTRACT. The design of strategies aimed at sustainable resource management requires an understanding of the trade-offs between the ecosystem services at stake, to determine appropriate ways in which to navigate them. We assess trade-offs between forage production for cattle ranching and the maintenance of carbon stocks or tree diversity in a Mexican tropical dry forest. Trade-offs between pairs of services were assessed by identifying their efficiency frontiers at both site and landscape scales. We also estimated service outcomes under current and hypothetical land-management conditions. We found stark trade-offs between fodder and carbon stocks and between fodder and tree species richness at the site scale. At the landscape scale, the efficiency frontier was concave, with a much less pronounced trade-off in the fodder-species richness case. Our estimates of current service supply levels showed a reduction of 18-21% for C stock and 41-43% for fodder biomass, relative to the maximum feasible values along the efficiency frontier. Choice of the optimum management strategy to reduce such inefficiency depended on deforestation level: secondary forest regeneration was most suitable when deforestation is low, whereas increased fodder productivity in the pastures is best when deforestation is high. Pasture enrichment with forage trees and secondary forest growth are potential management alternatives for achieving sustainability given the range of enabling ecological factors and to balance ecological and social sustainability given the requirements and preferences of local stakeholders. Given that analogous trade-offs are found across the tropics, this work contributes to reconciling tropical forest maintenance and its use for sustainable rural livelihoods.

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Trade-off analysis of ecosystem services in Eastern Europe

Cited by 70 publications

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Relationships Between Ecosystem Services: Comparing Methods for Assessing Tradeoffs and Synergies

Relationships Between Ecosystem Services: Comparing Methods for Assessing Tradeoffs and Synergies

How does economic research contribute to the management of forest ecosystem services?

Trade-offs between ecosystem services and alternative pathways toward sustainability in a tropical dry forest region

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