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Qualitative assessment of supply and demand of ecosystem services
Ist Teil von
Water Bankruptcy in the Land of Plenty, 2016, p.233-258
Ort / Verlag
CRC Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The ecosystem services concept (MA 2005; de Groot et al., 2010; Haines-Young,
2011) has come to be acknowledged as an instrument that is useful in every step of
the process of sustainable environmental management. The subject has been studied
for decades (Costanza et al., 1997; Daily, 1997), but the term was introduces to
the general public in 2005. Ecosystem services are variously defined as “the benefits
people obtain from the ecosystems” (MA 2005) and “the contributions of ecosystem
structure and function-in combination with other inputs-to human well-being”
(Burkhard et al., 2012). A proper analysis of ecosystems services requires adoption of
a transdisciplinary research approach that integrates across scientific disciplines and
links environmental and socio-ecological concepts. The essence of this concept is in
the emphasis placed on understanding the inter-relationships between the ecological
variables while taking properly into account the presence of humans in the system.
Without consideration of the anthropogenic factor (i.e., people who benefit from the
ecosystem services and who are a major driver for environmental changes), the concept would not be able to sufficiently explain the functionality of an environmental
system. Moreover, the concept of Ecosystem Services (ES) is pivotal to human wellbeing. Ultimately, it is “stakeholder-driven concept” (Koschke et al., 2014) and so
it is essential for communication to occur among the relevant social, political, and
environmental units.