Requirements for adaptive governance of groundwater ecosystem services: insights from Sandveld (South Africa), Upper Guadiana (Spain) and Spree (Germany)

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Knüppe ◽  
Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Adaptive Governance

Mountains as a critical source of ecosystem services: the case of the Drakensberg, South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1035-1052 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Ngwenya ◽  
E. Torquebiau ◽  
J. W. H. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Ecosystem Services

scholarly journals Exploring Farmers’ Management Practices and Values of Ecosystem Services in an Agroecosystem Context—A Case Study from the Eastern Cape, South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Junior Choruma ◽  
Oghenekaro Nelson Odume
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Agricultural Management ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Provisioning Ecosystem Services

Globally, farmers remain the key ecosystem managers responsible for increasing food production while simultaneously reducing the associated negative environmental impacts. However, research investigating how farmers’ agricultural management practices are influenced by the values they assign to ecosystem services is scarce in South Africa. To address this gap, a survey of farmers’ agricultural management practices and the values they assigned towards ecosystem services was conducted in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Results from the survey show that farmers assign a high value on food provisioning ecosystem services compared to other ecosystem services. Irrigation and fertiliser decisions were mostly based on achieving maximum crop yields or good crop quality. The majority of farmers (86%) indicated a willingness to receive payments for ecosystem services (PES) to manage their farms in a more ecosystems-oriented manner. To encourage farmers to shift from managing ecosystems for single ecosystem services such as food provision to managing ecosystems for multiple ecosystem services, market-oriented plans such as PES may be employed. Effective measures for sustainable intensification of food production will depend on the inclusion of farmers in the development of land management strategies and practices as well as increasing farmers’ awareness and knowledge of the ecosystem services concept.

Adaptive governance to promote ecosystem services in urban green spaces

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Odom Green ◽  
Ahjond S. Garmestani ◽  
Sandra Albro ◽  
Natalie C. Ban ◽  
Adam Berland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces

The relevance of ecosystem services to land reform policies: Insights from South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 104939
Author(s):  
Hayley S. Clements ◽  
Alta De Vos ◽  
Joana Carlos Bezerra ◽  
Kaera Coetzer ◽  
Kristine Maciejewski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Reform

scholarly journals Integrating Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Valuing Smallholder Livestock and Poultry Production in Three Villages in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon C Herd-Hoare ◽  
Charlie M. Shackleton
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Poultry Production ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Relative Value ◽  
Tick Borne Disease ◽  
Ecosystem Disservices

This study presents an integrated examination of both the ecosystem services (ES) and ecosystem disservices (EDS) associated with smallholder animal husbandry in rural livelihoods in three villages in southeast South Africa. It recognises the contribution of ES supporting and resulting from smallholder livestock and poultry production, but also details the limiting factors or EDS, such as tick-borne disease, birds of prey or unpalatable rangeland, produced by the same system. Using a mixed-methods approach, including focus group discussions with various Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) activities, key informant interviews, household surveys and land-use change mapping on GIS, we consider the relative value and benefits from ES after the effects of EDS, as well as the management and strategies that households adopt to minimise EDS.

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