Current state of seagrass ecosystem services: Research and policy integration

2017 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 107-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ruiz-Frau ◽  
S. Gelcich ◽  
I.E. Hendriks ◽  
C.M. Duarte ◽  
N. Marbà
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Policy Integration ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Current State ◽  
Seagrass Ecosystem ◽  
Research And Policy

scholarly journals Expanding the suite of Cultural Ecosystem Services to include ingenuity, perspective, and life teaching

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachelle Gould ◽  
Noa Lincoln
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Research And Policy

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are a crucial but relatively understudied component of the ecosystem services framework. While the number and diversity of categories of other types of ES have steadily increased, CES categories are still largely defined by a few existing typologies. Based on our empirical data, we suggest that those typologies need updating. We analyzed data from interviews conducted in adjacent Hawaiian ecosystems — one agricultural and one forested. We found that current categories of CES do not capture the diversity and nuance of the nonmaterial benefits that people described receiving from ecosystems. We propose three new CES categories: ingenuity, life teaching, and perspective. We discuss issues of lumping and splitting CES categories, and advocate that creating categories for these emerging themes will help us to more fully capture nonmaterial benefits in ecosystem services research and policy.

scholarly journals Assessing People’s Values of Nature: Where Is the Link to Sustainability Transformations?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Stålhammar
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Central Task ◽  
Research And Policy

The efforts to measure people’s current preferences and values of ecosystem services raise questions about the link to sustainability transformations. The importance of taking social and cultural values of nature into account is increasingly recognised within ecosystem services research and policy. This notion is informing the development and application of social (or socio-cultural) valuation methods that seek to assess and capture non-material social and cultural aspects of benefits of ecosystems in non-monetary terms. Here, ‘values’ refer to the products of descriptive scientific assessments of the links between human well-being and ecosystems. This precise use of the values term can be contrasted with normative modes of understanding values, as underlying beliefs and moral principles about what is good and right, which also influence science and institutions. While both perspectives on values are important for the biodiversity and ecosystem services agenda, values within this space have mainly been understood in relation to assessments and descriptive modes of values. Failing to acknowledge the distinction between descriptive and normative modes bypasses the potential mismatch between people’s current values and sustainability transformations. Refining methodologies to more accurately describe social values risks simply giving us a more detailed account of what we already know—people in general do not value nature enough. A central task for values studies is to explore why or how peoples’ mindsets might converge with sustainability goals, using methods that go beyond assessing current states to incorporate change and transformation.

Prioritization of Ecosystem Services Research: Tampa Bay Demonstration Project

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Russell ◽  
John Rogers ◽  
Stephen Jordan ◽  
Darrin Dantin ◽  
James Harvey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Tampa Bay ◽  
Demonstration Project ◽  
Services Research

Advancing the frontier of urban ecosystem services research

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 149-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peleg Kremer ◽  
Erik Andersson ◽  
Timon McPhearson ◽  
Thomas Elmqvist
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Urban Ecosystem Services

scholarly journals The Elusive Quest for Valuation of Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1518 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Walter Milon ◽  
Sergio Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Geophysical Processes ◽  
Marine Ecosystem Services ◽  
Policy And Planning

Coastal and marine ecosystem (CME) services provide benefits to people through direct goods and services that may be harvested or enjoyed in situ and indirect services that regulate and support biological and geophysical processes now and in the future. In the past two decades, there has been an increase in the number of studies and journal articles designed to measure the economic value of the world’s CME services, although there is significantly less published research than for terrestrial ecosystems. This article provides a review of the literature on valuation of CME services along with a discussion of the theoretical and practical challenges that must be overcome to utilize valuation results in CME policy and planning at local, regional, and global scales. The review reveals that significant gaps exist in research and understanding of the broad range of CME services and their economic values. It also raises questions about the validity of aggregating ecosystem services as independent components to determine the value of a biome when there is little understanding of the relationships and feedbacks between ecosystems and the services they produce. Finally, the review indicates that economic valuation of CME services has had a negligible impact on the policy process in four main regions around the world. An alternative direction for CME services research would focus on valuing the world’s CME services in a wealth accounting framework.

scholarly journals Seagrass ecosystem services – What's next?

2018 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 145-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Mtwana Nordlund ◽  
Emma L. Jackson ◽  
Masahiro Nakaoka ◽  
Jimena Samper-Villarreal ◽  
Pedro Beca-Carretero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Seagrass Ecosystem
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