A triage approach to improve the relevance of marine ecosystem services assessments

Pendleton, Linwood H.; Mongruel, Rémi; Beaumont, Nicola; Hooper, Tara; Charles, Mahé

doi:10.3354/meps11111

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“…Similarly, the protection of forest and water is also important because they also comprise of high ecosystem services value. This could be accomplished through planning protocols and setting the sustainability targets for local ecosystem services by using different decision analysis methods such as triage planning [74] and spatial optimization algorithms [20,75]. This could reduce the future hazard for ESV.…”

Section: Implication For Planning Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of land use land cover changes on ecosystem service value – A case study of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao in South China

2020

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The rapid increase in anthropogenic activities, socioeconomic development, and land use land cover (LULC) changes since the opening of economic reforms (1978), have changed the ecosystem service value (ESV) in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao (GKHM) region located in South China. This leads to the requirement of a significant tailored analysis of ecosystem services regarding incisive and relevant planning to ensure sustainability at regional level. This study focuses on the use of Landsat satellite imagery to quantify the precise impact of LULC changes on the ecosystem services in GHKM over the past three decades . The most renowned established unit value transfer method has been employed to calculate the ESV. The results show that the total ecosystem service value in GHKM has decreased from 680.23 billion CNY in 1986 to 668.45 billion CNY in 2017, mainly due to the decrease in farmland and fishponds. This overall decrease concealed the more dynamic and complex nature of the individual ESV. The most significant decrease took place in the values of water supply (-22.20 billion CNY, -14.72%), waste treatment (-20.77 billion CNY, −14.63%), and food production (-7.96 billion CNY, −33.18%). On the other hand, the value of fertile soil formation and retention (6.28 billion CNY, +7.26%) and recreation and culture (5.09 billion CNY, +12.91%) increased. Furthermore, total ESV and ESV per capita decreased significantly with the continuous increase in total gross domestic product (GDP) and GDP per capita. A substantial negative correlation exists between farmland ESV and GDP indicating human encroachment into a natural and semi natural ecosystems. The results suggest that in the rapidly urbanizing region, the protection of farmland and to control the intrusion of urban areas has marked an important societal demand and a challenge to the local government. This required a pressing need for smart LULC planning and to improve policies and regulation to guarantee ecosystem service sustainability for acceptable life quality in the study area and other fast expanding urban areas in China.

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Section: Implication For Planning Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of land use land cover changes on ecosystem service value – A case study of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao in South China

2020

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“…Others have argued that conventional TEV cannot account for the full range of sociocultural and ecological values from CME services. They propose a broader array of participatory and stakeholder involvement approaches for a more complete evaluation of ecosystem values in the planning process, e.g., [84,[88][89][90].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Elusive Quest for Valuation of Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services

Milon

Álvarez

2019

Water

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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.

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“…The underpinning philosophy of the ICM process is to identify potential synergies and conflicts of different management options within an entire catchment and assess how they could remediate existing problems or those that may arise in the future. Integrated, ecosystem-based management, has so far been more widely utilised in marine ecosystem management [58][59][60], but has potential for catchment management due to the strong interactions between ecosystem services and the involvement of multiple stakeholders. These so-called ecosystem service-based management approaches should assess the delivery of ecosystem services and disservices, and aim to better understand ecosystem functioning and interdependencies while acknowledging uncertainties [61].…”

Section: Ecosystem Service-based Approaches and Integrated Catchment mentioning

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Managing Multiple Catchment Demands for Sustainable Water Use and Ecosystem Service Provision

Stosch¹,

Oliver²

2017

Water

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Ensuring water, food and energy security for a growing world population represents a 21st century catchment management challenge. Failure to recognise the complexity of interactions across ecosystem service provision can risk the loss of other key environmental and socioeconomic benefits from the natural capital of catchment systems. In particular, the ability of soil and water to meet human needs is undermined by uncertainties around climate change effects, ecosystem service interactions and conflicting stakeholder interests across catchments. This critical review draws from an extensive literature to discuss the benefits and challenges of utilising an ecosystem service approach for integrated catchment management (ICM). State-of-the-art research on ecosystem service assessment, mapping and participatory approaches is evaluated and a roadmap of the key short-and longer-term research needs for maximising landscape-scale ecosystem service provision from catchments is proposed.

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A triage approach to improve the relevance of marine ecosystem services assessments

Cited by 31 publications

References 10 publications

Impact of land use land cover changes on ecosystem service value – A case study of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao in South China

Impact of land use land cover changes on ecosystem service value – A case study of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao in South China

The Elusive Quest for Valuation of Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services

Managing Multiple Catchment Demands for Sustainable Water Use and Ecosystem Service Provision

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