Ecosystem Services and River Basin Management

Brauman, Kate A.; Meulen, Suzanne van der; Brils, Jos

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38598-8_10

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“…For example, evaluations of the improvements to crop yield provided by pollinators living in forest fragments often assume that no pollination benefits are provided when this habitat is destroyed. The total pollination services provided by a forest patch are thus an implicit comparison with an ecosystem that provides zero benefit . For hydrologic services, however, a zero benefit state is not a rational assumption; water will cycle over any land‐cover type, though hydrologic fluxes ranging from precipitation inputs to surface‐groundwater partitioning may be affected by land‐use change …”

Section: Characteristics Of the Hydrologic Services Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The ecosystem services framework does not require economic valuation, however. Ecosystem services can provide insight and guidance simply by identifying services of importance to people and indicating how delivery of those services might change …”

Section: Characteristics Of the Hydrologic Services Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Governments are requiring ecosystem services be included in cost‐benefit analysis, businesses are using ecosystem services to integrate environmental protection with their bottom line, and conservation organizations are promoting ecosystem services to appeal to new audiences and to align their activities with poverty alleviation projects . An additional reason ecosystem services appear to have gained traction as a management approach is because they circumvent the language of conflict between people and nature . Protecting or restoring ecosystems for benefits provided to specific people instead illuminates synergies and trade‐offs among various user groups.…”

Section: Management To Enhance Hydrologic Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The total pollination services provided by a forest patch are thus an implicit comparison with an ecosystem that provides zero benefit. 22 For hydrologic services, however, a zero benefit state is not a rational assumption; water will cycle over any landcover type, though hydrologic fluxes ranging from precipitation inputs to surface-groundwater partitioning may be affected by land-use change. 23 To evaluate the impact of plausible land-use transitions on groundwater recharge in leeward Hawai'i, we developed water budgets for multiple forest and pasture sites.…”

Section: Comparing the Effects Of Land Cover On Water Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…43 An additional reason ecosystem services appear to have gained traction as a management approach is because they circumvent the language of conflict between people and nature. 22,44 Protecting or restoring ecosystems for Volume 2, July/August 2015 benefits provided to specific people instead illuminates synergies and trade-offs among various user groups.…”

Section: Management To Enhance Hydrologic Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hydrologic ecosystem services: linking ecohydrologic processes to human well‐being in water research and watershed management

Brauman

2015

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Ecosystem services, the benefits ecosystems provide to people, and hydrologic services, the subset of terrestrial ecosystem services related to water, appear with increasing frequency in water resources research and watershed management. Linking biophysical function to human well-being is central to the theory of ecosystem services, so distinctive characteristics of research on hydrologic services arise from addressing the way people are affected by ecohydrologic processes. However, based on a rapid scoping of 381 peer-reviewed studies of hydrologic services, I identified only a small fraction that appear to effectively make the link from biophysical processes to people. In their abstracts, many of the reviewed articles use the language of hydrologic services but appear to be essentially disciplinary studies, accounting for either biophysical functioning or specific beneficiaries in their analysis, but not both. In addition to guiding research, the direct link from biophysical processes to human well-being makes hydrologic services an appealing foundation for watershed management. The hydrologic services framework has been used to assess conservation benefits, evaluate management practices, prioritize siting, account for externalities, and perform trade-off or cost-benefit analysis. Hydrologic services hold potential for novel research and effective watershed management, but challenges remain in executing interdisciplinary research and in addressing the idiosyncratic demands of local management.

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Section: Characteristics Of the Hydrologic Services Approachmentioning

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Section: Characteristics Of the Hydrologic Services Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Management To Enhance Hydrologic Servicesmentioning

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Section: Comparing the Effects Of Land Cover On Water Resourcesmentioning

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Section: Management To Enhance Hydrologic Servicesmentioning

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Ecosystem services: Challenges and opportunities for hydrologic modeling to support decision making

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Ecosystem characteristics and processes provide significant value to human health and wellbeing, and there is growing interest in quantifying those values. Of particular interest are water-related ecosystem services and the incorporation of their value into local and regional decision making. This presents multiple challenges and opportunities to the hydrologic-modeling community. To motivate advances in water-resources research, we first present three common decision contexts that draw upon an ecosystemservice framework: scenario analysis, payments for watershed services, and spatial planning. Within these contexts, we highlight the particular challenges to hydrologic modeling, and then present a set of opportunities that arise from ecosystem-service decisions. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations regarding how we can prioritize our work to support decisions based on ecosystem-service valuation.

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Restore or retreat? saltwater intrusion and water management in coastal wetlands

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Kaplan

2017

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Coastal wetlands perform a unique set of physical, chemical, and biological functions, which provide billions of dollars of ecosystem services annually. These wetlands also face myriad environmental and anthropogenic pressures, which threaten their ecological condition and undermine their capacity to provide these services. Coastal wetlands have adapted to a dynamic range of natural disturbances over recent millennia, but face growing pressures from human population growth and coastal development. These anthropogenic pressures are driving saltwater intru sion (SWI) in many coastal systems. The position of coastal wetlands at the terrestrial-marine interface also makes them vulnerable to increasing rates of sea level rise and changing climate. Critically, anthropogenic and natural stressors to coastal wetlands can act synergistically to create negative, and sometimes catastrophic, consequences for both human and natural systems. This review focused on the drivers and impacts of SWI in coastal wetlands and has two goals: (1) to synthesize understanding of coastal wetland change driven by SWI and (2) to review approaches for improved water management to mitigate SWI in impacted systems. While we frame this review as a choice between restoration and retreat, we acknowledge that choices about coastal wetland management are context-specific and may be confounded by competing management goals. In this setting, the choice between restoration and retreat can be prioritized by identifying where the greatest return in ecosystem services can be achieved relative to restoration dollars invested. We conclude that restoration and proactive water management is feasible in many impacted systems.

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Ecosystem Services and River Basin Management

Cited by 19 publications

References 51 publications

Hydrologic ecosystem services: linking ecohydrologic processes to human well‐being in water research and watershed management

Hydrologic ecosystem services: linking ecohydrologic processes to human well‐being in water research and watershed management

Ecosystem services: Challenges and opportunities for hydrologic modeling to support decision making

Restore or retreat? saltwater intrusion and water management in coastal wetlands

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