Evaluating the contribution of forest ecosystem services to societal welfare through linking dynamic ecosystem modelling with economic valuation

Zanchi, Giuliana; Brady, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.101011

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“…Finally, to bring the above analysis into the larger scale management or policy context, the changes to ES are often considered in cost-benefit analysis (TEEB 2010 ; Zanchi and Brady 2019 ). This requires the economic evaluation of the welfare impacts of the changes to ES associated with the alternative management scenarios.…”

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A Bayesian Modelling Framework for Integration of Ecosystem Services into Freshwater Resources Management

Bruen

Hallouin

Christie

et al. 2022

Environmental Management

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Models of ecological response to multiple stressors and of the consequences for ecosystem services (ES) delivery are scarce. This paper describes a methodology for constructing a BBN combining catchment and water quality model output, data, and expert knowledge that can support the integration of ES into water resources management. It proposes “small group” workshop methods for elucidating expert knowledge and analyses the areas of agreement and disagreement between experts. The model was developed for four selected ES and for assessing the consequences of management options relating to no-change, riparian management, and decreasing or increasing livestock numbers. Compared with no-change, riparian management and a decrease in livestock numbers improved the ES investigated to varying degrees. Sensitivity analysis of the expert information in the BBN showed the greatest disagreements between experts were mainly for low probability situations and thus had little impact on the results. Conversely, in our applications, the best agreement between experts tended to occur for the higher probability, more likely, situations. This has implications for the practical use of this type of model to support catchment management decisions. The complexity of the relationship between management measures, the water quality and ecological responses and resulting changes in ES must not be a barrier to making decisions in the present time. The interactions of multiple stressors further complicate the situation. However, management decisions typically relate to the overall character of solutions and not their detailed design, which can follow once the nature of the solution has been chosen, for example livestock management or riparian measures or both.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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A Bayesian Modelling Framework for Integration of Ecosystem Services into Freshwater Resources Management

Bruen

Hallouin

Christie

et al. 2022

Environmental Management

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“…MCDA is a multi-step process comprising a family of methods to structure and formalize the comparison of management scenarios to support the decision-making (Pesce et al, 2018; Zanchi and Brady, 2019). We firstly explore the possible trade-off between the two objectives (minimizing BL and EI) through the identification of the Pareto front.…”

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Maximize crop production and environmental sustainability: insights from an ecophysiological model of plant-pest interactions and multi-criteria decision analysis

Zaffaroni

Bevacqua

2022

Preprint

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Satisfying the demand for agricultural products while also protecting the environment from negative impacts of agriculture is a major challenge for crop management. We used an ecophysiological model of plant-pest interaction and multi-criteria decision analysis to optimize crop management when considering two contrasting objectives: (1) maximizing crop production and (2) minimizing environmental impact related to fertilization, irrigation and pesticide deployment. The model provides an indicator of crop production for 27 management scenarios, obtained combining three levels of fertilization, irrigation and pesticide use, respectively. We computed the environmental impact relevant to each management scenario by means of a weighted sum of costs assigned to fertilization, irrigation and pesticide use. We identified the optimal scenarios with respect to the considered objectives analysing the Pareto front. These scenarios were mostly characterized by high fertilization and no pesticide use. We evaluated the multi-functionality of the optimal scenarios by mean of the Gini coefficient: the scenario better assuring the equality between the two objectives was characterized by high fertilization, intermediate irrigation and no pesticide. Although our results remain qualitative and not immediately transferable to agronomic practices, our analytical framework provides a useful tool to evidence trade-offs among two contrasting objectives and provide solutions to act in an efficient way by leaving a certain degree of freedom to the political decision maker.

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“…In terms of environmental benefits, the unnecessary reapplication of additional pesticides doses could be avoided, thus protecting the environment, the natural habitats in the agricultural buffer zones, as well as the ecosystem services they provide. Destruction of ecosystem services on a large scale (both regionally and globally) has been discussed in the literature for many years, while the negative effects of these changes are very difficult to evaluate economically (Zanchi and Brady 2019;Kay et al 2019;Briner et al 2013). Lessening negative impacts of pesticide applications would also protect those humans and pollinators who naturally are a chain component of the Earth ecosystem.…”

Section: B Agricultural Sectormentioning

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Potential Socioeconomic and Environmental Benefits and Beneficiaries of UAS Atmospheric Profiles from a 3D Mesonet

Fiebrich

Ziolkowska

Chilson

et al. 2021

Weather, Climate, and Society

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In recent years, technological developments in engineering and meteorology have provided the opportunity to introduce innovative extensions to traditional surface mesonets through the application of UAS (unmanned aircraft systems). This new approach of measuring vertical profiles of weather variables by means of UAS in the atmospheric boundary layer, in addition to surface stations, has been termed a 3D mesonet.Technological innovations of a potential 3D mesonet have recently been described in the literature. However, a broader question remains about potential socio-economic and environmental benefits and beneficiaries of this new extension. Given that the concept of a 3D mesonet is a new idea, studies about socio-economic and environmental advantages of this network (compared to traditional mesonets) do not appear to exist in the peer reviewed literature.This paper aims to fill this gap by providing a first perspective on potential benefits and ripple effects of a 3D mesonet, addressing both the added-value and prevented losses in specific sectoral applications and for different groups. A better understanding of qualitative economic aspects related to a 3D mesonet can facilitate future developments of this technology for more cost-effective applications and to mitigate environmental challenges in more efficient ways.

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Evaluating the contribution of forest ecosystem services to societal welfare through linking dynamic ecosystem modelling with economic valuation

Cited by 27 publications

References 58 publications

A Bayesian Modelling Framework for Integration of Ecosystem Services into Freshwater Resources Management

A Bayesian Modelling Framework for Integration of Ecosystem Services into Freshwater Resources Management

Maximize crop production and environmental sustainability: insights from an ecophysiological model of plant-pest interactions and multi-criteria decision analysis

Potential Socioeconomic and Environmental Benefits and Beneficiaries of UAS Atmospheric Profiles from a 3D Mesonet

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