Putting ecosystem service models to work: conservation, management, and trade-offs

Polasky, Stephen; Caldarone, Giorgio; Duarte, Thomas Kaeo; Goldstein, Joshua; Hannahs, Neil; Ricketts, Taylor; Tallis, Heather

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199588992.003.0014

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“…In some cases, participatory initiatives create new opportunities for partnerships in the management of specific projects [33][34][35] either led by public agencies or grassroots groups [36,37], and possibly develop into more extensive sustainability programmes [38]. When participation is prompted for the strategic planning of green infrastructures and services [35,39,40], new links can be created among ecological, economic, and societal elements of urban sustainability [41].…”

Section: Conceptual Framework: Urban Sustainability and Citizen Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green(er) Cities and Their Citizens: Insights from the Participatory Budget of Lisbon

2021

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There is rising scholarly and political interest in participatory budgets and their potential to advance urban sustainability. This article aims to contribute to this field of study through the specific lens of the city of Lisbon’s experience as an internationally acknowledged leader in participatory budgeting. To this end, the article critically examines the lessons and potential contribution of the Lisbon Participatory Budget through a multimethod approach. Emerging trends and variations of citizen proposals, projects, votes, and public funding are analysed in tandem with emerging key topics that show links and trade-offs between locally embedded participation and the international discourse on urban sustainability. Our analysis reveals three interconnected findings: first, the achievements of the Lisbon Participatory Budget show the potential to counteract the dominant engineered approach to urban sustainability; second, trends and variations of the achievements depend on both citizens’ voice and the significant influence of the city council through policymaking; and, third, the shift towards a thematic Green Participatory Budget in 2020 was not driven by consolidated social and political awareness on the achievements, suggesting that more could be achieved through the 2021 urban sustainability oriented Participatory Budget. We conclude recommending that this kind of analysis should be systematically carried out and disseminated within city council departments, promoting much needed internal awareness of PBs’ potential as drivers of urban sustainability. We also identify further research needed into the sustainability potential of green PBs.

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Section: Conceptual Framework: Urban Sustainability and Citizen Participationmentioning

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Green(er) Cities and Their Citizens: Insights from the Participatory Budget of Lisbon

2021

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“…This fact implies that trade-offs between more trout and less water for irrigation will depend on the current flow of services and the value of each of them. Figure 3.1 can illustrate this point (based on Polasky et al 2011). Suppose that there are four political choices, regulations or measures that are considered for a particular river basin (points A, B, C and D in the figure) and that the costs of these measures are equal.…”

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“…This has analogies in reality for many kinds of ecosystem services and commercial and non-commercial uses of natural resources. Polasky et al (2011) modelled for a specific forest area a connection with this shape for expected number of protected species (yaxis) and potential economic result (x-axis) from different use of the same forest area. Their calculations show that by reducing the demand to yield a little, the number of species protected increased significantly.…”

Section: Trade-offs Between Goods and Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecosystem Services

Magnussen¹,

Hasler²,

Zandersen³

2014

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“…The PFWG and researchers developed a map legend with 65 land use and land cover categories that they used to develop scenario assumptions, which researchers then translated into mapped spatial patterns of land use and land cover using GIS-based models ). Ultimately, the PFWG and researchers developed three scenario families, each of which reflected the same expected population increase for the basin, but with different approaches to future urban and rural development and conservation of natural resources (Hulse et al 2002, Polasky et al 2011): (1) Plan Trend: Assumes that existing comprehensive land use plans are implemented as written. (2) Conservation: Places greater priority on natural ecosystem protection and restoration, while still reflecting a plausible balance among ecological, social, and economic considerations as defined by citizen stakeholders.…”

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Hydrologic futures: using scenario analysis to evaluate impacts of forecasted land use change on hydrologic services

Kepner

Ramsey

Brown³

et al. 2012

Ecosphere

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Abstract. Land cover and land use changes can substantially alter hydrologic ecosystem services.Water availability and quality can change with modifications to the type or amount of surface vegetation, the permeability of soil and other surfaces, and the introduction of contaminants through human activities. Efforts to understand and predict the effects of land use decisions on hydrologic services-and to use this information in decision making-are challenged by the complexities of ecosystem functioning and by the need to translate scientific information into a form that decision makers can use. Hydrologic modeling coupled with scenario analysis can (1) elucidate hydrologic responses to anticipated changes in land use and (2) improve the utility of scientific information for decision making in a manner that facilitates stakeholder involvement. Using a combination of general concepts and concrete examples, this paper summarizes hydrologic consequences of land use changes and describes the use of modeling and scenario analysis to inform decision making. Two case studies integrate the concepts raised in the paper and illustrate how an approach employing modeling and scenario analysis offers a potentially powerful way to link research on hydrologic services with decision making.

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Putting ecosystem service models to work: conservation, management, and trade-offs

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Green(er) Cities and Their Citizens: Insights from the Participatory Budget of Lisbon

Green(er) Cities and Their Citizens: Insights from the Participatory Budget of Lisbon

Ecosystem Services

Hydrologic futures: using scenario analysis to evaluate impacts of forecasted land use change on hydrologic services

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