The authorship structure of “ecosystem services” as a transdisciplinary field of scholarship

Costanza, Robert; Kubiszewski, Ida

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2012.06.002

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“…Ecosystem services is a very attractive research field documented by a rapid increase in the amount of publications during the last decade (Costanza and Kubiszewski, 2012). This approach, providing valid arguments for nature protection, is increasingly being recognised for its importance in government policy and practice (Haines-Young and Potschin, 2008).…”

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Allotment gardens and parks: Provision of ecosystem services with an emphasis on biodiversity

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Mizgajski

Borysiak

2015

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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a b s t r a c tUrban areas, in particular, present unique challenges for the conservation of ecosystems. Allotment gardens (AGs) are an important greenspace feature of urban landscapes in Europe which have the potential to offer multiple social and bio-physical ecosystem services in addition to food production. This study is an attempt to assess and compare the ecosystem services provided by AGs in Manchester, UK, and Poznań, Poland as well as a comparison to city parks. The surveys included a detailed land cover characterisation and an assessment of cultivated and spontaneous plant species. There are differences in the land use characteristics in the two cities with a preference for vegetable growing and water recycling in Manchester, and a greater number of trees and a higher focus on recreation in Poznań. The consequences of these basic differences are discussed in terms of the ecosystem services that are provided by the two different AG types, and parks. In terms of ecology, there is higher species richness on AGs with a greater proportion of neophytes, which may potentially spread into cities. The species recorded in parks and AGs contained a lot of native characteristics of urban, ruderal plant communities.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Allotment gardens and parks: Provision of ecosystem services with an emphasis on biodiversity

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Mizgajski

Borysiak

2015

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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“…Overall, however, Russia is hardly present in the Ecosystem Services Partnership organization (ESP), and Russian authors are hardly a factor at all in international ES literature (Costanza and Kubishewski 2012). This is on the one hand due to deficits in work on the object of this research, including deficits of a methodological nature, and on the other to the reticence of the publication activities in international English-language journals.…”

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The current state of knowledge of ecosystems and ecosystem services in Russia: A status report

Bukvareva

Grunewald

Бобылев

et al. 2015

Ambio

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This paper focusses on a conceptual overview of ways to address a comprehensive analysis of ecosystem services (ES) in a country as large and heterogeneous as Russia. As a first step, a methodology for assessing the services for the federal subjects of Russia was chosen, i.e., its constituent provinces and similar entities, in physical terms. Russia harbors a great diversity of natural conditions and ecosystems which are suppliers of ES, and likewise a variety of the socio-economic conditions that shape the demand for these services and their consumption. The methodological approach described permits several important tasks to be addressed: the evaluation of the degree of satisfaction of people's needs for ES, the identification of ecological donor and acceptor regions, and zoning of the country's territory for ES assessment. The next step is to prepare a prototype of a National Report on ES in Russia, for which we are presenting the planned structure.

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“…Hence, in the tradeoff of economic development and environmental sustainability, the effects of human activities on ecosystem services cannot be ignored. With the in-depth studies on ecosystem service valuation, the study tends to change from multi-discipline research to interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies, meanwhile, the research angle is turning to more problem-oriented approaches [10][11][12][13]. At present, there are such case studies in which the variations in ecosystem service values associated with land-use changes due to demographic factors, urbanization, economic conditions, and different scale policies are assessed [6,8,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

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The Effects of Rural Settlement Evolution on the Surrounding Land Ecosystem Service Values: A Case Study in the Eco-Fragile Areas, China

Wang

et al. 2017

IJGI

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General declines in ecosystem service values (ESV) are acknowledged worldwide; however, rather few studies have quantitatively analyzed the interrelationship between changing rural settlements and values of ecosystem services. This study used the county of Tongyu in West Jilin Province, China, as a case study to analyze how changing rural settlements impact the values of ecosystem services on surrounding land in the eco-fragile areas during 1997-2010. Quantitative analytical techniques mainly include the buffer analysis and an ecosystem services valuation. The results show that as the area of rural settlements increased in 1997-2010, the structure of land ecosystems had changed significantly during this time period, causing a change in ESV that was observed with a decline by 1.87 billion yuan and above 20%. The degradation of grasslands, wetlands, and water areas, as well as the farmland reclamation, were the main drivers of the decreases in ESV. The effects of the increased rural settlements on the distribution and variation of ESV were larger than the decreased rural settlements, especially the new rural settlements whose effect was largest, and the effect of changing rural settlements on the values of ecosystem services on the surrounding land was significant in proximity to these settlements. In conclusion, the effects of rural settlement evolution on the natural environment were obvious in the eco-fragile areas. Thus the encroachment of rural settlements still requires enhanced supervision in land management practices, and the scale and spatial distribution of rural settlements should be befittingly allocated in the eco-fragile areas to reduce the disturbance to the ecosystem.

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The authorship structure of “ecosystem services” as a transdisciplinary field of scholarship

Cited by 139 publications

References 18 publications

Allotment gardens and parks: Provision of ecosystem services with an emphasis on biodiversity

Allotment gardens and parks: Provision of ecosystem services with an emphasis on biodiversity

The current state of knowledge of ecosystems and ecosystem services in Russia: A status report

The Effects of Rural Settlement Evolution on the Surrounding Land Ecosystem Service Values: A Case Study in the Eco-Fragile Areas, China

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