The economic values of global forest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis

Taye, Fitalew Agimass; Folkersen, Maja Vinde; Fleming, Christopher; Buckwell, Andrew; Mackey, Brendan; Diwakar, K.C.; Le, Dung; Hasan, Syezlin; Ange, Chantal Saint

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107145

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“…There is a growing interest in promoting ecosystem services-based responses to climate-related natural disasters that benefit smallholder farmers [ 36 , 37 , 38 ]. As an example, forests contribute to resilience through the structural defense against wind and soil erosion, water regulation, and provision of timber and non-timber forest products [ 39 ]. Coastal plants, such as mangrove, and salt marshes reduce tidal bore and erosion from storms and inflowing tides, while diminishing the saltwater intrusion and sediment deposition with organic matter [ 40 ].…”

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“…At the local level, smallholder farmers’ ability to utilize ecosystem services in and around farms helps them balance ecological and socioeconomic trade-offs, and thus support local food systems to cope with adversities [ 39 , 44 ]. Many smallholders are already implementing practices that maintain the food system while ensuring the continued provision of ecosystem services on which their household’s food security, income, and well-being depend [ 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 ].…”

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Considering Ecosystem Services in Food System Resilience

Varyvoda

Taren

2022

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The prevalence and severity of natural hazards pose a serious risk to food systems, undermining their function to provide food security and improved nutrition. The impact of such events is extensive, and the level of damage and recovery significantly depend on ecosystem services, including their own resilience capacity. This paper provides evidence that the role, value, and utilization of local ecosystem services are essential for food system resilience and for food security in parts of the world where high vulnerability and lack of coping capacity exist to combat climate change. Patterns of ecosystem services-based strategies were revealed that can be introduced to cope and adapt to climate-related natural hazards at the smallholder food system level. The study suggests that food system diversification, technological innovations and nature-based practices, and traditional and indigenous knowledge operationalized across the food system components have a potential for sustaining smallholder resilience in the face of natural hazards.

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Considering Ecosystem Services in Food System Resilience

Varyvoda

Taren

2022

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“…A worldwide upsurge in assessing the worth of ecosystem services has been observed, and this has increased scientific interest in the subject. At present, researchers in this field are focusing on the following aspects: (1) ecosystem services in important ecological areas such as river basins [6][7][8], nature reserves [9,10], and forests [11][12][13]; (2) the multiple perspectives of cultivated land protection [14][15][16], contraction scenarios [17,18], and landscape heterogeneity [19,20];…”

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A Bibliometric Analysis on the Effects of Land Use Change on Ecosystem Services: Current Status, Progress, and Future Directions

Xiao

2022

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Land use changes cause significant alterations in the land surface structure and significantly impact ecosystem services. Research on land use change (LUC) and ecosystem services has become one of the hotspots of interdisciplinary research in ecology and geography. Based on 1860 publications collected from the Web of Science Core CollectionTM (WoS), the top authors, top organizations, top journals, and subject categories were discussed in detail. For the number of published articles, Sustainability ranks first with 86 publications, providing significant contributions in domain. The keywords could be classified into six categories: land use/land cover change, conservation, biodiversity, policies and programmers, environmental change, and agriculture. Citations and reference co-citations were analyzed, and popular literature and co-cited literature in the field were identified. In the discussion, we focus on four important issues, including land use area changes, land use pattern changes, land use spatial pattern changes, and land use changes at different scales. The research framework in the field and the shortcomings of existing research are discussed as well. The main aim of the paper is to assist researchers in identifying potential gaps in the research that should be addressed in future research.

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“…Failure to account for stochasticity or other factors means that estimates of sustained yield do not have sufficient 'ecological margins' to accommodate such impacts on the stock available for logging. A further problem with the regulated forest approach is that it focuses almost exclusively on wood production, and other values, including key ecosystem services, are given limited consideration, thereby contravening the overarching objectives of ecologically sustainable forest management [8,11,20].…”

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Diversifying Forest Landscape Management—A Case Study of a Shift from Native Forest Logging to Plantations in Australian Wet Forests

Lindenmayer

Taylor

2022

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Natural forests have many ecological, economic and other values, and sustaining them is a challenge for policy makers and forest managers. Conventional approaches to forest management such as those based on maximum sustained yield principles disregard fundamental tenets of ecological sustainability and often fail. Here we describe the failure of a highly regulated approach to forest management focused on intensive wood production in the mountain ash forests of Victoria, Australia. Poor past management led to overcutting with timber yields too high to be sustainable and failing to account for uncertainties. Ongoing logging will have negative impacts on biodiversity and water production, alter fire regimes, and generate economic losses. This means there are few options to diversify forest management. The only ecologically and economically viable option is to cease logging mountain ash forests altogether and transition wood production to plantations located elsewhere in the state of Victoria. We outline general lessons for diversifying land management from our case study.

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The economic values of global forest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis

Cited by 102 publications

References 67 publications

Considering Ecosystem Services in Food System Resilience

Considering Ecosystem Services in Food System Resilience

A Bibliometric Analysis on the Effects of Land Use Change on Ecosystem Services: Current Status, Progress, and Future Directions

Diversifying Forest Landscape Management—A Case Study of a Shift from Native Forest Logging to Plantations in Australian Wet Forests

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