Trade-offs between maintenance of ecosystem services and socio-economic development in rural mountainous communities in southern Spain: A dynamic simulation approach

Impacts of land use change on ecosystem services and implications for human well-being in Spanish drylands

“…For example, Butler et al (2011) identified a direct trade-off between food and fiber production versus water quality regulation, and Rodríguez et al (2006) demonstrated how actions to enhance the supply of food and timber have led to declines in nutrient cycling and flood regulation services. Other authors have identified trade-offs between economic development and the provision of landscape aesthetic value and water supply for human use (Vidal-Legaz et al, 2013).…”

Understanding the decline and resilience loss of a long-lived social-ecological system: insights from system dynamics

“…However, we must identify and collect concrete policy measures and management options (suggested by local actors), and then integrate them into the dynamic simulation model to assess which combination of measures more efficiently reduces the depopulation process or even reverses it, among other possible management goals. In this way, the dynamic simulation model will be converted into a useful tool to more efficiently guide decision-making processes and the use of resources (Martínez-Fernández 2000, Pérez et al 2012, Vidal 2013, Banos-González et al 2016). …”

Priority areas in municipality planning: ecosystem services, environmental impact assessments and research areas

“…The change towards an ES approach reinforces the need to understand necessary biological/social conditions for the maintenance and resilience of ecosystem properties and functions that underpins the ES values, and these are pressing issues and fundamental within the ES field (Guerry et al 2015). Another primary objective of the ES approach is to evaluate how provisions, structure, and aesthetic values are measured and determined (TEEB 2012, MEA 2005. In order to implement ES at the municipal level, with its complex components, may require closer collaboration between planners and researchers, possibly in case studies and scenario analyses.…”

“…In addition, tool development and identification of barriers for ES implementation is needed. Further, there is a concern that lay respondents usually lack sufficient insight into ecosystem life support functions and processes to be able to make good decisions (Vidal-Legaz et al 2013, Vihervaara et al 2010. Without sufficient familiarity with ecosystem concepts and appropriate tools, respondents are not able to make meaningful preference statements in judging ES (Barkmann et al 2008).…”