scholarly journals Ecosystem services—science, policy and practice: Introduction to the journal and the inaugural issue

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon C. Braat
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Services Science

scholarly journals Ecosystem services are inclusive and deliver multiple values. A comment on the concept of nature's contributions to people

One Ecosystem ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. e24720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Maes ◽  
Benjamin Burkhard ◽  
Davide Geneletti
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy Forum ◽  
Recent Policy

A recent policy forum article in Science by Díaz et al. (2018) introduces nature's contributions to people (NCP) as an innovative approach to inform policy and decision-making. According to the authors, the NCP concept extends beyond the notion of ecosystem services by incorporating a more inclusive and interdisciplinary approach. Here this claim is challenged. Based on our experiences in Europe, we argue that the science, policy and practice of ecosystem services have progressed much beyond a mere economic and ecological rationale.

Quantifying ecosystem services and indicators for science, policy and practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 161-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Alkemade ◽  
Benjamin Burkhard ◽  
Neville D. Crossman ◽  
Stoyan Nedkov ◽  
Katalin Petz
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice

Maximising the value of research on ecosystem services: Knowledge integration and guidance tools mediating the science, policy and practice interfaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 599-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Pérez-Soba ◽  
Peter Verweij ◽  
Heli Saarikoski ◽  
Paula A. Harrison ◽  
David N. Barton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Policy And Practice

The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Science-Policy Interface

Science ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 331 (6021) ◽  
pp. 1139-1140 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Perrings ◽  
A. Duraiappah ◽  
A. Larigauderie ◽  
H. Mooney
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Science Policy Interface ◽  
Services Science

Mapping and modelling ecosystem services for science, policy and practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Burkhard ◽  
Neville Crossman ◽  
Stoyan Nedkov ◽  
Katalin Petz ◽  
Rob Alkemade
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice

scholarly journals Connecting ecosystem services science and policy in the field

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
JB Ruhl ◽  
James Salzman ◽  
Craig Anthony Arnold ◽  
Robin Craig ◽  
Keith Hirokawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Services Science

Dryland Degradation and Expansion: Implications for Mexican Policies from the Earth System Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Gabriel Lopez Porras
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
The Earth

Despite international efforts to stop dryland degradation and expansion, current dryland pathways are predicted to result in large-scale migration, growing poverty and famine, and increasing climate change, land degradation, conflicts and water scarcity. Earth system science has played a key role in analysing dryland problems, and has been even incorporated in global assessments such as the ones made by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. However, policies addressing dryland degradation, like the ‘Mexican programme for the promotion of sustainable land management’, do not embrace an Earth system perspective, so they do not consider the complexity and non-linearity that underlie dryland problems. By exploring how this Mexican programme could integrate the Earth system perspective, this paper discusses how ’Earth system’ policies could better address dryland degradation and expansion in the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction: Mainstreaming ecosystem services into disaster risk reduction

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (24) ◽  
pp. 7362-7368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Reyers ◽  
Jeanne L. Nel ◽  
Patrick J. O’Farrell ◽  
Nadia Sitas ◽  
Deon C. Nel
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Storm Waves ◽  
Private And Public

Achieving the policy and practice shifts needed to secure ecosystem services is hampered by the inherent complexities of ecosystem services and their management. Methods for the participatory production and exchange of knowledge offer an avenue to navigate this complexity together with the beneficiaries and managers of ecosystem services. We develop and apply a knowledge coproduction approach based on social–ecological systems research and assess its utility in generating shared knowledge and action for ecosystem services. The approach was piloted in South Africa across four case studies aimed at reducing the risk of disasters associated with floods, wildfires, storm waves, and droughts. Different configurations of stakeholders (knowledge brokers, assessment teams, implementers, and bridging agents) were involved in collaboratively designing each study, generating and exchanging knowledge, and planning for implementation. The approach proved useful in the development of shared knowledge on the sizable contribution of ecosystem services to disaster risk reduction. This knowledge was used by stakeholders to design and implement several actions to enhance ecosystem services, including new investments in ecosystem restoration, institutional changes in the private and public sector, and innovative partnerships of science, practice, and policy. By bringing together multiple disciplines, sectors, and stakeholders to jointly produce the knowledge needed to understand and manage a complex system, knowledge coproduction approaches offer an effective avenue for the improved integration of ecosystem services into decision making.

scholarly journals New perspectives in ecosystem services science as instruments to understand environmental securities

2014 ◽  
Vol 369 (1639) ◽  
pp. 20120286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinando Villa ◽  
Brian Voigt ◽  
Jon D. Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Minimum Level ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Dynamic Expression ◽  
Services Science

As societal demand for food, water and other life-sustaining resources grows, the science of ecosystem services (ES) is seen as a promising tool to improve our understanding, and ultimately the management, of increasingly uncertain supplies of critical goods provided or supported by natural ecosystems. This promise, however, is tempered by a relatively primitive understanding of the complex systems supporting ES, which as a result are often quantified as static resources rather than as the dynamic expression of human–natural systems. This article attempts to pinpoint the minimum level of detail that ES science needs to achieve in order to usefully inform the debate on environmental securities, and discusses both the state of the art and recent methodological developments in ES in this light. We briefly review the field of ES accounting methods and list some desiderata that we deem necessary, reachable and relevant to address environmental securities through an improved science of ES. We then discuss a methodological innovation that, while only addressing these needs partially, can improve our understanding of ES dynamics in data-scarce situations. The methodology is illustrated and discussed through an application related to water security in the semi-arid landscape of the Great Ruaha river of Tanzania.

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