scholarly journals Perspectives for environmental conservation and ecosystem services on coupled rural–urban systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva ◽  
Marjorie Delgado Alves Rodrigues ◽  
Simone Aparecida Vieira ◽  
Mateus Batistella ◽  
Juliana Farinaci
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Urban Systems

scholarly journals Enabling Green and Blue Infrastructure to Improve Contributions to Human Well-Being and Equity in Urban Systems

BioScience ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 566-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Andersson ◽  
Johannes Langemeyer ◽  
Sara Borgström ◽  
Timon McPhearson ◽  
Dagmar Haase ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Technological Factors ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Variable Distribution

AbstractThe circumstances under which different ecosystem service benefits can be realized differ. The benefits tend to be coproduced and to be enabled by multiple interacting social, ecological, and technological factors, which is particularly evident in cities. As many cities are undergoing rapid change, these factors need to be better understood and accounted for, especially for those most in need of benefits. We propose a framework of three systemic filters that affect the flow of ecosystem service benefits: the interactions among green, blue, and built infrastructures; the regulatory power and governance of institutions; and people's individual and shared perceptions and values. We argue that more fully connecting green and blue infrastructure to its urban systems context and highlighting dynamic interactions among the three filters are key to understanding how and why ecosystem services have variable distribution, continuing inequities in who benefits, and the long-term resilience of the flows of benefits.

scholarly journals The Interdependences between Sustainability and Their Lifestyle That Pre-Service Teachers Establish When Addressing Socio-Ecological Problems

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Esteve-Guirao ◽  
Mercedes Jaén García ◽  
Isabel Banos-González
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Three Components

In the training of pre-service teachers, promoting changes in everyday activities to favour environmental conservation is still a challenge. This paper discusses the main difficulties of pre-service teachers in the process of building relationships between sustainability and their lifestyle. For this purpose, a problem-based learning programme was designed, consisting of three socio-ecological problems. In each of them, we analysed three components which define these interdependences: pressures, importance and solutions for conservation. There were 72 participants in the whole programme and 1296 responses were assessed, by establishing three levels of sophistication for the relationships between sustainability and their lifestyle in each component. The pre-service teachers readily admitted the pressures on the environment exerted by certain everyday activities. In addition, they progressed on the identification of the importance of ecosystem services in their lives, and they pay attention to those services linked to socio-economic and cultural activities. The greatest difficulties lay in proposing solutions of conservation that involve changes in personal habits towards more-sustainable ones. These difficulties are discussed, as well as the educational implications that may be derived.

scholarly journals Method for the quantitative evaluation of ecosystem services in coastal regions

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e6234
Author(s):  
Tomonari Okada ◽  
Yugo Mito ◽  
Erina Iseri ◽  
Toshiyuki Takahashi ◽  
Takanori Sugano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Tidal Flats ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
The State ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Environmental Improvement ◽  
The Relationship

Wetlands, tidal flats, seaweed beds, and coral reefs are valuable not only as habitats for many species, but also as places where people interact with the sea. Unfortunately, these areas have declined in recent years, so environmental improvement projects to conserve and restore them are being carried out across the world. In this study, we propose a method for quantifying ecosystem services, that is, useful for the proper maintenance and management of artificial tidal flats, a type of environmental improvement project. With this method, a conceptual model of the relationship between each service and related environmental factors in natural and social systems was created, and the relationships between services and environmental factors were clarified. The state of the environmental factors affecting each service was quantified, and the state of those factors was reflected in the evaluation value of the service. As a result, the method can identify which environmental factors need to be improved and if the goal is to increase the value of the targeted tidal flat. The method demonstrates an effective approach in environmental conservation for the restoration and preservation of coastal areas.

Seizing Center Stage: Ecosystem Services, Live, at the Convention on Biological Diversity!

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Suarez ◽  
Catherine Corson
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
Project Financing ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Social

Over the past decade, the concept of ecosystem services has become a central guiding framework for environmental conservation. Techniques of valuation, payments to protect ecosystem services, and efforts to put a price on nature increasingly characterize environmental policy. We analyze the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP-10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as a critical moment in the production of ecosystem services as a discourse. Through analysis of specific examples of the rollout, performance, and strategic deployment of ecosystem services, particularly as embodied in The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project (TEEB) at CBD/COP-10, we illustrate how arguments justifying ecosystem services became persuasive and compelling in the social space of the meeting. We examine the prevalence of a narrative that relies on three successive claims: (1) conservation has failed to conserve biodiversity, which has catalyzed a pending ecological crisis; (2) this crisis is caused by incorrectly priced nature and insufficient financing for conservation; and (3) the economics of ecosystem services provides the means to attract new financial flows, to neutralize political opposition, and to save biodiversity. The CBD/COP-10, we argue, provided a stage for the performance of this narrative, the alignment of actors from the private, public and non-profit sectors around ecosystem services, and the institutionalization of its tenets in policy documents and project financing— all of which worked to constitute the hegemony of ecosystem services. We conclude by asserting that, as conservationists embrace ecosystem services, at the expense of alternative models, they reproduce it as a discourse, thus constituting and reinforcing its hegemony, and the conditions that originally limited their choices.

scholarly journals Ocena roli usług ekosystemów miejskich w zrównoważonym rozwoju lokalnym

2018 ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Lorek ◽  
Agnieszka Lorek ◽  
Sylwia Słupik
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Urban Ecosystems ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
The Eu

Ecosystem services are an important framework for linking ecological infrastructure to urban social infrastructure, which can benefit people and ecosystems. Designing, planning and managing of complex urban systems for health and wellbeing requires urban ecosystems that are both immune to systemic changes and managed sustainably. Literature review reveals that so far only several researchers have focused on urban ecosystem services (UES). The paper aims at assessing the importance of ecosystem services at the local level with an emphasis on urbanized areas. The basic conditions and barriers to the implementation of the concept of ecosystem services in the EU policy and local development have also been identified. The paper also presents solutions concerning the creation of integrated systems of providing such services by local governments and their monitoring.

scholarly journals Message for Solidarity: A Japanese Perspective on the Payment for Forest Ecosystem Services Developed over Centuries of History

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12846
Author(s):  
Ryoko Ishizaki ◽  
Shinju Matsuda
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Cooperative Relationships ◽  
Forest Ecosystem Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
Japanese Perspective ◽  
The Government

Payments for ecosystem/environmental services (PES) have emerged internationally as a new environmental conservation concept over the past two decades. By contrast, Japan has a centuries-long history of using various forms of PES. These schemes can be understood as solutions to interregional problems with forest ecosystem services that have been agreed upon and accepted by the society. This paper aims to consider the significance of PES with respect to cooperative relationships by examining historically formed solutions in Japan. The Japanese experience shows that rather than simply being a demonstration of monetary value, PES in upstream forests were a means of communication across regions, expressing interregional solidarity as a core concept. As connections among communities became less visible, the government artificially created solidarity through payments. The payments gradually shifted from having a socioeconomic meaning to having a psychological meaning. The government sought to substantiate the sense of solidarity by making individual users more aware of the meaning of payments. We can find the significance of this type of PES in the fact that payments can be a way to approach the issue of building solidarity by focusing on the function of payments as messengers rather than them merely having an economic value.

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