scholarly journals Integrating adaptive management and ecosystem services concepts to improve natural resource management: Challenges and opportunities

Circular ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell ◽  
James W. Boyd ◽  
Molly K. Macauley ◽  
Lynn Scarlett ◽  
Carl D. Shapiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

scholarly journals The Framework of Ecosystem Services for Economic Valuation Purposes: A Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-449
Author(s):  
Nguyen Minh Duc
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Past

Although humans need ecosystems and ecosystem services for their survival and well-being, most of the global ecosystems and the services that they provide have declined and/or degraded rapidly over the past few decades. In order to find the ways to sustainably use natural resources, substantial efforts have been made to measure and value the ecosystem services. The term ‘ecosystem service’ was interpreted in different ways in the literature. For making correct decisions in natural resource management, a consistent way of defining and classifying ecosystem services is needed for valuation purposes. This paper argued for the need to divide ecosystem services into intermediate and final services.

It’s about Time: Adaptive Resource Management, Environmental Governance, and Science Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristoffer Whitney
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Temporal Orientation ◽  
Adaptive Resource Management ◽  
Adaptive Resource

This article examines adaptive resource management (ARM) as it has been applied to the US horseshoe crab fishery over the past decade. As a critical yet constructive exercise, I have three goals: to suggest how adaptive management, for all its promise, can still be improved; to add a nuanced case study to the literatures on the quantification of nature and environmental decision-making; and to use the example of ARM to make certain temporal aspects of contemporary natural resource management more salient to science and technology studies scholars—that is, to show the ways in which time matters in environmental science, policy, and the analysis thereof. I draw attention to the time-related aspects of adaptive management by developing the notions of temporal orientation and chronological accountability. Temporal orientation refers to the time-based perspectives and epistemological commitments—that is, past-facing empiricism versus future-oriented modeling—that scientists of different types bring to bear on environmental problems. Chronological accountability refers to the missing link in adaptive forms of environmental governance: firm time lines and commitments to reflexively revisit management decisions. The time-related aspects of natural resource management deserve greater attention among both environmental managers and analysts of environmental policy.

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