scholarly journals The Biodiversity of Urban and Peri-Urban Forests and the Diverse Ecosystem Services They Provide as Socio-Ecological Systems

Forests ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Livesley ◽  
Francisco Escobedo ◽  
Justin Morgenroth
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Ecological Systems

scholarly journals Beijing Resident’s Preferences of Ecosystem Services of Urban Forests

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Han Zhi-Ying ◽  
Youn Yeo-Chang
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forestry ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Quality Regulation ◽  
Water Provision ◽  
Air Quality Regulation

This paper aims to investigate the Beijing resident’s preferences over various options of urban forest management strategies. The literature investigation and expert Delphi method were conducted to classify the ecosystem services of urban forests into six categories: (1) fresh water provision, (2) noise reduction, (3) moderation of extreme events, (4) air quality regulation, (5) species diversity and wildlife habitat, and (6) recreation and spiritual experience. To elicit the relative preferences to ecosystem service (hereafter referred to as ES) of Beijing residents, we employed the choice experiment method. The data were collected by interviews with questionnaires conducted in October 2017, and a total of 483 valid questionnaires were analyzed. The subjects of this experiment were residents older than 19 years old who have lived in Beijing for more than 1 year and have visited any one of the urban forests located in Beijing more than once during 2016. The results were as follows: Firstly, the air quality regulation ES was considered as the most important service for Beijing residents in terms of their choices of urban forest. In addition, Beijing residents regarded the fresh water provision ES as the second most important ES. Beijing residents were willing to pay up to 1.84% of the average monthly income of Chinese households annually to expand urban forest ecosystems in order to improve air quality. Secondly, apartment owners were willing to pay more municipality tax for forest ESs than residents who did not own an apartment. Thirdly, residents were more willing to pay for urban forest ESs as their income increases. The results indicated that Beijing residents were willing to pay more tax in support of urban forestry for air quality improvement. This research suggests that urban environmental policy makers in Beijing should pay more attention to the regulation function of forests (especially improving air quality) when designing and managing urban forests.

scholarly journals Delayed behavioural shifts undermine the sustainability of social–ecological systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1868) ◽  
pp. 20171192 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.-S. Lafuite ◽  
C. de Mazancourt ◽  
M. Loreau
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Ecological Feedbacks ◽  
Mixed Equilibria

Natural habitat destruction and fragmentation generate a time-delayed loss of species and associated ecosystem services. As social–ecological systems (SESs) depend on a range of ecosystem services, lagged ecological dynamics may affect their long-term sustainability. Here, we investigate the role of consumption changes for sustainability, under a time-delayed ecological feedback on agricultural production. We use a stylized model that couples the dynamics of biodiversity, technology, human demography and compliance with a social norm prescribing sustainable consumption. Compliance with the sustainable norm reduces both the consumption footprint and the vulnerability of SESs to transient overshoot-and-collapse population crises. We show that the timing and interaction between social, demographic and ecological feedbacks govern the transient and long-term dynamics of the system. A sufficient level of social pressure (e.g. disapproval) applied on the unsustainable consumers leads to the stable coexistence of unsustainable and sustainable or mixed equilibria, where both defectors and conformers coexist. Under bistability conditions, increasing extinction debts reduces the resilience of the system, thus favouring abrupt regime shifts towards unsustainable pathways. Given recent evidence of large extinction debts, such results call for farsightedness and a better understanding of time delays when studying the sustainability of coupled SESs.

scholarly journals Business attitudes towards funding ecosystem services provided by urban forests

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 159-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen J. Davies ◽  
Kieron J. Doick ◽  
Malcolm D. Hudson ◽  
Marije Schaafsma ◽  
Kate Schreckenberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Urban Forests

scholarly journals The Evolution Response of Ecosystem Cultural Services under Different Scenarios Based on System Dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 418
Author(s):  
Qiqi Zhao ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Yuda Cuan ◽  
Zixiang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
System Dynamics Model ◽  
Dynamics Model ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Ecosystem Protection ◽  
The Social ◽  
Administrative Division

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are a significant part of the ecosystem and are considered to be a core component of human welfare and ecosystem protection. CES have been historically difficult to quantitatively evaluate because of their subjectivity and intangibility. Additionally, their evolution over time has rarely been explored. Here, we quantitatively evaluated various CES and generated corresponding value index (VI) maps. We then further explored the evolution of CES characteristics over space and time. We selected Xi’an as the study area and applied the Social Values of Ecosystem Services (SolVES) model to evaluate CES and generate three specific VI maps. A system dynamics model based on socioeconomic and survey data of CES for each administrative division was established. Finally, we simulated four developmental scenarios in order to predict potential developmental changes of CES in 2030 under these different scenarios. This study provides a method for evaluating CES and explores the application of system dynamics to different fields. Additionally, our findings may provide guidance for the formulation of regional policies and support missions to improve civilizations within ecological systems, coordinate future economic growth with ecosystem services, and achieve sustainable development.

scholarly journals How Does Agroecology Contribute to the Transitions towards Social-Ecological Sustainability?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Oteros-Rozas ◽  
Federica Ravera ◽  
Marina García-Llorente
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Ecological Functions ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
Complex Relationships

This Special Issue of Sustainability aims at compiling original theoretical, methodological, and empirical research exploring how agroecology approaches can promote the transition towards sustainability, particularly of agri-food social-ecological systems, taking into account the complex relationships established between ecological functions and ecosystem services, human wellbeing, innovative socio-technical innovations, and governance models as well as public policies. In this editorial, we carry out an overview of the 17 contributions that shape this number, around five main themes: Agroecological practices that enhance ecosystem services, the potential of agroecology to promote social learning and innovation, gender and feminist perspectives in agroecology, the political articulation of agroecology, and public policies and the institutionalization of agroecology. Finally, we reflect about suggested guidelines for agroecology research that truly aims at supporting the transition towards strong social-ecological sustainability, we then deepen on the main gaps revealed by the research works presented. Finally, we conclude with the insights provided by agroecology within the transition towards social-ecological sustainability.

Revisiting forestry’s crystal ball

2009 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 710-714
Author(s):  
Winifred B Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Sustainable Forestry ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Crystal Ball

This paper revisits 3 broad predictions about forestry’s future presented by the author in 1993: the growing importance of products that come from forests, forests increasingly valued for more than the sum of their products and uses, and better appreciation of forests as complex ecological systems controlled by forces larger than humans. These predictions have played out in more dramatic ways than initially envisioned, driven in part by 3 emergent forces: the energy crisis, the ascension of new economic superpowers, and climate change. Examples of these trends and relationships are examined from Canadian and United States contexts. Key words: ecosystem services, forests and climate change, forests and global warming, forest biofuels, forest management trends, sustainable forestry

scholarly journals Challenges for tree officers to enhance the provision of regulating ecosystem services from urban forests

2017 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 97-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen J. Davies ◽  
Kieron J. Doick ◽  
Malcolm D. Hudson ◽  
Kate Schreckenberg
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Urban Forests

Socio-ecological dynamics and inequality in Bogotá, Colombia's public urban forests and their ecosystem services

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1040-1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Escobedo ◽  
Nicola Clerici ◽  
Christina L. Staudhammer ◽  
Germán Tovar Corzo
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Ecological Dynamics
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