TY - JOUR

T1 - Interregional flows of ecosystem services

T2 - Concepts, typology and four cases

AU - Schröter, Matthias

AU - Koellner, Thomas

AU - Alkemade, Rob

AU - Arnhold, Sebastian

AU - Bagstad, Kenneth J.

AU - Erb, Karl Heinz

AU - Frank, Karin

AU - Kastner, Thomas

AU - Kissinger, Meidad

AU - Liu, Jianguo

AU - López-Hoffman, Laura

AU - Maes, Joachim

AU - Marques, Alexandra

AU - Martín-López, Berta

AU - Meyer, Carsten

AU - Schulp, Catharina J.E.

AU - Thober, Jule

AU - Wolff, Sarah

AU - Bonn, Aletta

N1 - Funding Information: This paper is a joint effort of the working group “sTeleBES – Telecoupled use of biodiversity and ecosystem services: synthesis of concepts, methods and evidence” and an outcome of a workshop kindly supported by sDiv, the Synthesis Centre (sDiv) of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG FZT 118). CM acknowledges funding from the Volkswagen Foundation through a Freigeist Fellowship. KHE acknowledges funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) P29130. JT acknowledges funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the Junior Research Group MigSoKo (01UU1606). JL acknowledges funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and Michigan AgBioResearch. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Publisher Copyright: © 2018 The Authors

PY - 2018/6/1

Y1 - 2018/6/1

N2 - Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity of flows of ecosystem services across geographic boundaries. Failing to understand and to incorporate these flows into national and international ecosystem assessments leads to incomplete and potentially skewed conclusions, impairing society's ability to identify sustainable management and policy choices. In this paper, we synthesise existing knowledge and develop a conceptual framework for analysing interregional ecosystem service flows. We synthesise the types of such flows, the characteristics of sending and receiving socio-ecological systems, and the impacts of ecosystem service flows on interregional sustainability. Using four cases (trade of certified coffee, migration of northern pintails, flood protection in the Danube watershed, and information on giant pandas), we test the conceptual framework and show how an enhanced understanding of interregional telecouplings in socio-ecological systems can inform ecosystem service-based decision making and governance with respect to sustainability goals.

AB - Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity of flows of ecosystem services across geographic boundaries. Failing to understand and to incorporate these flows into national and international ecosystem assessments leads to incomplete and potentially skewed conclusions, impairing society's ability to identify sustainable management and policy choices. In this paper, we synthesise existing knowledge and develop a conceptual framework for analysing interregional ecosystem service flows. We synthesise the types of such flows, the characteristics of sending and receiving socio-ecological systems, and the impacts of ecosystem service flows on interregional sustainability. Using four cases (trade of certified coffee, migration of northern pintails, flood protection in the Danube watershed, and information on giant pandas), we test the conceptual framework and show how an enhanced understanding of interregional telecouplings in socio-ecological systems can inform ecosystem service-based decision making and governance with respect to sustainability goals.

KW - Drivers

KW - Effects

KW - Spatial flows

KW - Sustainability

KW - Teleconnection

KW - Telecoupling

KW - Sustainability Science

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042144358&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.02.003

DO - 10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.02.003

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 31

SP - 231

EP - 241

JO - Ecosystem Services

JF - Ecosystem Services

SN - 2212-0416

IS - Part B

ER -