Disentangling the Pathways and Effects of Ecosystem Service Co-Production
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T1 - Disentangling the Pathways and Effects of Ecosystem Service Co-Production
AU - Palomo, Ignacio
AU - Felipe-Lucia, María R.
AU - Bennett, Elena M.
AU - Martín-López, Berta
AU - Pascual, Unai
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Research on ecosystem services has become a dominant field within environmental management, framing the way in which human-nature relationships are understood and managed. Although ecosystem services are usually defined as 'the benefits that humans receive from nature', our work shows that most services are actually co-produced by a mixture of natural capital and various forms of social, human, financial and technological capital. Here, we review how ecosystem services are co-produced, and then we assess how this affects the quantity, quality, trade-offs, resilience and the equity of the distribution of ecosystem services. Then we discuss the implications of co-production for sustainability. Finally, we present some challenges for an adequate consideration of co-production within the assessment of ecosystem services.
AB - Research on ecosystem services has become a dominant field within environmental management, framing the way in which human-nature relationships are understood and managed. Although ecosystem services are usually defined as 'the benefits that humans receive from nature', our work shows that most services are actually co-produced by a mixture of natural capital and various forms of social, human, financial and technological capital. Here, we review how ecosystem services are co-produced, and then we assess how this affects the quantity, quality, trade-offs, resilience and the equity of the distribution of ecosystem services. Then we discuss the implications of co-production for sustainability. Finally, we present some challenges for an adequate consideration of co-production within the assessment of ecosystem services.
KW - Capital assets
KW - Ecosystem services co-production
KW - Social-ecological approach
KW - Sustainability
KW - Trade-offs
KW - Sustainability Science
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84954289147&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.09.003
DO - 10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.09.003
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:84954289147
VL - 54
SP - 245
EP - 283
JO - Advances in Ecological Research
JF - Advances in Ecological Research
SN - 0065-2504
ER -