Chapter Six: Disentangling the Pathways and Effects of Ecosystem Service Co-Production

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...

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Published inAdvances in ecological research Vol. 54; pp. 245 - 283
Main Authors Palomo, Ignacio, Felipe-Lucia, María R, Bennett, Elena M, Martín-López, Berta, Pascual, Unai
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Elsevier BV 01.01.2016
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Ecosystem assessment
Ecosystem services
Ecosystems
Environmental management
Human-environment relationship
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:0065-2504
2163-582X
DOI:10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.09.003