Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go?
Autor: | Ida Kubiszewski, Stephen Farber, Leon Braat, Monica Grasso, Robert Costanza, Paul C. Sutton, Rudolph de Groot, Lorenzo Fioramonti |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Geography Planning and Development 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Public administration Key issues 01 natural sciences Ecosystem services Economics Life Science Mainstream 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation Valuation (finance) Global and Planetary Change WIMEK Ecology business.industry Corporate governance Environmental resource management Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Environmental Systems Analysis Milieusysteemanalyse Social transformation Public participation Fundamental change business |
Zdroj: | Ecosystem Services, 28, 1-16 Ecosystem Services 28 (2017) |
ISSN: | 2212-0416 |
Popis: | It has been 20 years since two seminal publications about ecosystem services came out: an edited book by Gretchen Daily and an article in Nature by a group of ecologists and economists on the value of the world’s ecosystem services. Both of these have been very highly cited and kicked off an explosion of research, policy, and applications of the idea, including the establishment of this journal. This article traces the history leading up to these publications and the subsequent debates, research, institutions, policies, on-the-ground actions, and controversies they triggered. It also explores what we have learned during this period about the key issues: from definitions to classification to valuation, from integrated modelling to public participation and communication, and the evolution of institutions and governance innovation. Finally, it provides recommendations for the future. In particular, it points to the weakness of the mainstream economic approaches to valuation, growth, and development. It concludes that the substantial contributions of ecosystem services to the sustainable wellbeing of humans and the rest of nature should be at the core of the fundamental change needed in economic theory and practice if we are to achieve a societal transformation to a sustainable and desirable future. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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