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{"title":"Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation","authors":"Jichuan Sheng ,&nbsp;Hongqiang Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101671","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101671","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As Payments for Watershed Services (PWS) schemes are widely implemented around the world, determining downstream payment rates based on expected water quality is critical to designing efficient PWS schemes. Combined with a case study of the Jiuzhou River Horizontal Eco-compensation (JRBHE) in China, this study builds a stochastic differential game model of PWS considering water quality uncertainty. Using this model, this study explores how water quality uncertainty affects the decision-making of watershed protection behaviors of various stakeholders in PWS. In comparing changes in stakeholder watershed protection behaviors in multiple JRBHE scenarios, this study argues that the collaborative eco-compensation model in the PWS can achieve social optimality as it can coordinate multi-stakeholder goals regarding watershed services and water quality. In addition, this study also emphasizes that the collaborative eco-compensation model is riskier than the existing horizontal eco-compensation model due to water quality uncertainty, and penalties aimed at reducing risk are often necessary for the collaborative eco-compensation model. Finally, this study highlights that designing incentive-compatible PWS schemes remains challenging because both water quality uncertainty and stakeholders’ risk preferences influence their ultimate watershed protection behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101671"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142527016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monetary value of ecosystem services in unhealthy seagrass meadows in Indonesia","authors":"Nurul Dhewani Mirah Sjafrie ,&nbsp;Puji Rahmadi ,&nbsp;Triyono Triyono ,&nbsp;Fery Kurniawan ,&nbsp;Indarto Happy Supriyadi ,&nbsp;Firman Zulpikar ,&nbsp;Luky Adrianto ,&nbsp;Susi Rahmawati ,&nbsp;Udhi Eko Hernawan","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101668","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101668","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Seagrass meadows provide important ecosystem services for humans, particularly local communities living in coastal areas. These ecosystems have been facing several anthropogenic pressures, leading to their unhealthy ecological state. Understanding the economic value of ecosystems is essential for effective management and conservation efforts. This study evaluated the monetary value of seagrass ecosystem services in Wakatobi and Bintan, Indonesia. The study sites in these locations were selected owing to the compromised condition of their seagrass ecosystems and the local communities’ widespread use of seagrass ecosystem services. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, focus group discussions, and existing research literature. The monetary valuation of ecosystem services (supporting, regulating, provisioning, and cultural services) was estimated using a non-market benefit transfer and market prices approach. Our analysis revealed that the monetary value of seagrass meadows with an unhealthy ecological state was USD 23,800/ha/y (IDR 336 million) in Wakatobi and USD 13,800/ha/y (IDR 195 million) in Bintan. The average monetary value from both locations was approximately USD 18,800/ha/y (IDR 265 million). Moreover, regulatory services were the most dominant component in the monetary value, contributing up to 97 % of the total value, whereas supporting services contributed 3 %; provisioning and cultural services contributed &lt; 1 %. By quantifying the economic significance of seagrass meadows, our study can facilitate decision-making in seagrass conservation. Furthermore, our findings contribute to the broader field of ecosystem valuation and highlight the importance of safeguarding these ecosystems for both ecological and human well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101668"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142434185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A comparative analysis of ecosystem service values from various rice farming systems: A field experiment in China","authors":"Yanqiong Ye ,&nbsp;Hui Bai ,&nbsp;Jiaen Zhang ,&nbsp;Daolin Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101664","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101664","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Integrated farming systems in paddy fields are being widely adopted for water-food-energy nexus in China. The mechanisms of these integrated farming systems and their economic and ecological benefits have been studied, however, investigation on their ecosystem service values (ESVs) remains limited in the field. To address this gap, this study comparatively analyzed the ESVs of rice monoculture, rice-fish co-culture and rice-fish-water spinach co-culture through a field experiment during the early and late rice growing seasons in 2022. Six positive ESVs including the primary product supply, CO₂ fixation, O₂ release, soil organic matter accumulation, flood control and water storage, soil nutrient maintenance, and one negative ESV of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were investigated and evaluated. The highest total positive ESV was approximately 50,200 US$/ha/yr of the rice-fish-water spinach co-culture, which was 31.4% higher than that of the rice monoculture, and the total primary products value increased by more than two folds than that of the rice monoculture. The total ESVs of the rice-fish co-culture resulted in approximately 43,700 US$/ha/yr, which was 14.4% higher than that of the rice monoculture of 38,200 US$/ha/yr, and the total primary products value increased by 63% as compared with the rice monoculture. Subtracting the negative value of GHG emissions, the net ESVs was approximately 49,400 US$/ha/yr of the rice-fish-water spinach co-culture, followed by 42,900 US$/ha/yr of the rice-fish co-culture, and 37,600 US$/ha/yr of the rice monoculture. Our findings suggested that it should be encouraged to adopt good integrated farming systems for better ecosystem services in paddy fields and to promote the decision makers’ and the public awareness on ecological farming, and field experiments are warranted to explore more practical co-culture systems and to optimize and maximize economic and ecological benefits as well as ecosystem service functions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101664"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “Impacts of commercial and subsistence fishing on marine and cultural ecosystem services important to the wellbeing of an Indigenous community in Hawai’I” [Ecosyst. Serv. 69 (2024) 101661]","authors":"Ron Vave ,&nbsp;Nadine Heck ,&nbsp;Siddharth Narayan ,&nbsp;Sonya Carrizales ,&nbsp;Damien Kenison ,&nbsp;Mariela Garcia-Vega ,&nbsp;Adina Paytan","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101669","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101669","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101669"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142721784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flood prevention benefits provided by Canadian natural ecosystems","authors":"Gabriela T. Duarte ,&nbsp;Richard Schuster ,&nbsp;Marc Edwards ,&nbsp;Camille O. Dallaire ,&nbsp;Ágnes Vári ,&nbsp;Matthew G.E. Mitchell","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101670","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101670","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The escalating impacts of climate change have heightened concerns about the frequency and severity of natural disasters, particularly extreme flooding events. Future projections underscore the necessity for innovative flood prevention strategies, including broad-scale nature-based solutions. Here, we present the first comprehensive assessment of the flood prevention benefits provided by Canadian natural ecosystems and identify key areas crucial for human well-being. Using spatially explicit modeling, we (1) evaluated the potential runoff retention by natural ecosystems and (2) identified downstream urban and agricultural areas critically dependent on these natural benefits, particularly those in floodplains and close proximity to upstream natural ecosystems. The natural ecosystems within the top 5 % of sub-basins, representing regions with a high priority for conservation practices aimed at flood prevention, play a crucial role in safeguarding approximately 54 % (∼6,000 km²) of the total built-up area and 74 % (∼16,900 km2) of the total cropland situated within floodplains. Additionally, they are positioned upstream of floodplain-based urban zones belonging to 358 population centers, directly benefiting 3.7 million people (∼10 % of the Canadian population) and indirectly benefiting almost 20.1 million people (∼56 % of the Canadian population). Moreover, among Canada’s 5.2 million km² of flood-preventing natural ecosystems, we identified a small fraction (10 %) whose loss or degradation would result in a significant (&gt;50 %) increase in runoff. Several of these crucial ecosystems are situated in less populated northern regions, where local governments might want to incentivize conservation initiatives to support flood prevention. Our research underscores the imperative to integrate nature-based solutions into national strategies that consider the results of spatial planning analyses. Establishing other effective area-based conservation measures in the priority regions highlighted in this study can contribute towards reaching current ambitious environmental goals and provide critical flood prevention benefits. Additionally, our methods are transferable to other regions worldwide, leveraging globally available datasets and ensuring computational feasibility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101670"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impacts of landscape configurations on ecosystem services and their trade-offs across different landscape compositions","authors":"Jiasi Huang,&nbsp;Zheyi Xia,&nbsp;Liming Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101666","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101666","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Landscape sustainability depends on the design of landscape patterns that can be guided by ecosystem services (ESs). Clarifying the impacts of landscape configurations on ESs and their trade-offs will facilitate landscape planning and management to achieve the best design without changing most landscape compositions. However, limited work has focused on these impacts, and whether these impacts are the same on different compositions remains unexplored. Thus, this study analyzes the impacts of landscape configurations on ESs and their trade-offs for different compositions. In this analysis, Gaussian mixture model was used to cluster the landscape by compositions, five important ESs (crop production, water yield, carbon storage, soil retention, and outdoor recreation) were quantified, and the constraint line was used to analyze the impact, taking the Xiangjiang River Basin as an example. Results showed that three clusters of landscape compositions, which are similar to the urban–rural–natural gradient, were identified. Furthermore, the impacts of landscape configurations on ESs and their trade-offs had largely the same direction in different compositions. However, change in landscape composition makes the high correlations among them weaker or shift to constraint impacts. Based on the results of the study, we can not only contribute to local landscape development but also argue three general approaches for landscape planning and management. First, considering the trade-offs and making a choice adapted to local conditions. Second, adjusting landscape configurations with virtually no changes of compositions. Third, external intervention based on rational landscape configurations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101666"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142358899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecosystem services and collective action: New commons, new governance challenges","authors":"Cécile Barnaud ,&nbsp;Roldan Muradian","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101662","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101662","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This editorial article of the special issue “Ecosystem Services and Collective Action: New Commons, New Governance Challenges” examines the synergies and tensions between the ecosystem services (ES) framework and the theories on collective action for environmental governance. The literature and the contributions of this special issue illuminate the multifaceted nature of these interactions. By revealing new socio-ecological interdependencies and emerging commons, the ES concept raise opportunities of collective action and polycentric institutional arrangements, and can operate as a boundary object in collaborative processes. However, we also stress the importance of considering, in both research and policy design, the inherent challenges of collective ES governance regimes and the complexities of the underlying social processes, including: the rise of shared perceptions and common beliefs; the development of new social networks and trust relations; the recognition of multiple values and worldviews, notably non-utilitarian values; the management of conflicts and power asymmetries; and the context-dependency of institutional arrangements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101662"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142721792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors","authors":"María R. Felipe-Lucia ,&nbsp;Ángel de Frutos ,&nbsp;Emilie Crouzat ,&nbsp;Volker Grescho ,&nbsp;Jonna M. Heuschele ,&nbsp;Melissa Marselle ,&nbsp;Marco Heurich ,&nbsp;Franziska Pöpperl ,&nbsp;Florian Porst ,&nbsp;Ana Paula Portela ,&nbsp;Christian Rossi ,&nbsp;Claudia Carvalho-Santos ,&nbsp;Ana Stritih ,&nbsp;Ana Sofia Vaz ,&nbsp;Aletta Bonn","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101663","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101663","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Protected Areas contribute to the conservation of nature with associated cultural ecosystem services (CES) and values, such as recreational and educational opportunities, wildlife observation, scenic beauty, inspiration and sense of belonging. Informed management of Protected Areas needs to consider the distinct use and preferences for CES of different types of visitors to increase opportunities for nature experience while avoiding conflicts with biodiversity conservation. Therefore, it is important to understand the linkages between visitor characteristics and their demand for specific sets of CES, particularly in fragile mountain ecosystems. Here we do so by combining information from individual on-site surveys and participatory mapping of visitors in four European mountain Protected Areas. We analysed visitors’ frequency of use of eight CES and their socio-demographic information, identifying three clusters of visitors. We also assessed the spatial distribution of CES locations used by each visitor cluster. Our results highlight strong differences between clusters both in the most frequently experienced CES and in the spatial location where those CES were experienced. We suggest that a better understanding of visitors regarding the way they experience nature is relevant for the environmental management of mountain Protected Areas and their surroundings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101663"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Misconceptions about the valuation of ecosystem services","authors":"Robert Costanza","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101667","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101667","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concept of ecosystem services – the benefits humans derive from functioning ecosystems – has been around for at least 4 decades. Attempts to value those services in monetary and other units have been around for just as long. However, several misconceptions have sprung up about ecosystem services, and especially the valuation of those services in monetary units, that are counterproductive to further dialogue, research, and solutions. This paper attempts to address some of those misconceptions, including showing that: (1) ecosystem services is not an anthropo<em>centric</em> concept; (2) economics is not only the market; (3) valuation is not commodification or privatization; (4) expressing relative values in monetary units is not necessarily ‘market-based’; (5) in a world of trade-offs, whether to perform a valuation is not a choice since it happens implicitly; (6) ‘intrinsic values’ are about rights, not relative valuation; and (7) relative valuation and rights-based approaches are complimentary not mutually exclusive. I address each of these misconceptions in turn and end with a plea for constructive dialogue on these important issues, not continuing unproductive debate founded on fundamental misconceptions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101667"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of Earth observation in ecosystem accounting: A review of advances, challenges and future directions","authors":"Ioannis P. Kokkoris ,&nbsp;Bruno Smets ,&nbsp;Lars Hein ,&nbsp;Giorgos Mallinis ,&nbsp;Marcel Buchhorn ,&nbsp;Stefano Balbi ,&nbsp;Ján Černecký ,&nbsp;Marc Paganini ,&nbsp;Panayotis Dimopoulos","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101659","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101659","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The European Space Agency (ESA) project “Pioneering Earth Observation Applications for the Environment – Ecosystem Accounting” (PEOPLE-EA) aimed to study and demonstrate the relevance of Earth Observation (EO) for ecosystem accounting in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Ecosystem accounts are inherently spatial accounts, with the implication that they strongly depend on the availability of spatially explicit datasets. In the project’s framework, an in-depth literature review of 113 scientific papers has shown EO data streams can be integrated to accelerate ecosystem account reporting. However, these workflows need to be further extended to support extent accounting that involves a more disaggregated ecosystem classification compared to land cover types. EO provides wall-to-wall monitoring and hence can contribute to provide reliable and consistent metrics on ecosystem condition, next to ecosystem extent. EO contribution is mainly to delineate and characterize ecosystem extent, structure, function and composition indices, and probably their distance from a reference condition, if not set too far back in time. The use of EO data for ecosystem services is more challenging, despite the well-established conceptual framework. EO data can support and accelerate ecosystem accounting under the standardised SEEA EA framework providing the most cost-effective way to collect large amounts of data in a standardised form with consistency in space and time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101659"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041624000664/pdfft?md5=0764b844e917eac69d5231a70f3b515b&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041624000664-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142256483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}