Pub Date : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101706
Fernanda Nunes de Araujo Fonseca , Mercedes Maria da Cunha Bustamante
Ecosystem services (ES) modeling has become an essential tool for assessing the spatial distribution of nature’s benefits to people and supporting decision-making in environmental conservation. By integrating biophysical, ecological, and socio-economic data, ES models provide valuable insights into how landscapes sustain key services such as water regulation, carbon storage, and biodiversity maintenance. This study investigates the role of Indigenous Lands (ILs) in providing ES in the Brazilian Cerrado-Amazon transition, a region under intense pressure from the conversion of native vegetation to agriculture and livestock production. Using InVEST models at the watershed scale, we quantified ES related to water supply, erosion control, habitat quality, and terrestrial carbon storage, focusing on the contribution of ILs to these services. Spatial autocorrelation analyses, including the Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA) index, were applied to identify significant patterns of contribution from sub-watersheds overlapping ILs. The results indicate that, although ILs cover only 4% of the Cerrado biome, they are crucial for the provision of ES, particularly those related to biodiversity and climate regulation. This research highlights the importance of ILs as protected areas that integrate Indigenous traditional knowledge with biodiversity conservation and ES provision, both of which are essential for regional economies. Public policies must recognize the reciprocal contributions between Indigenous peoples and nature, ensuring land rights and effectively protecting these territories.
{"title":"The importance of indigenous territories for the provision of ecosystem services: A case study in the Brazilian Cerrado-Amazon Transition","authors":"Fernanda Nunes de Araujo Fonseca , Mercedes Maria da Cunha Bustamante","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101706","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101706","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecosystem services (ES) modeling has become an essential tool for assessing the spatial distribution of nature’s benefits to people and supporting decision-making in environmental conservation. By integrating biophysical, ecological, and socio-economic data, ES models provide valuable insights into how landscapes sustain key services such as water regulation, carbon storage, and biodiversity maintenance. This study investigates the role of Indigenous Lands (ILs) in providing ES in the Brazilian Cerrado-Amazon transition, a region under intense pressure from the conversion of native vegetation to agriculture and livestock production. Using InVEST models at the watershed scale, we quantified ES related to water supply, erosion control, habitat quality, and terrestrial carbon storage, focusing on the contribution of ILs to these services. Spatial autocorrelation analyses, including the Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA) index, were applied to identify significant patterns of contribution from sub-watersheds overlapping ILs. The results indicate that, although ILs cover only 4% of the Cerrado biome, they are crucial for the provision of ES, particularly those related to biodiversity and climate regulation. This research highlights the importance of ILs as protected areas that integrate Indigenous traditional knowledge with biodiversity conservation and ES provision, both of which are essential for regional economies. Public policies must recognize the reciprocal contributions between Indigenous peoples and nature, ensuring land rights and effectively protecting these territories.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101706"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143427689","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101701
Andrea Nóblega-Carriquiry , Hug March , David Sauri , Jochen Hack
Urban projects based on Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) are increasingly developed through participatory and bottom-up processes aiming for a more just and equal supply of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES). However, the concept of CES is shaped by underlying assumptions about valuation, governance structures, and power dynamics, which can lead to unequal access to and control over ES benefits. Furthermore, CES are often evaluated post BGI’s construction, focusing on distributive justice with limited scope for adjustments. This article investigates how pre-construction bottom-up processes shape the distribution and recognition of CES among communities and individuals. Using an Environmental Justice lens, it examines CES through three dimensions of justice simultaneously, namely distributional, recognition and procedural. This is tested for the case study of Ecovillage Hannover, an ecological housing project in Germany, developed through a bottom-up approach. After using qualitative and quantitative methods, the findings reveal that i.) the co-productive nature of CES influences their unequal distribution ii.) embracing trade-offs through discussions and confrontations is essential to address conflicting CES values; iii.) integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches supports a more holistic and just application of the CES framework. The study offers insights for public policies on the role of BGI in community-led housing projects, demonstrating how CES perceptions and justice considerations can guide more inclusive and sustainable outcomes, especially during early development stages.
{"title":"Neighbour perspectives on cultural ecosystem services of blue-green infrastructures: The ecovillage Hannover, Germany","authors":"Andrea Nóblega-Carriquiry , Hug March , David Sauri , Jochen Hack","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101701","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101701","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban projects based on Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) are increasingly developed through participatory and bottom-up processes aiming for a more just and equal supply of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES). However, the concept of CES is shaped by underlying assumptions about valuation, governance structures, and power dynamics, which can lead to unequal access to and control over ES benefits. Furthermore, CES are often evaluated post BGI’s construction, focusing on distributive justice with limited scope for adjustments. This article investigates how pre-construction bottom-up processes shape the distribution and recognition of CES among communities and individuals. Using an Environmental Justice lens, it examines CES through three dimensions of justice simultaneously, namely distributional, recognition and procedural. This is tested for the case study of Ecovillage Hannover, an ecological housing project in Germany, developed through a bottom-up approach. After using qualitative and quantitative methods, the findings reveal that i.) the co-productive nature of CES influences their unequal distribution ii.) embracing trade-offs through discussions and confrontations is essential to address conflicting CES values; iii.) integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches supports a more holistic and just application of the CES framework. The study offers insights for public policies on the role of BGI in community-led housing projects, demonstrating how CES perceptions and justice considerations can guide more inclusive and sustainable outcomes, especially during early development stages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101701"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349594","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}
Invasive alien species (IAS) represent a global problem for biodiversity conservation, and a growing concern involving IAS is related to their impacts on ecosystem services. However, their effects on ecosystem services in insular ecosystems are poorly known, which are particularly relevant and concerning due to the fragility and limited resources in these areas for several organisms, including humans. Therefore, the present study aimed to inventory ecosystem services and assess the impact of IAS on these services and the terrestrial ecosystems of the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil, which is a tropical protected area. The approach was applied to four IAS: black rat (Rattus rattus), domestic cat (Felis catus), tegu lizard (Salvator merianae), and lead tree (Leucaena leucocephala). A worksheet for ecosystem services was created, using the subdivisions defined in the zoning of the protected areas of Fernando de Noronha as management units, namely Urban Area, Beach Area, Green Area, Primitive Area, and Secondary Island. Additionally, two quantitative approaches were combined: the INvasive Species Effects Assessment Tool (INSEAT) to assess the positive and negative effects of IAS on ecosystem services, based on a questionnaire applied to experts; and the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) software to estimate the risk of impacts from IAS. In total, 21 ecosystem services, 41 benefits, and 10 groups of benefitting social actors were identified in Fernando de Noronha. In general, all IAS presented risks to the ecosystem services of Fernando de Noronha, especially F. catus and R. rattus. According to the impact index, the IAS caused negative effects to most ecosystem services considered, but the effects were more pronounced on the provisioning and cultural ecosystem service groups. On the other hand, a positive effect was found for L. leucocephala on regulating and maintenance services, although with a low impact index. With the exception of the Urban Area, all management units showed a high risk of being impacted by IAS, especially the Primitive Area. The main social actors impacted by the IAS were the local community, the floating population, and the Administration. The present study is the first to combine these quantitative techniques (INSEAT and InVEST) and represents a set of guidelines for ecosystem-based management to mitigate the impact of IAS, aiming at the maintenance and improvement of ecosystem services within protected areas in insular environments.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-02DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101696
Jessica E.M. van der Wal , Celestino Dauda , David J. Lloyd-Jones , Horácio Murico , Colleen M. Begg , Keith S. Begg , Agostinho A. Jorge , Claire N. Spottiswoode
People in many rural societies rely on wild birds for their livelihoods, often without benefiting the birds. A notable exception is the mutually beneficial relationship between humans and the greater honeyguide (Indicator indicator), a wax-eating bird that guides people to bees’ nests. Humans gain honey for food and income, while the birds feed on beeswax. Here, we estimated the economic value of honeyguides to honey-hunters in Moçambique’s Reserva Especial do Niassa (REN), where these birds regularly help locate wild honey. From interviews and community-collected data we estimated that, on average, honey-hunters sold 37 L[CI: 30, 44] of honey annually, earning $63[CI: 50, 76], and that three-quarters of the honey volume harvested was found with honeyguides. From these estimates we determined that an average Niassa honey-hunter earned $48 in 2018 (or $80 when applying 2023 prices) from selling 28 L of honey collected with honeyguides. With REN’s high poverty levels and low employment rates, these earnings are likely vital to household subsistence. Surveys by community wildlife guardians estimated ∼ 500 honey-hunters selling honey in REN, generating a total of $23,900 in 2018, or $40,700 when applying 2023 prices, from honey collected with honeyguides. Honey-hunting with honeyguides is a unique and dwindling cultural tradition that continues to thrive in REN, offering significant economic, livelihood and cultural benefits to rural communities living in miombo woodlands. Safeguarding these habitats and ensuring human access to them is imperative not only for their material benefits, but also to preserve this shared human heritage of partnership with wildlife. Please see AfricanHoneyguides.com/abstract-translations for a Portuguese translation of the abstract.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101693
Shokhrukh-Mirzo Jalilov , Yanto Rochmayanto , Dian Charity Hidayat , Jany Tri Raharjo , Daniel Mendham , James Douglas Langston
Indonesian peatlands play a critical role in global carbon storage and biodiversity conservation, but they face significant ongoing threat of degradation and loss due to human-induced pressures, including the development of industrial plantations, agricultural expansion, extractive forestry practices, and recurrent fires. The imperative to restore these peatlands is significant, but the restoration effort has, so far, been underwhelming. This paper systematically reviews studies that have assessed the economic costs and benefits of peatland restoration in Indonesia. It summarizes the substantial economic stakes involved in peatland restoration efforts, ranging from millions to billions of dollars. The collective findings emphasize the significant costs required for restoration, alongside the potential economic benefits derived from environmental conservation, climate change mitigation, and sustainable land management. These economic valuations are complemented by a holistic consideration of ecological, social, and cultural factors, providing valuable insights for policymakers and decision-makers. However, while these studies have offered valuable insights into various aspects such as local preferences, willingness to pay, financial costs, and potential economic benefits, none have comprehensively explored the potential trade-offs or forgone opportunities resulting from the proposed restoration programs. This is a critical gap in current research and practice. We illustrate the need for more systemic learning about how peatlands are valued to advance a transition towards healthier peatlands in Indonesia.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101687
Luara Tourinho , Stella Manes , Aliny P.F. Pires , João Carlos Nabout , José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho , Levi Carina Terribile , Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira , Geiziane Tessarolo , Maria Lúcia Lorini , Marcio Argollo de Menezes , Danilo Boscolo , Mariana M. Vale
Climate change poses a significant threat to biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES). In this study, we evaluated the climate change risk to 11 ES provided by Brazilian terrestrial mammals by mapping their potential distribution using ecological niche modeling. We assessed risk by estimating species richness (for each ES) and ES richness (for ES overlapped) under current and future conditions. Although most of the species are projected to experience distribution contractions, overall, the individual ES and their overlap are expected to be less at risk from climate change (i.e., gain in redundancy of providers or area of supply). The Amazon emerges as a hotspot for ES supply by mammals, showing the greatest redundancy and, in some cases, expansion of ES supply. Because ES are benefits to people, and the Amazon is the least populated region in Brazil, this surplus might not translate into actual service. Conversely, the densely populated Atlantic Forest, and the agriculturally productive southern of Cerrado, and Pantanal are expected to lose ES in the future. We emphasize the importance of identifying and mapping ES providers to inform decision-making and policy formulation and guide strategies to deal with climate change and other stressors such as land-use changes. Overall, there is an urgent need for conservation and restoration efforts, particularly in densely populated regions at risk of losing provider species and their ES, such as in the Atlantic Forest. Also, further research is crucial for the Caatinga and Pampa regions, where knowledge gaps were identified.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101699
Marta Derek , Sylwia Kulczyk , Tomasz Grzyb , Edyta Woźniak
This paper aims to understand how cultural ecosystem services (CES) are shaped in public urban green spaces. Landscape, understood as a hierarchical complex of abiotic, biotic, and human-made elements, is considered as the basis of CES supply. Since CES are intrinsically linked to the on-site experience, we invited 27 experts to ‘walk and talk’ about landscape in five distinctive Public Urban Green Spaces (PUGS) in Warsaw. This qualitative approach allowed us to observe the process of co-production of CES by addressing three specific research aims: (1) to identify the relationships between biotic, abiotic, and human-made elements in PUGS; (2) to establish links between different types of CES provided by PUGS; and (3) to explore the links between CES and specific landscape elements within PUGS.
The results indicate that CES are co-produced by all landscape elements. Interviewees most frequently mentioned trees, birds, mammals, and water. In terms of CES, experts most often referred to active recreation, aesthetic experience, and passive recreation as benefits provided by urban greenery. Other CES included opportunities for social interactions, education, a sense of place, and tranquillity. The analysis also revealed several notable co-occurrences between ecosystem services and landscape elements as discussed by the interviewees. Active recreation was particularly distinctive here – unlike other CES, it was primarily associated with abiotic elements of the landscape, with landform being the most frequently mentioned. For other CES biotic elements were more important than abiotic.
This study’s findings suggest that people perceive the landscape holistically, whether they engage in recreational activities, admire the beauty of nature, or seek tranquillity. It has an important implications for future research of CES, by indicating that CES should be studied comprehensively, incorporating different elements of landscape which co-create them.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101695
Onil Banerjee , Martin Cicowiez , Erica Cristine Honeck , Mani S. Muthukumara , Katherine Anne Stapleton
Cambodia has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, which exacerbates local and global impacts of climate change while compromising the supply of critical ecosystem services that provide benefits to society. Cambodia’s Long-Term Strategy for Carbon Neutrality and its Nationally Determined Contributions aim to mitigate climate change and enhance ecosystem service supply contributing to reducing erosion and flood hazards that jeopardize human lives and infrastructure. In this paper, we investigate the economic, social and ecosystem service impacts of these two policy packages by applying the Integrated Economic-Environmental Model (IEEM) for Cambodia linked with spatial Land Use Land Cover change and Ecosystem Services modeling. Focusing on Forest and Other Land Use policies within the Long-Term Strategy and Nationally Determined Contributions, our results show that these policies would reduce cumulative carbon dioxide emissions by 1.6 billion tons by 2050. Cumulative Gross Domestic Product and wealth impacts would be US$3.576 billion and US$118 billion, respectively. Implementation of the policies would enhance regulating and provisioning ecosystem service flows overall by US$6.6 billion. The return on investment would be US$31 billion, though not valuing changes in natural capital and environmental quality would realize only about 12% of this return (US$3.7 billion). Our study demonstrates that working towards carbon neutrality is not only compatible with socioeconomic development but would effectively catalyze it. Further, we demonstrate that the most efficient and cost-effective strategy to meet Cambodia’s emissions targets would be to eliminate deforestation more rapidly than outlined in the Long-Term Strategy, complemented by proactive measures for afforestation and forest restoration. The evidence presented in this study may be used to build the business case for government and private sector investment in achieving Cambodia’s carbon neutrality goal by engaging Forest and Other Land Use sectors.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101679
Gislaine Costa de Mendonça , Maria Teresa Vilela Nogueira Abdo , Luis Miguel da Costa , Renata Cristina Araújo Costa , Fernando António Leal Pacheco , Milton Cezar Ribeiro , Maria José Brito Zakia , Laura De Simone Borma , Teresa Cristina Tarlé Pissarra
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) globally addresses land use-tenure-restoration tradeoffs. The Atlantic Forest Connection Projetc, a Brazilian collaborative initiative, aimed to preserve and restore the Brazilian Atlantic Forest fostering and rewarding sustainable land use that could generate biodiversity, climate, and socioeconomic benefits through Nature-based Solutions (NbS). However, comprehensive assessments of these strategic implementations are still lacking. To validate them and enhance overall effectiveness, we have developed the PES-Catchment protocol, a watershed-based framework that targets strategic areas, and propose metrics for evaluating water and soil conservation services. This methodology seeks to optimize the impact of existing environmental and socioeconomic public policies and governance, by directing the efficient implementation of NbS in the restoration of agroecosystems. Priority areas were identified using a multicriteria decision analysis in GIS software, by merging key factors (watershed management, landscape vulnerability, water availability, land degradation) for improving landscape restoration and ecosystem services through agroforestry implementation. Three reference scenarios were created to identify where the benefits can be maximized: SI) multiple ecosystem services conservation (water and soil); SII) hydrological services provision; and SIII) land degradation neutrality. The extent of high levels of degradation across scenarios ranges from 22 to 26%, with scenario SI being the most responsive to high-priority areas. In contrast, low priority areas were more frequently observed under SII scenario, followed by SIII and SI, respectively. The projections prioritized 25% of the area along the most critical catchments and subbasins, exposing a significant level of land degradation and risks to hydrological services. Furthermore, around 50% of the private rural properties registered in the programs are distributed in medium priority areas, and 21% on average are in high-priority areas, which represents an alert to redirect targets and intensify the efforts in resource allocation (implementing/monitoring). The PES – Catchment outcomes offer insights and structural support to adjust governance strategies, optimizing payments for ecosystem services aimed at landscape restoration and watershed conservation.
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The ecosystem services (ES) concept is well-established in the scientific community but remains underutilized and poorly understood within government organizations. In this article, we analyze the barriers to integrating ES into relevant governmental operations in Quebec, Canada. According to the perspective expressed by eight governmental organizations’ representatives, we analyze factors constraining the integration of the ES concept at the government level while suggesting ways forward. We found that despite the relevance of this concept in many areas ranging from planning to environment management, its operationalization faces challenges due to 1) confusion of terminology; 2) difficulties in evaluating and prioritizing ES; and 3) the complexity of operationalization in a context of interdependent practices. Moreover, the adoption of guidelines to implement the ES concept in governmental policies and programs is insufficient. Along with institutional and operational limitations, government organizations face structural constraints preventing the concept’s full use, namely the fundamental of State and market. Our study shows that although the ES concept is apprehended in a utilitarian way for short-term goals within government organizations, it nonetheless holds the potential to raise awareness and promote enlightened decision-making on environmental benefits.
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