Identifying governance challenges in ecosystem services management – Conceptual considerations and comparison of global forest cases

Thomas Falk, Joachim H. Spangenberg, Marianna Siegmund-Schultze, Susanne Kobbe, Til Feike, Daniel Kuebler, Josef Settele and Tobias Vorlaufer

Ecosystem Services, 2018, vol. 32, issue PB, 193-203

Abstract: Ecosystems around the world generate a wide range of services. Often, there are trade-offs in ecosystem service provision. Managing such trade-offs requires governance of interdependent action situations. We distinguished between (1) enhancing action situations where beneficiaries create, maintain, or improve an ESS and (2) appropriation action situations where actors subtract from a flow of ESS. We classified ESSs in order to identify focal action situations and link them to ESS governance types which are likely to strengthen sustainable ecosystem management. The classification is applied to six forest cases in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Keywords: Social-ecological systems; Action situations; Institutional fit; Forest ecosystems; Case comparison; Online diagnostic tool (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.07.012

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