Ecosystem Services Governance: Managing Complexity?

Hans Keune, Thomas Bauler and Heidi Wittmer

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Abstract: Ecosystem governance deals with the management of not only the ecosystem, but also of related social aspects such as decision making, social interaction, and power relations. Taking a closer look at this social side of ecological issues, we learn that these issues are not straightforward or self-evident: What to take into account when describing and analyzing social-ecological systems and how to manage them in practice is open to a diversity of approaches. A common denominator and key question of these approaches seems to be how to deal with the complexity that comes with it. In this chapter we will present a diversity of approaches to ecosystem governance and draw some lessons for complexity management. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Complexity; Ecosystem governance; Ecosystem services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-11
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