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Scenarios for Ecosystem Services: An Overview
- Source :
- Ecology and Society, Vol 11, Iss 1, p 29 (2006)
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Resilience Alliance, 2006.
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Abstract
- "The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) scenarios address changes in ecosystem services and their implications for human well-being. Ecological changes pose special challenges for long-term thinking, because of the possibility of regime shifts that occur rapidly yet alter the availability of ecosystem services for generations. Moreover, ecological feedbacks can intensify human modification of ecosystems, creating a spiral of poverty and ecosystem degradation. Such complex dynamics were evaluated by a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analyses in the MA scenarios. Collectively, the scenarios explore problems such as the connections of poverty reduction and ecosystem services, and trade-offs among ecosystem services. Several promising approaches are considered by the scenarios, including uses of biodiversity to build resilience of ecosystem services, actively adaptive management, and green technology. Although the scenarios do not prescribe an optimal path, they illuminate the consequences of different policies toward ecosystem services."
- Subjects :
- regime shift
QH301-705.5
Biodiversity
adaptive governance
Total human ecosystem
Ecosystem services
ecological change
Regime shift
Ecosystem
Biology (General)
Resilience (network)
uncertainty
resilience
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
QH540-549.5
biodiversity
poverty reduction
Ecology
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
scenarios
adaptive systems
ComputingMilieux_GENERAL
Adaptive management
ambiguity
response diversity
General & Multiple Resources
Business
ecosystems
ecosystem services
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17083087
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ecology and Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4c7da78c12d8598dc027facae5b1aa04