Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services

This handbook provides a comprehensive reference text on ecosystem services, integrating natural and social science (including economics). Collectively the chapters, written by the world's leading authorities, demonstrate the importance of biodiversity for people, policy and practice.

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades. It is shaping our understanding of the role that biodiverse ecosystems play in the environment and their benefits for humankind. As a result, there is a growing interest in operational and methodological issues surrounding ecosystem services amongst environmental managers, and many institutions are now developing teaching programmes to equip the next generation with the skills needed to apply the concepts more effectively.

This handbook provides a comprehensive reference text on ecosystem services, integrating natural and social science (including economics). Collectively the chapters, written by the world's leading authorities, demonstrate the importance of biodiversity for people, policy and practice. They also show how the value of ecosystems to society can be expressed in monetary and non-monetary terms, so that the environment can be better taken into account in decision making. The significance of the ecosystem service paradigm is that it helps us redefine and better communicate the relationships between people and nature. It is shown how these are essential to resolving challenges such as sustainable development and poverty reduction, and the creation of a green economy in developing and developed world contexts.

"The Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services is an eminently useful handbook for experts, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and students who deal with the topic of ES. Written by international leaders in the field, the book has a clear structure that will help the readers find answers to their theoretical or practical questions. This piece of work will be an important reference in ES science and practice for decades, and it is a good standard for those preparing similar handbooks or textbooks in other disciplines." - Marton Kiss, Department of Climatology and Landscape Ecology, University of Szeged, Hungary "This handbook, written by world class academic and policy experts, is long overdue, and provides a much-needed guide to address this challenge. It is an authoritative reference text written in easy to read sections that is essential reading for academics, decision-makers and civil society." from the Foreword by Sir Robert Watson, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK "Marion Potschin and her co-editors have succeeded to get an interesting combination of contributors to this book, including highly distinguished scientists from various disciplines to younger scholars who are presently carrying out seminal research in the field of ecosystem services and beyond." Professor Eeva Furman, SYKE, Finish Environment Institute and Coordinator of OpenNESS "At 630 pages, it is a Handbook for people with big hands. It is a weighty tome too. This is not merely in terms of its mass (a fraction over 1.3kg) but in the range and depth of topics pertaining to ecosystem services that are covered, and the globally renowned authors who have contributed. Following a foreword by Bob Watson and an opening chapter by Bob Costanza, the Handbook is broken into four major sections addressing ecosystem services from the perspectives of: concepts and frameworks; methods and techniques for decision support; applied contexts; and linking and informing agendas... Each of the chapters mines the now voluminous and growing literature around its selected topic. This alone is a valuable resource for students, scholars and those seeking to implement ecosystem services... students, researchers and those seeking to grasp and implement the emerging, integrative concept of ecosystem services will benefit from dipping into it as a reference book to glean current thinking, areas of debate and practical illustrations." - Mark Everard, for the The Institution of Environmental Sciences (on-line Resources, June 2016) "The clearly written and presented chapters make this book highly accessible to a wide range of readers from students to specialists. I am sure this book will become a key text in this field and that I'll return to it frequently as a point of reference for future work on ecosystem services". - Rob Brooker, in The Bulletin of the British Ecological Society (October 2016)

Autorentext

Marion Potschin is a Principal Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Roy Haines-Young is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Environmental Management, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK.

Robert Fish is Reader in Human Ecology in the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent, UK.

R. Kerry Turner is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Environmental Sciences and former Professor of Environmental Economics and Management at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Inhalt

Foreword Robert Watson 1. Ecosystem Services in the Twenty-first Century Marion Potschin, Roy Haines-Young, Robert Fish and R. Kerry Turner Part 1: Ecosystem Services Concepts and Frameworks - Introduction 2. Ecosystem Services in Theory and Practice Robert Costanza 3. Defining and Measuring Ecosystem Services Marion Potschin and Roy Haines-Young Briefing Note 3.1: Ecosystem Functions: A Critical Perspective Kurt Jax 4. The Links between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Patricia Balvanera, Sandra Quijas, Berta Martín-López, Edmundo Barrios, Laura Dee, Forest Isbell, Isabelle Durance, Piran White, Ryan Blanchard and Rudolf de Groot Briefing Note 4.1: Service Providing Units Gary Luck 5. Ecosystem Structures and Processes: Characterising Natural Capital Stocks and Flows Dave Raffaelli 6. The Beneficiary Perspective: Benefits and Beyond Dixon H. Landers, Amanda M. Nahlik and Charles R. Rhodes 7. A Social-Ecological Perspective on Ecosystem Services Lasse Loft, Alexandra Lux and Thomas Jahn Briefing Note 7.1: Transdisciplinarity Jennifer Hauck Briefing Note 7.2: Drivers of Change for Ecosystem Services Mark Rounsevell and Paula A. Harrison 8. Concepts and Methods in Ecosystem Services Valuation Erik Gómez-Baggethun, David N. Barton, Pam Berry, Robert Dunford and Paula A. Harrison 9. A Critical Perspective Mark Sagoff 10. Economics and Ecosystem Services: a Positive Contribution to Environmental Management R. Kerry Turner Part 2: Ecosystem Services:Methods, Techniques for Decision Support - Introduction 11. Frameworks for Ecosystem Assessments Marion Potschin and Roy Haines-Young Briefing Note 11.1: Place-based Assessment of Small Islands' Ecosystem Services Mario V. Balzan, Marion Potschin and Roy Haines-Young 12. Modelling Ecosystem Services Felix Kienast and Julian Helfenstein 13. Indicators for Ecosystem Services Felix Müller, Benjamin Burkhard, Ying Hou, Marion Kruse, Liwei Ma and Peter Wangai 14. Using Futures-thinking to Support Ecosystem Assessments Steven Cork 15. Mapping Ecosystem Services Joachim Maes, Neville D. Crossman and Benjamin Burkhard 16. A Practical Approach to Mapping of Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services using Remote Sensing Camino Liquete, Eva Haas, Torsten Bondo, Christina Hirzinger, Melanie Schnelle, Dominik Reisinger, David Lyon, John Finisdore and Michael Ledwith Briefing Note 16.1: Remote Sensing Giles M. Foody 17. An Introduction to Ecosystem Accounting Lars Hein, Bram Edens, Carl Obst, Roy Remme, Matthias Schröter and Elham Sumarga 18. Accounting for Ecosystem Services in Business Joel R.A. Houdet, John Finisdore, Julia Martin-Ortega, Helen Ding, John Maleganos, James Spurgeon, Tobias Hartmann, and David Steuerman 19. …