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Title
Limitations of the ecosystem services versus disservices dichotomy
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008:
Author(s)
Luck, Gary W
Publication Date
2016
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008
Abstract
Ongoing debate over the ecosystem services (ES) concept highlights a range of contrasting views and misconceptions. Schröter et al. (2014) summarize seven recurring arguments against the ES concept, which broadly relate to ethical concerns, translation across the science-policy interface, and how the concept's normative aims and optimistic assumptions affect ES as a scientific approach. In particular, recent criticism has focused on how the concept is unable to address ecological complexity due to the limitations of the economic stock-flow model that ES is based on (Norgaard 2010). Acknowledging ecosystem disservices (EDS) (i.e., outcomes of ecosystem functions that negatively affect human communities) has been suggested as a way to account for this ecological complexity (McCauley 2006; Lyytimäki 2015).
Publication Type
Journal Article
Source of Publication
Conservation Biology, 30(6), p. 1363-1365
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc
Place of Publication
United States of America
ISSN
1523-1739
0888-8892
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020
Peer Reviewed
Yes
HERDC Category Description
Peer Reviewed
Yes
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