TY - GEN
T1 - Locally-Provided and Globally-Relevant Ecosystem Services
T2 - 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2020
AU - Broitman, Dani
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Ecosystem services are defined as benefits obtained by humans from ecosystem functions and processes. Although the different types of ecosystem services are well defined, their measurement and quantification has remained controversial despite long last research efforts. A particularly elusive and often neglected aspect of ecosystem services quantification has been a proper identification of the beneficiaries. We argue that a clear-cut distinction between locally-provided and globally-relevant ecosystem services are necessary in order to manage a meaningful debate about ecosystem services quantification. Using a detailed spatial analysis of land-use change and residential location in The Netherlands over almost two decades, we operationalize the distinction between two types of services provided by “green” land uses (protected natural areas, agricultural areas and parks). Recreational services available to nearby dwellers are used as an example of locally-provided ecosystem services, while carbon sequestration exemplifies the globally-relevant category. The conclusion is that while monetary value can be justified as a proxy measure of globally-relevant ecosystem services, non-monetary approaches are appropriate for locally-provided ecosystem services. The distinction between both types of ecosystem services is useful also for policy-making purposes: Quantification of locally-provided services is well suited for spatial planning in general and urban planning in particular, but globally-relevant services assessment (specially its monetary approach) is more informative at national and supranational levels.
AB - Ecosystem services are defined as benefits obtained by humans from ecosystem functions and processes. Although the different types of ecosystem services are well defined, their measurement and quantification has remained controversial despite long last research efforts. A particularly elusive and often neglected aspect of ecosystem services quantification has been a proper identification of the beneficiaries. We argue that a clear-cut distinction between locally-provided and globally-relevant ecosystem services are necessary in order to manage a meaningful debate about ecosystem services quantification. Using a detailed spatial analysis of land-use change and residential location in The Netherlands over almost two decades, we operationalize the distinction between two types of services provided by “green” land uses (protected natural areas, agricultural areas and parks). Recreational services available to nearby dwellers are used as an example of locally-provided ecosystem services, while carbon sequestration exemplifies the globally-relevant category. The conclusion is that while monetary value can be justified as a proxy measure of globally-relevant ecosystem services, non-monetary approaches are appropriate for locally-provided ecosystem services. The distinction between both types of ecosystem services is useful also for policy-making purposes: Quantification of locally-provided services is well suited for spatial planning in general and urban planning in particular, but globally-relevant services assessment (specially its monetary approach) is more informative at national and supranational levels.
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Globally-relevant
KW - Locally-provided
KW - Quantification
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092906168&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-58814-4_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-58814-4_28
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AN - SCOPUS:85092906168
SN - 9783030588137
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 394
EP - 404
BT - Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings
A2 - Gervasi, Osvaldo
A2 - Murgante, Beniamino
A2 - Misra, Sanjay
A2 - Garau, Chiara
A2 - Blecic, Ivan
A2 - Taniar, David
A2 - Apduhan, Bernady O.
A2 - Rocha, Ana Maria A.C.
A2 - Tarantino, Eufemia
A2 - Torre, Carmelo Maria
A2 - Karaca, Yeliz
Y2 - 1 July 2020 through 4 July 2020
ER -