Ecosystem services in agricultural and urban landscapes/ Wratten,Steve ...[et al]. [ed.]

Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK: John wiley & sons ltd., 2012Edition: 1st.edDescription: 200 pagesISBN: 9781405170086 (cloth)DDC classification: 333.72
Contents:
Part A: Scene Setting 1 Ecosystem Services in Farmland and Cities Harpinder Sandhti and Steve Wratten Abstract Introduction What are ecosystem services? Ecosystem functions, goods and services The ES framework Engineered systems Agricultural systems Urban systems ES and their interactions in engineered systems 2 Ecological Processes, Functions and Ecosystem Services: Inextricable Linkages between Wetlands and Agricultural Systems Onil Banerjee, Neville D. Grossman and Rudolf S. de Groot Abstract Introduction Linking ecosystem function with ecosystem service Wetlands Wetland functions Wetland-agricultural systems interactions Some research challenges Understanding complexity and resilience Trade-offs Key Ideas and Concepts from Economics for Understanding the Roles and Value of Ecosystem Services Pamela Kaval and Ramesh Baskaran Abstract How can ecosystem services be valued? Ecosystem service valuation methodologies Revealed preference methods Stated preference methods Other methods How ecosystem services have been measured in the past Ecosystem service valuation study recommendations Conclusions Part B: Ecosystem Services in Three Settings 4 Viticulture can be Modified to Provide Multiple Ecosystem Services Sofia Orre-Gordon, Marco Jacometti, Jean Tompkins and Steve Wratten Abstract Introduction Enhancing CBC in vineyards Leafrollers and Botrytis cinerea in the vineyards Habitat modification to enhance naturally occurring pest control Floral resource supplementation as a form of habitat modification Mulch application as a form of habitat modification Combining two forms of habitat modification The deployment of herbivore-induced plant volatiles as a form of habitat modification Habitat modification may provide further ecosystem services The future / 5 Aquaculture and Ecosystem Services: Reframing the Environmental and Social Debate Corinne Baulcomb Abstract Introduction Aquaculture and the environment A typology of aquaculture operations and the link to ecosystem services Inland production systems Overview Case study 1: hypothetical integrated agriculture-aquaculture carp polyculture Case study 2: hypothetical inland marine shrimp cultivation Marine and coastal-based production systems Overview Case study 3: hypothetic nearshore, intensive and raft-based shellfish cultivation Case study 4: hypothetical 'best-case' offshore aquaculture cultivation The value of a complementary life-cycle approach Conclusion 6 Urban Landscapes and Ecosystem Services Jiirgen Breuste, Dagmar Haase and Thomas Elmqvist Abstract Growing urban landscapes The process of urbanization Urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystems Urbanization and management of ecosystems - challenges Urban ecosystem services What are urban ecosystem services? Classification of UES Land use - basic information on human influence on ecosystem services Urban green - carrier of UES Types of urban green space Recreation Climate regulation Biodiversity Carbon mitigation Rapid growth of soil sealing - destruction of UES and its avoidance Climate change - challenges for UES Increase in temperature Precipitation Sea level rise UES in urban landscape planning Part C: Measuring and Monitoring Ecosystem Services at Multiple Levels 7 Scale-dependent Ecosystem Service Yangjian Zhang, Clans Holzapfel and Xiaoyong Yuan Abstract Introduction Scale Ecosystem service is scale dependent The ecosystem beneficiary is scale dependent Ecosystem service measurement is scale dependent Ecosystem service management decision making is scale dependent Ecosystem service types Ecosystem service studies need to consider scale Case studies Liberty State Park Interior . Qinghai-Tibet plateau Conclusions 8 Experimental Assessment of Ecosystem Services in Agriculture Harpinder Sandhn, John Porter and Steve Wratten Abstract Introduction ES in agroecosystems Provisioning goods and services ■- Supporting services Regulating services Cultural services Field-scale assessment of ES The combined food and energy system New Zealand arable farmland Scenarios of production and ES in agroecosystems The ethnocentric systems The technocentric systems The ecocentric systems The ecotechnocentric systems The sustaincentric systems Conclusions Part D: Designing Ecological Systems to Deliver Ecosystem Services 9 Towards Multifunctional Agricultural Landscapes for the Upper Midwest Region of the USA Nicholas Jordan and Keith Douglass Warner Abstract Introduction Multifunctional agroecosystems Re-designed agricultural landscapes for the Upper Midwest Moving forward on design and implementation of multifunctional landscapes for the Upper Midwest Theory of change: a social-ecological system model for increasing multifunctionality of agricultural landscapes Focal level: enterprise development via 'virtuous circles' Subsystem level: collaborative social learning for multifunctional agriculture Supersystem level: re-visioning the social metabolism of American agriculture Applying the theory of change: the Koda Energy fuelshed project Enterprise development Agroecological partnership Re-shaping public opinion and policy Conclusions 10 Supply Chain Management and the Delivery of Ecosystems Services in Manufacturing Mary Haropoidoti, Cliue Snialhnan and Jack Radford Abstract Towards the sustainable economic production of goods and services? Ecological economics and supply chain management: a review and synthesis Conventional economic and ecologically economic production Conventional SCM: economic efficiency through distribution network configuration and strategy Green SCM: the economic inefficiency of waste Sustainable SCM: connecting social, economic and ecological performance Enabling ecological economics: SSCM A case in point: 'what do we do with it now?' WYM background The economic production of wool yarn Goods Wastes Ecological services and amenities Natural capital Human capital Social capital Manufactured capital Community and individual well-being Discussion Conclusion 11 Market-based Instruments and Ecosystem Services: Opportunity and Experience to Date Stuart M. Whitten and Anthea Coggan Abstract Introduction Market-based instruments: definition and preconditions Types of MBIs Examples of MBIs for ecosystem services Price-based MBIs Quantity-based MBIs Market friction MBIs The brave new world of ecosystem markets Designing effective MBIs • Where to next in the brave new world of markets for ecosystem services?
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Part A: Scene Setting
1 Ecosystem Services in Farmland and Cities
Harpinder Sandhti and Steve Wratten
Abstract
Introduction
What are ecosystem services?
Ecosystem functions, goods and services
The ES framework
Engineered systems
Agricultural systems
Urban systems
ES and their interactions in engineered systems
2 Ecological Processes, Functions and Ecosystem
Services: Inextricable Linkages between Wetlands
and Agricultural Systems
Onil Banerjee, Neville D. Grossman and Rudolf S. de Groot
Abstract
Introduction
Linking ecosystem function with ecosystem service
Wetlands
Wetland functions
Wetland-agricultural systems interactions
Some research challenges
Understanding complexity and resilience
Trade-offs
Key Ideas and Concepts from Economics
for Understanding the Roles and Value
of Ecosystem Services
Pamela Kaval and Ramesh Baskaran
Abstract
How can ecosystem services be valued?
Ecosystem service valuation methodologies
Revealed preference methods
Stated preference methods
Other methods
How ecosystem services have been measured in the past
Ecosystem service valuation study recommendations
Conclusions
Part B: Ecosystem Services in Three Settings
4 Viticulture can be Modified to Provide
Multiple Ecosystem Services
Sofia Orre-Gordon, Marco Jacometti, Jean Tompkins
and Steve Wratten
Abstract
Introduction
Enhancing CBC in vineyards
Leafrollers and Botrytis cinerea in the vineyards
Habitat modification to enhance naturally occurring
pest control
Floral resource supplementation as a form of
habitat modification
Mulch application as a form of habitat modification
Combining two forms of habitat modification
The deployment of herbivore-induced plant volatiles
as a form of habitat modification
Habitat modification may provide further
ecosystem services
The future
/
5 Aquaculture and Ecosystem Services:
Reframing the Environmental and Social Debate
Corinne Baulcomb
Abstract
Introduction
Aquaculture and the environment
A typology of aquaculture operations and the link
to ecosystem services
Inland production systems
Overview
Case study 1: hypothetical integrated agriculture-aquaculture
carp polyculture
Case study 2: hypothetical inland marine
shrimp cultivation
Marine and coastal-based production systems
Overview
Case study 3: hypothetic nearshore, intensive and raft-based
shellfish cultivation
Case study 4: hypothetical 'best-case' offshore
aquaculture cultivation
The value of a complementary life-cycle approach
Conclusion
6 Urban Landscapes and Ecosystem Services
Jiirgen Breuste, Dagmar Haase and Thomas Elmqvist
Abstract
Growing urban landscapes
The process of urbanization
Urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystems
Urbanization and management of ecosystems -
challenges
Urban ecosystem services
What are urban ecosystem services?
Classification of UES
Land use - basic information on human influence
on ecosystem services
Urban green - carrier of UES
Types of urban green space
Recreation
Climate regulation
Biodiversity
Carbon mitigation
Rapid growth of soil sealing - destruction of UES
and its avoidance
Climate change - challenges for UES
Increase in temperature
Precipitation
Sea level rise
UES in urban landscape planning
Part C: Measuring and Monitoring Ecosystem Services
at Multiple Levels
7 Scale-dependent Ecosystem Service
Yangjian Zhang, Clans Holzapfel and Xiaoyong Yuan
Abstract
Introduction
Scale
Ecosystem service is scale dependent
The ecosystem beneficiary is scale dependent
Ecosystem service measurement is scale dependent
Ecosystem service management decision making is scale dependent
Ecosystem service types
Ecosystem service studies need to consider scale
Case studies
Liberty State Park Interior
. Qinghai-Tibet plateau
Conclusions
8 Experimental Assessment of Ecosystem Services
in Agriculture
Harpinder Sandhn, John Porter and Steve Wratten
Abstract
Introduction
ES in agroecosystems
Provisioning goods and services ■-
Supporting services
Regulating services
Cultural services
Field-scale assessment of ES
The combined food and energy system
New Zealand arable farmland
Scenarios of production and ES in agroecosystems
The ethnocentric systems
The technocentric systems
The ecocentric systems
The ecotechnocentric systems
The sustaincentric systems
Conclusions
Part D: Designing Ecological Systems
to Deliver Ecosystem Services
9 Towards Multifunctional Agricultural Landscapes
for the Upper Midwest Region of the USA
Nicholas Jordan and Keith Douglass Warner
Abstract
Introduction
Multifunctional agroecosystems
Re-designed agricultural landscapes for the Upper Midwest
Moving forward on design and implementation
of multifunctional landscapes for the Upper Midwest
Theory of change: a social-ecological system model for
increasing multifunctionality of agricultural landscapes
Focal level: enterprise development via 'virtuous circles'
Subsystem level: collaborative social learning
for multifunctional agriculture
Supersystem level: re-visioning the social metabolism
of American agriculture
Applying the theory of change: the Koda Energy fuelshed project
Enterprise development
Agroecological partnership
Re-shaping public opinion and policy
Conclusions
10 Supply Chain Management and the Delivery of
Ecosystems Services in Manufacturing
Mary Haropoidoti, Cliue Snialhnan and Jack Radford
Abstract
Towards the sustainable economic production of goods
and services?
Ecological economics and supply chain management:
a review and synthesis
Conventional economic and ecologically economic production
Conventional SCM: economic efficiency through distribution
network configuration and strategy
Green SCM: the economic inefficiency of waste
Sustainable SCM: connecting social, economic
and ecological performance
Enabling ecological economics: SSCM
A case in point: 'what do we do with it now?'
WYM background
The economic production of wool yarn
Goods
Wastes
Ecological services and amenities
Natural capital
Human capital
Social capital
Manufactured capital
Community and individual well-being
Discussion
Conclusion
11 Market-based Instruments and Ecosystem Services:
Opportunity and Experience to Date
Stuart M. Whitten and Anthea Coggan
Abstract
Introduction
Market-based instruments: definition and preconditions
Types of MBIs
Examples of MBIs for ecosystem services
Price-based MBIs
Quantity-based MBIs
Market friction MBIs
The brave new world of ecosystem markets
Designing effective MBIs
• Where to next in the brave new world of markets
for ecosystem services?

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