Land-use options for Del Plata Basin in South America: Tradeoffs analysis based on ecosystem service provision

By E. Viglizzo, F. Frank. 2006

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Abstract The Del Plata Basin is one of the largest watersheds in the world and is the epicenter of MERCOSUR activities in the Southern Cone of South America. Because of the quick expansion of agricultural activities during the 1990s, the imbalanced provision of economic and ecological services has become an issue of increasing concern in the area. In this work, we propose a policy-oriented methodological approach to harmonize land-use options and prevent potential trans-boundary problems among countries. The approach is based on the analysis of tradeoffs between various economic and ecological services that are differentially provided by trans-boundary, interconnected biomes. Data on land-use/land-cover for different biomes have been obtained from different statistical and literature sources. The value of ecosystem services in the study biomes has been obtained from the classical study by Costanza et al. (1997) [Costanza, R., d'Arge, R., de Groot, R., Farber, S., Grasso, M., Hannon, B., Limburg, K., Shahid, Naeem, O'Neill, R.V., Paruelo, J., Raskin, R.G., Sutton, P., van den Belt, M., 1997. The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387, 253–260], and profit estimations for crop and livestock production has been collected from various economic studies. The results show that the difference between biomes to supply both economic and ecological services in Del Plata Basin is enormous, and cultivation of new lands in some biomes would neither compensate nor justify the loss of irreplaceable ecological services. However, although agricultural exploitation may drastically affect the supply of ecological services in some biomes, not all of them would be equally affected. For example, due to its smaller sensitivity, the environmental cost of cultivation in the Argentine Pampas seems to be rather negligible in relation to the Pantanal or the Cerrado. Then, the functional complementation of biomes across the area through tradeoffs analysis seems to be a viable broad scale strategy to identify sustainable land-use options in Del Plata Basin.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Creating win-wins from trade-offs? Ecosystem services for human well-being: A meta-analysis of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies in the real world (2014, background): “, 2008; Barbier, 2011), with changes induced by agriculture upstream affecting downstream water quality and quantity (Gordon et al., 2010; Viglizzo and Frank, 2006).”
Global Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2007, methodology): “Nonetheless, the ESV analysis is the only global compilation of valuations for a range of services and habitat types, and has been used as a source for ESV estimates at regional (Viglizzo and Frank 2006) and global scales (Balmford and Bond 2005).”
Land use change and its driving forces on the Tibetan Plateau during 1990-2000 (2008, background): “Because of the quick expansion of agricultural activities during the 1990s, the imbalanced provision of economic and ecological services has also become an issue of increasing concern in Del Plata Basin in South America (Viglizzo and Frank, 2006).”
Global Biodiversity Conservation and the Alleviation of Poverty (2012, methodology): “analysis is the only published global compilation of values for a range of services and habitat types and has been used as a source for ESV estimates at regional (Viglizzo and Frank 2006) and global (Balmford and Bond 2005, Turner et al. 2007) scales.”
Interactions Among Ecosystem Services Across Land Uses in a Floodplain (2014, background): “Most studies of multiple ES use GIS and satellite images (Kreuter et al. 2001, Konarska et al. 2002, Chen et al. 2009), global databases (Viglizzo and Frank 2006, Tianhong et al. 2010), or models to estimate ES provision (Nelson et al. 2009, Goldstein et al. 2012).”
Multi-causal and integrated assessment of sustainability: the case of agriculturization in the Argentine Pampas (2009, background): “Degradation of services related to erosion control, and the regulation of water and nutrients cycles were reported in the entire area, but are more severe in the extra-Pampean regions ( Viglizzo and Frank 2006 ).”
Watershed services of tropical forests: from hydrology to economic valuation to integrated analysis (2009, unknown): “, [37,38,39]].”
Mapping ecosystem services' values: current practice and future prospects. (2013, unknown): “(Viglizzo and Frank, 2006), 65.”
Ecosystem Services, Land-Cover Change, and Stakeholders: Finding a Sustainable Foothold for a Semiarid Biodiversity Hotspot (2009, methodology): “…carried out rely on landcover change data (derived from remote sensing) and ecosystem service value coefficients (usually extracted from Costanza et al. 1997) to calculate changes in ecosystem service values over time (Kreuter et al. 2001, Zhao et al. 2004, Viglizzo and Frank 2006, Li et al. 2007).”