Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

By A. Guerry, Stephen Polasky, Jane Lubchenco, R. Chaplin‐Kramer, Gretchen Daily, R. Griffin, M. Ruckelshaus, Ian J. Bateman, Anantha K. Duraiappah, T. Elmqvist and 13 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Assessing water ecosystem services for water resource management (2016, background): “Understanding the linkages between the natural and socio-economic systems can lead to improved and more sustainable management of ecosystems (Guerry et al., 2015).”
Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Development Goals, and Need to Focus on Circular Economy and Policy Interventions (2021, background): “Determining the impact of MPs on ecosystem services and subsequently on human well-being is beneficial to highlight the real-world problem for the various stakeholders in the society [137,155].”
A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations (2020, background): “…of modernism, both complex systems and relational approaches fail to grasp how their core tenets have already been incorporated into neoliberal (Guerry et al. 2015) and neo-modernist agendas (Asafu-Adjaye et al. 2015) – a tension captured in the science-based targets network’s promise to…”
Is Adaptive Co-management Delivering? Examining Relationships Between Collaboration, Learning and Outcomes in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (2017, background): “Guerry et al. (2015) observe that: data is often incomplete, inadequate and costly to collect; program impacts require comparative conditions, often at landscape scales; policy impacts are complicated by confounding factors, lag times and complex feedbacks; and, attribution of impacts from…”
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change (2019, neutral): “These various contributions are now widely recognized in the scientific literature, but governmental policies and markettransactions typically do not reflect their full value ( 7 ).”
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Comparing alternative frameworks for integrated valuation of ecosystem services (2016, neutral): “The importance of these services is widely recognized, but operational mechanisms and approaches for integrating them into policy-making and management practices are still poorly developed (Kareiva et al. 2011; Guerry et al. 2015; Kabisch 2015).”
Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China (2017, background): “Well-designed PAs can harmonize people and nature and yield improvements in the well-being of both (10).”
A comparative analysis of ecosystem services valuation approaches for application at the local scale and in data scarce regions (2016, background): “The valuation of ecosystem services (both quantitative and qualitative) and their integration into policy and decision making practices has been a matter of debate ever since the concept first emerged in the early 1990s (Daily, 1997; de Groot et al., 2002; Brauman et al., 2007; Daily et al., 2009, d”