What are ecosystem services? The need for standardized environmental accounting units

By James Boydb, Spencer Banzhafa. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles (2008, background): “Studies that articulate the supply and demand for dung beetle services in a given socio-ecological context such as ecological restoration projects and managed forests will be especially useful (Boyd and Banzhaf, 2007).”
The political ecology of ecosystem services (2015, result): “Our assertion of tight conformity constrasts with Nahlik et al. (2012), Fisher et al. (2009), and Boyd and Banzhaf (2007) who highlight disagreement over the definitions.”
Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground (2016, background): “Divergences of opinion about what constitutes a suitable classification of ecosystem services did not die down completely after the publication of the MEA (e.g., Boyd and Banzhaf, 2007; Wallace, 2007; Costanza, 2008), and various proposals were made to introduce changes.”
Economic valuation and the commodification of ecosystem services (2011, background): “Recent research on ecosystem services has stressed the need to establish discrete and well-defined ecosystem service units that can be incorporated within economic accounting systems (Boyd and Banzhaf, 2007).”
Classifying Ecosystem Services for Economic Valuation: The case of forest water services (2010, background): “Critical studies have put in question what the best classification of ecosystem services is when the goal of the analysis is economic valuation (Boyd and Banzhaf, 2007; Wallace, 2007; Fisher and Turner, 2008).”
Institutional dimensions of Payments for Ecosystem Services: An analysis of Mexico's carbon forestry programme (2009, background): “Confusion in what actually constitutes an ES is not uncommon (Gutman, 2007, pp. 385) and there exist distinct perspectives at this regard (Boyd and Banzhaf, 2007; Daily, 1997).”
Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function (2021, background): “…the ecosystem (Turner et al., 2000), and ecosystem services are the benefits that human populations obtain, directly and indirectly, from ecosystems (Boyd & Banzhaf, 2007; Costanza et al., 1997, 2017; Díaz et al., 2018; Lamarque et al., 2011; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005; Wallace, 2007).”
The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services (2011, background): “It requires certain ‘‘ecosystem services,’’ such as ‘‘surface waters and fish populations,’’ but also ‘‘other goods and services including tackle, boats, time allocation, and access’’ (Boyd and Banzhaf 2007:619).”
Biological measurements in a nationwide soil monitoring network (2009, background): “From a scientific point of view, the knowledge regarding a quantitative assessment of ecosystem services falls short of scientific quality objectives, because most ecosystem services so far remain poorly defined and cannot directly be linked to quantifiable soil attributes (Boyd & Banzhaf, 2007).”
Ecosystem services provided by amphibians and reptiles in Neotropical ecosystems (2013, background): “…classification proposed by the MEA (2005) was chosen, although other classifications of ecosystem services have been proposed (De Groot et al. 2002; Boyd & Banzhaf 2007; Fisher et al. 2009), because it is the best known and reported in the literature, it is easy to understand for stakeholders, and…”
The quantification and valuation of ecosystem services (2011, background): “Ecologically-minded economists call for “standardizedunits of account tomeasure thevalue of ecosystem services to society” (Boyd and Banzhaf, 2007, p. 617).”
The Concept of Ecosystem Services Regarding Landscape Research: A Review (2011, background): “However, according to Boyd and Banzhaf (2007) ecology and economics have failed to standardize the definition and measurement of ecosystem services.”
Twenty thousand sterling under the sea : Estimating the value of protecting deep-sea biodiversity (2014, background): “The experiment focused on the elicitation of economic values for two aspects of 16 marine biodiversity: (i) the existence value for deep-sea species and (ii) the option-use value of deep-17 sea organisms as a source for future medicinal products.”
Integrating spatial valuation of ecosystem services into regional planning and development (2017, background): “The big picture of ESrelated flows is complex, and proper cost-benefit analyses would need to consider non-ecological flows or inputs (Boyd and Banzhaf, 2007), the surface of which was merely scratched here.”