A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Operationalizing ecosystem services for the mitigation of soil threats: A proposed framework
12 páginas.-- 3 figuras.-- 1 tabla.-- referencias.-- Supplementary Table A https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X16301200?via%3Dihub#upi0005 ; Despite numerous research efforts over the last decades, integrating the concept of ecosystem services into land management decision-making continues to pose considerable challenges. Researchers have developed many different frameworks to operationalize the concept, but these are often specific to a certain issue and each has their own definitions and understandings of particular terms. Based on a comprehensive review of the current scientific debate, the EU FP7 project RECARE proposes an adapted framework for soil-related ecosystem services that is suited for practical application in the prevention and remediation of soil degradation across Europe. We have adapted existing frameworks by integrating components from soil science while attempting to introduce a consistentterminology thatis understandable to a variety of stakeholders. RECARE aims to assess how soil threats and prevention and remediation measures affect ecosystem services. Changes in the natural capital’s properties influence soil processes, which support the provision of ecosystem services. The benefits produced by these ecosystem services are explicitly or implicitly valued by individuals and society. This can influence decision- and policymaking at different scales, potentially leading to a societal response, such as improved land management. The proposed ecosystem services framework will be applied by the RECARE project in a transdisciplinary process. It will assist in singling out the most beneficial land management measures and in identifying trade-offs and win–win situations resulting from and impacted by European policies. The framework thus reflects the specific contributions soils make to ecosystem services and helps reveal changes in ecosystem services caused by soil management and policies impacting on soil. At the same time, the framework is simple and robust enough for practical application in assessing soil threats and their management with stakeholders at various levels. ; The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement No. 603498 (RECARE project). The authors wish to thank all partners of RECARE for their useful feedback on the suggested ecosystem services framework during and after the plenary meeting in Padova in March 2015. We are also grateful for the inputs and feedback received during the RECARE ‘Soil Threats and Ecosystem Services’ workshop in Wageningen in May 2014 and the Global Soil Week dialogue session in Berlin in April 2015. Finally, we thank Marlène Thibault of CDE for editing this article and the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. ; Peer reviewed
Operationalizing ecosystem services for the mitigation of soil threats: A proposed framework
12 páginas.-- 3 figuras.-- 1 tabla.-- referencias.-- Supplementary Table A https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X16301200?via%3Dihub#upi0005 ; Despite numerous research efforts over the last decades, integrating the concept of ecosystem services into land management decision-making continues to pose considerable challenges. Researchers have developed many different frameworks to operationalize the concept, but these are often specific to a certain issue and each has their own definitions and understandings of particular terms. Based on a comprehensive review of the current scientific debate, the EU FP7 project RECARE proposes an adapted framework for soil-related ecosystem services that is suited for practical application in the prevention and remediation of soil degradation across Europe. We have adapted existing frameworks by integrating components from soil science while attempting to introduce a consistentterminology thatis understandable to a variety of stakeholders. RECARE aims to assess how soil threats and prevention and remediation measures affect ecosystem services. Changes in the natural capital’s properties influence soil processes, which support the provision of ecosystem services. The benefits produced by these ecosystem services are explicitly or implicitly valued by individuals and society. This can influence decision- and policymaking at different scales, potentially leading to a societal response, such as improved land management. The proposed ecosystem services framework will be applied by the RECARE project in a transdisciplinary process. It will assist in singling out the most beneficial land management measures and in identifying trade-offs and win–win situations resulting from and impacted by European policies. The framework thus reflects the specific contributions soils make to ecosystem services and helps reveal changes in ecosystem services caused by soil management and policies impacting on soil. At the same time, the framework is simple and robust enough for practical application in assessing soil threats and their management with stakeholders at various levels. ; The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement No. 603498 (RECARE project). The authors wish to thank all partners of RECARE for their useful feedback on the suggested ecosystem services framework during and after the plenary meeting in Padova in March 2015. We are also grateful for the inputs and feedback received during the RECARE ‘Soil Threats and Ecosystem Services’ workshop in Wageningen in May 2014 and the Global Soil Week dialogue session in Berlin in April 2015. Finally, we thank Marlène Thibault of CDE for editing this article and the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. ; Peer reviewed
Operationalizing ecosystem services for the mitigation of soil threats: A proposed framework
Schwilch, Gudrun (author) / Bernet, L (author) / Fleskens, Luuk (author) / Giannakis, Elias (author) / Marañón, Teodoro (author) / Leventon, Julia (author) / Mills, Jane (author) / Short, Chris (author) / Stolte, Jannes (author) / van Delden, Hedwig (author)
2016-04-25
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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710