TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being
T2 - three challenges for designing research for sustainability
AU - Bennett, Elena M.
AU - Cramer, Wolfgang
AU - Begossi, Alpina
AU - Cundill, Georgina
AU - Díaz, Sandra
AU - Egoh, Benis N.
AU - Geijzendorffer, Ilse R.
AU - Krug, Cornelia B.
AU - Lavorel, Sandra
AU - Lazos, Elena
AU - Lebel, Louis
AU - Martín-López, Berta
AU - Meyfroidt, Patrick
AU - Mooney, Harold A.
AU - Nel, Jeanne L.
AU - Pascual, Unai
AU - Payet, Karine
AU - Harguindeguy, Natalia Pérez
AU - Peterson, Garry D.
AU - Prieur-Richard, Anne Hélène
AU - Reyers, Belinda
AU - Roebeling, Peter
AU - Seppelt, Ralf
AU - Solan, Martin
AU - Tschakert, Petra
AU - Tscharntke, Teja
AU - Turner, B. L.
AU - Verburg, Peter H.
AU - Viglizzo, Ernesto F.
AU - White, Piran C.L.
AU - Woodward, Guy
N1 - Funding Information:
The core of this article is based on the discussions during a workshop, held at ICSU, Paris, in November 2013, with members of the new ecoSERVICES Scientific Committee, as well as a number of additional experts. We thank all participants for very constructive participation, ICSU for hosting the workshop, and DIVERSITAS for financial support to ecoSERVICES. We also thank the editors and two anonymous reviewers for very useful comments that helped us improve the paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Ecosystem services research needs to become more transdisciplinary.•ecoSERVICES will advance co-designed, transdisciplinary ecosystem service research. Ecosystem services have become a mainstream concept for the expression of values assigned by people to various functions of ecosystems. Even though the introduction of the concept has initiated a vast amount of research, progress in using this knowledge for sustainable resource use remains insufficient. We see a need to broaden the scope of research to answer three key questions that we believe will improve incorporation of ecosystem service research into decision-making for the sustainable use of natural resources to improve human well-being: (i) how are ecosystem services co-produced by social-ecological systems, (ii) who benefits from the provision of ecosystem services, and (iii) what are the best practices for the governance of ecosystem services? Here, we present these key questions, the rationale behind them, and their related scientific challenges in a globally coordinated research programme aimed towards improving sustainable ecosystem management. These questions will frame the activities of ecoSERVICES, formerly a DIVERSITAS project and now a project of Future Earth, in its role as a platform to foster global coordination of multidisciplinary sustainability science through the lens of ecosystem services.
AB - Ecosystem services research needs to become more transdisciplinary.•ecoSERVICES will advance co-designed, transdisciplinary ecosystem service research. Ecosystem services have become a mainstream concept for the expression of values assigned by people to various functions of ecosystems. Even though the introduction of the concept has initiated a vast amount of research, progress in using this knowledge for sustainable resource use remains insufficient. We see a need to broaden the scope of research to answer three key questions that we believe will improve incorporation of ecosystem service research into decision-making for the sustainable use of natural resources to improve human well-being: (i) how are ecosystem services co-produced by social-ecological systems, (ii) who benefits from the provision of ecosystem services, and (iii) what are the best practices for the governance of ecosystem services? Here, we present these key questions, the rationale behind them, and their related scientific challenges in a globally coordinated research programme aimed towards improving sustainable ecosystem management. These questions will frame the activities of ecoSERVICES, formerly a DIVERSITAS project and now a project of Future Earth, in its role as a platform to foster global coordination of multidisciplinary sustainability science through the lens of ecosystem services.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2015.03.007
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2015.03.007
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84928154714
VL - 14
SP - 76
EP - 85
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
SN - 1877-3435
ER -