The promise of the ecosystem services concept for planning and decision-making

authored by

Jennifer Hauck, Burkhard Schweppe-Kraft, Christian Albert, Christoph Görg, Kurt Jax, Rita Jensen, Christine Fürst, Joachim Maes, Irene Ring, Iva Hönigová, Benjamin Burkhard, Marion Mehring, Maria Tiefenbach, Karsten Grunewald, Markus Schwarzer, Julian Meurer, Mario Sommerhäuser, Jörg A. Priess, Jenny Schmidt, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

Abstract

Spatial planning is often affected by conflicting sectoral interests. Frequently, this results in unsustainable management practices. Integrating the concept of ecosystem services into planning and decision-making can facilitate communica tion among decision-makers from sectors like landscape and urban planning, agriculture or water management. The concept accounts for a broad spectrum of quantitative and qualitative data from local to international level, thus revealing the benefits humans derive from ecosystem goods and functions.We propose that the concept of ecosystem services can complement existing policy instruments that focus solely on a specific task or sectoral interest.

External Organisation(s)

Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health
International Academy for Nature Conservation, Isle of Vilm
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)

Type

Review article

Journal

GAIA

Volume

22

Pages

232-236

No. of pages

5

ISSN

0940-5550

Publication date

12.2013

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.22.4.6 (Access: Unknown)