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Integrating Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 5785

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Bradley J. Cardinale

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School for Environment & Sustainability, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
Interests: conservation biology; restoration ecology; ecological design; ecosystem services

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of Sustainability titled “Integrating Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development.” Sustainable development seeks to achieve a balance between exploitation of the world’s natural resources for current socio-economic development, and the conservation of natural resources that are needed to ensure a good quality of life for future generations. Ecosystem services, sometimes called ‘natural capital’ or ‘nature’s benefits’ to people, are essential for human well-being, and, thus, are integral to all applications of sustainable development. Yet, ecosystem services are often ignored, or play only a tangential role, in planning and activities geared towards sustainable development, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

This Special Issue will address a fundamental question: How do we better integrate ecosystem services into sustainable development goals and activities in order to improve policy and management decisions? We are soliciting papers for this Special Issue that address this fundamental question in any form, including viewpoints, reviews, syntheses, meta-analyses, or original research. We especially invite papers that push the boundaries, and which might be considered too exploratory or avant-garde for other journals.

References:

  1. Wood, S.L.R.; Jones, S.K.; Johnson, J.A.; Brauman, K.A.; Chaplin-Kramere,R.; Fremier, A.; Girvetz, E.; Gordon, L.J. Kappel, C.V.; Mandle, L. et al., Distilling the role of ecosystem services in the Sustainable Development Goals. Ecosyst. Services. 2018, 29, 70–82.
  2. Maes, J.; Jacobs, S. Nature-Based Solutions for Europe's Sustainable Development. Conserv. Letters. 2017, 10, 121–124.
  3. Geijzendorffer, I.R.; Cohen-Shacham, E.; Cord, A.F.; Cramer, W.; Guerra, C.; Guerra, B. Ecosystem services in global sustainability policies. Environ. Sci. Policy. 2017, 74, 40–48.

Prof. Dr. Bradley J. Cardinale
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • ecosystem services
  • natural capital
  • nature’s services
  • 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • conservation
  • socio-economic development

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Establishing Ecological Security Patterns Based on Reconstructed Ecosystem Services Value in Rapidly Urbanizing Areas: A Case Study in Zhuhai City, China
by Yiming Liu, Nan Cui, Rui Han and Luo Guo
Sustainability 2020, 12(16), 6629; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166629 - 17 Aug 2020
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Rapid urbanization has caused a reduction in green lands, negatively affecting the functions of ecosystem services (ESs). The 11th goal and other goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have highlighted the importance of the balanced development of cities and the [...] Read more.
Rapid urbanization has caused a reduction in green lands, negatively affecting the functions of ecosystem services (ESs). The 11th goal and other goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have highlighted the importance of the balanced development of cities and the environment. ESs are essential for human well-being, so their application in sustainable development study is indispensable. The ecological security pattern (ESP) provides an integrated strategy for maintaining a balance between a sustainable supply of ESs and urbanization. However, establishing an ESP with the goal of satisfying human requirements for ESs in a rapidly urbanizing area has not been well studied. Thus, it is necessary to build an ESP based on ecosystem service value (ESV) reconstruction to manage urban ecosystems sustainably. Based on land use data and field data, this study approached the research gap by related analyses. The first analysis involved dynamic reconstruction of ESVs using the static ESV and importance indices of ESs from 1999–2013. The second analysis involved using hot spot analysis (Getis-Ord Gi * statistics) to distinguish heterogeneous units of the dynamic ESV to identify ecological sources. The third analysis involved establishing the ESP in Zhuhai city, using the minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model. The results indicated that the ESV of Zhuhai city displayed an upward trend. The functions of water conservation and waste treatment contributed most to the total ESV, while grain production and raw material contributed least in the study area. In the restructuring of ESVs in 2005, 2009, and 2013, the per unit area of the ESV decreased slightly. The areas with high ESVs continued to shrink, while the areas with low ESVs gradually expanded. The ESP of Zhuhai city exhibits great connectivity and strong plasticity, which specifically provides a reliable and visual way to build sustainable cities from a quantitative perspective, generally consistent with the urban ecological planning of Zhuhai city. This study provides an important reference for the application of ESs to achieve SDGs in coastal, rapidly urbanizing regions. Full article
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Payment Criteria and Mode for Watershed Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Heihe River Basin, Northwest China
by Xiaoyu Song, Yuqing Liu, Fanglei Zhong, Xiaohong Deng, Yuan Qi, Jinlong Zhang, Rong Zhang and Yongnian Zhang
Sustainability 2020, 12(15), 6177; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156177 - 31 Jul 2020
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Quantitative evaluation of the relationship between payment criteria and the amount of additional ecosystem services can improve the cost-effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services (PES) projects. This paper simulated additional water conservation (AWC) using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model, examined [...] Read more.
Quantitative evaluation of the relationship between payment criteria and the amount of additional ecosystem services can improve the cost-effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services (PES) projects. This paper simulated additional water conservation (AWC) using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model, examined appropriate payment criteria, and matched different payment modes with local herders’ preferences in Northwest China. The results showed that if all the low-coverage grass areas were to be closed through PES projects, the actual payment criteria, 37 yuan/ha, would need to be increased eight times, which would be 302 yuan/ha. Along with that, annual AWC could reach 1.69 × 106 m3. If PES projects were implemented in all the low- and medium-coverage grass areas, payment criteria would need to be increased to 365 yuan/ha, and the annual AWC would reach 2.59 × 106 m3. There were scale economy effects in this range, because a 21% increase in the payment criteria would result in a 66% increase in the total AWC. The appropriate mode for herders above 40 years old is “cash + in-kind compensation” and “cash + capacity” for those below 40, due to the preferences varying in age. Full article
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