Environment & Ecosystem Science (EES)

ANALYSING TRADE-OFFS IN MANAGEMENT DECISION- MAKING BETWEEN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, AND COMMODITY PRODUCTION IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON NATIONAL RESERVE

March 7, 2019 Posted by din In Environment & Ecosystem Science (EES)

ABSTRACT

ANALYSING TRADE-OFFS IN MANAGEMENT DECISION- MAKING BETWEEN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, AND COMMODITY PRODUCTION IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON NATIONAL RESERVE

Journal: Environment & Ecosystem Science (EES)

Author: Diego Hopkins, Zen Makuch, Karen Makuch

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

DOI: 10.26480/ees.02.2019.01.08

The Ecosystem Services concept has been developed in recent decades through both academic and international institutions. Nowadays, most of the literature agrees that ecosystem services constitute a crucial contribution to human well-being. Most studies focus on final ecosystem services which are directly identifiable amongst society’s consumption habits. Ecosystem services generally named “Provisioning Services” seem to be the masterpiece of ecosystem services provided by nature, and their contribution to human well-being is linked to their economic relevance. In most cases this can be easily determined as there are markets already developed to evaluate these services. Nonetheless, final ecosystem services are supported by often-overlooked Intermediate Ecosystem Services, which do not have a structured market and yet hold an economic relevance that could directly affect society. Similarly, cultural ecosystem services are often difficult to economically assess as it is very difficult to put a price on intrinsic values. T hough Regulating and Cultural Ecosystem Services are difficult to value, they are of vital importance to society and must be evaluated when making any assessment locally or regionally. In order to yield a better understanding of the importance of all ecosystem service categories, we propose a spatial-temporal limited study to pinpoint the synergies and trade-offs between Ecosystem services, Biodiversity conservation, and Commodity production in Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve, and to highlight the possible environmental and economic outcomes according to different management scenario

Pages 01-08
Year 2019
Issue 2
Volume 3

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