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DOI 10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.07.012
Licence creative commons licence
Title (Primary) Identifying governance challenges in ecosystem services management – Conceptual considerations and comparison of global forest cases
Author Falk, T.; Spangenberg, J.H.; Siegmund-Schultze, M.; Kobbe, S.; Feike, T.; Kuebler, D.; Settele, J.; Vorlaufer, T.
Source Titel Ecosystem Services
Year 2018
Department BZF; iDiv
Volume 32
Issue Part B
Page From 193
Page To 203
Language englisch
Keywords Social-ecological systems; Action situations; Institutional fit; Forest ecosystems; Case comparison; Online diagnostic tool
Abstract

Ecosystems around the world generate a wide range of services. Often, there are trade-offs in ecosystem service provision. Managing such trade-offs requires governance of interdependent action situations. We distinguished between (1) enhancing action situations where beneficiaries create, maintain, or improve an ESS and (2) appropriation action situations where actors subtract from a flow of ESS. We classified ESSs in order to identify focal action situations and link them to ESS governance types which are likely to strengthen sustainable ecosystem management. The classification is applied to six forest cases in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Our results confirm that ecosystem management, which more strongly supports the provision of public goods and common pool resources, is often under strong pressure to be transformed into systems that mainly provide private goods. This can be partly explained by incentive constellations in the action situations of public goods and common pool resources. Therefore, governance has to be adapted to specific ESSs. ESS governance needs to identify institutions which best fit to different ESSs and to harmonize them for all the ESSs provided by the system. Our approach helps to understand why institutions fail or succeed in maintaining ESSs.

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Falk, T., Spangenberg, J.H., Siegmund-Schultze, M., Kobbe, S., Feike, T., Kuebler, D., Settele, J., Vorlaufer, T. (2018):
Identifying governance challenges in ecosystem services management – Conceptual considerations and comparison of global forest cases
Ecosyst. Serv. 32 (Part B), 193 - 203 10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.07.012