Hernández-Blanco, Marcello;
Costanza, Robert;
Chen, Haojie;
DeGroot, Dolf;
Jarvis, Diane;
Kubiszewski, Ida;
Montoya, Javier;
... Van 't Hoff, Vince; + view all
(2022)
Ecosystem health, ecosystem services, and the well-being of humans and the rest of nature.
Global Change Biology
, 28
(17)
pp. 5027-5040.
10.1111/gcb.16281.
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Abstract
An ecosystem is healthy if it is active, maintains its organization and autonomy over time, and is resilient to stress. Healthy ecosystems provide human well-being via ecosystem services, which are produced in interaction with human, social and built capital. These services are affected by different ecosystem stewardship schemes. Therefore, society should be aiming for ecosystem health stewardship at all levels to maintain and improve ecosystem services. We review the relationship between ecosystem health and ecosystem services, based on a logic chain framework starting with (1) a development or conservation policy, (2) a management decision or origin of the driver of change, (3) the driver of change itself, (4) the change in ecosystem health and (5) the change in the provision of ecosystem services and (6) the change in their value to humans. We review two case studies to demonstrate the application of this framework. We analysed 6,131 records from the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD) and found that in approximately 58% of the records data on ecosystem health was lacking. Finally, we describe how the United Nations' System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) incorporates ecosystem health as part of efforts to account for natural capital appreciation or depreciation at the national level. We also provide recommendations for improving this system.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ecosystem health, ecosystem services, and the well-being of humans and the rest of nature |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/gcb.16281 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16281 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | economic value, ecosystem health, ecosystem services, ecosystem stewardship, natural capital, natural capital health, well-being |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149933 |
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