Telecoupling mediates ecosystem services bundles through social interrelationships

Felipe Lucia Maria, Martín-López Berta, Bennett Elena M., Fischer Joern, Garcia-Lorente Marina, Hicks Christina, Lavorel Sandra, Locatelli Bruno, Noström Albert V., Peterson Garry, Plieninger Tobias. 2016. Telecoupling mediates ecosystem services bundles through social interrelationships. In : Book of abstracts, session S4 (Ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: patterns across case-studies). Ecosystem Services Partnerships, OPERAs, OpenNESS, ECOPLAN, Unversity of Antwerp. Anvers : Ecosystem Services Partnership, p. 7. European Ecosystem Services 2016 Conference, Anvers, Belgique, 19 Septembre 2016/23 Septembre 2016.

Résumé : Ecosystem services research and management need to incorporate complex social-ecological interconnections across scales to address sustainability challenges. Such cross-scale interactions can be analysed through a telecoupling framework as it connects human and natural coupled systems through flows over long distances. Here, the telecoupling framework allows us to uncover the winners and losers regarding access to ecosystem services, the power differences regarding ecosystem services management among social actors and the scale at which power is concentrated. Our results suggest that the spatial mismatch between the dependence on ecosystem services (local level) and decision making (supra-local level) can foster both environmental degradation and inequity to distant communities. We conclude that providing a more equal access to ecosystem services and sharing the power in decision making at local scale across social actors can counteract the negative impact on sustainability of such mismatch.

Classification Agris : P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
E14 - Économie et politique du développement

Auteurs et affiliations

• Felipe Lucia Maria, University of Bern (CHE)
• Martín-López Berta
• Bennett Elena M.
• Fischer Joern
• Garcia-Lorente Marina
• Hicks Christina
• Lavorel Sandra
• Locatelli Bruno, CIRAD-ES-UPR BSef (PER) ORCID: 0000-0003-2983-1644
• Noström Albert V.
• Peterson Garry
• Plieninger Tobias

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/581827/)

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