Ecosystem services in conservation planning: targeted benefits vs. co-benefits or costs?

ABSTRACT: There is growing support for characterizing ecosystem services in order to link conservation and human well-being. However, few studies have explicitly included ecosystem services within systematic conservation planning, and those that have follow two fundamentally different approaches: ecosystem services as intrinsically-important targeted benefits vs. substitutable co-benefits. We present a first comparison of these two approaches in a case study in the Central Interior of British Columbia. We calculated and mapped economic values for carbon storage, timber production, and recreational angling using a geographical information system (GIS). These 'marginal' values represent the difference in service-provision between conservation and managed forestry as land uses. We compared two approach

SUBMITTER: Chan KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3167855 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature