An Exploration of Human Well-Being Bundles as Identifiers of Ecosystem Service Use Patterns.

ABSTRACT: We take a social-ecological systems perspective to investigate the linkages between ecosystem services and human well-being in South Africa. A recent paper identified different types of social-ecological systems in the country, based on distinct bundles of ecosystem service use. These system types were found to represent increasingly weak direct feedbacks between nature and people, from rural "green-loop" communities to urban "red-loop" societies. Here we construct human well-being bundles and explore whether the well-being bundles can be used to identify the same social-ecological system types that were identified using bundles of ecosystem service use. Based on national census data, we found three distinct well-being bundle types that are mainly characterized by differences in income, un

SUBMITTER: Hamann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5047452 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature