Review: Associations among goods, impacts and ecosystem services provided by livestock farming.

ABSTRACT: Livestock is a major driver in most rural landscapes and economics, but it also polarises debate over its environmental impacts, animal welfare and human health. Conversely, the various services that livestock farming systems provide to society are often overlooked and have rarely been quantified. The aim of analysing bundles of services is to chart the coexistence and interactions between the various services and impacts provided by livestock farming, and to identify sets of ecosystem services (ES) that appear together repeatedly across sites and through time. We review three types of approaches that analyse associations among impacts and services from local to global scales: (i) detecting ES associations at system or landscape scale, (ii) identifying and mapping bundles of ES and impacts

SUBMITTER: Dumont B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6639720 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature