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Laura Nahuelhual - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Agriculturisation and trade-offs between Commodity Production and cultural ecosystem services: A case study in Balcarce County
Journal of Rural Studies, 2017Co-Authors: A. Auer, Nestor Oscar Maceira, Laura NahuelhualAbstract:Increased Production of commodities in Latin America has transformed the rural landscape with a potential loss of cultural ecosystem services (CES). The aim of our study was to assess the extent and mechanisms by which the agriculturisation process in Balcarce County in the Pampas region of Argentina has affected the supply of CES of the rural landscape and consequently, the well-being of local inhabitants. Data were obtained through exploratory interviews with selected inhabitants of Balcarce County (Argentina). We focused on people's perceptions regarding landscape changes in the last two decades and the rural landscape aspects that provide identity, sense of place and cultural heritage. Interviews were qualitatively analyzed through content analysis. Results showed that twenty years ago the landscape sustained food provision along with CES. Agriculturisation has implied an undeniable increase of Commodity Production (i.e. soybean) and economic benefits at the expense of a significant loss of natural environments and changes in the rural livelihoods that sustain CES. The sierras (low mountains) emerge as the last remnants of natural environments sustaining identity, sense of place and cultural heritage.
Adrian D. Manning - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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biodiversity ecosystem function and resilience ten guiding principles for Commodity Production landscapes
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2006Co-Authors: Joern Fischer, David B Lindenmayer, Adrian D. ManningAbstract:Biodiversity conservation in forestry and agricultural landscapes is important because (1) reserves alone will not protect biodiversity; (2) Commodity Production relies on vital services provided by biodiversity; and (3) biodiversity enhances resilience, or a system's capacity to recover from external pressures such as droughts or management mistakes. We suggest ten guiding principles to help maintain biodiversity, ecosystem function, and resilience in Production landscapes. Landscapes should include structurally characteristic patches of native vegetation, corridors and stepping stones between them, a structurally complex matrix, and buffers around sensitive areas. Management should maintain a diversity of species within and across functional groups. Highly focused management actions may be required to maintain keystone species and threatened species, and to control invasive species. These guiding principles provide a scientifically defensible starting point for the integration of conservation and Production, which is urgently required from both an ecological and a long-term economic perspective.
Peter Kareiva - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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modeling multiple ecosystem services biodiversity conservation Commodity Production and tradeoffs at landscape scales
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2009Co-Authors: Erik J Nelson, James Regetz, Heather Tallis, Drichard Cameron, Kai M A Chan, Joshua Goldstein, Gretchen C. Daily, Guillermo Mendoza, Stephen Polasky, Peter KareivaAbstract:Nature provides a wide range of benefits to people. There is increasing consensus about the importance of incorporating these “ecosystem services” into resource management decisions, but quantifying the levels and values of these services has proven difficult. We use a spatially explicit modeling tool, Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), to predict changes in ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, and Commodity Production levels. We apply InVEST to stakeholder-defined scenarios of land-use/land-cover change in the Willamette Basin, Oregon. We found that scenarios that received high scores for a variety of ecosystem services also had high scores for biodiversity, suggesting there is little tradeoff between biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. Scenarios involving more development had higher Commodity Production values, but lower levels of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. However, including payments for carbon sequestration alleviates this tradeoff. Quantifying ecosystem services in a spatially explicit manner, and analyzing tradeoffs between them, can help to make natural resource decisions more effective, efficient, and defensible.
Brian Marks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the political economy of household Commodity Production in the louisiana shrimp fishery
Journal of Agrarian Change, 2012Co-Authors: Brian MarksAbstract:The Louisiana shrimp fishery is marked by the ownership and operation of vessels by familial households, an open-access management regime, and socially embedded inter-firm relationships among shrimpers, docks and processors. These elements of the contemporary fishery were constituted through historically and geographically specific processes of change in harvesting and processing technology, the social organization of labour processes and market exchanges, and the politics of fishery management in the state. These processes shaped producers' responses to a severe socio-economic crisis in the 2000s, a cost–price squeeze of collapsing shrimp prices and mounting Production expenses. Shrimpers' households kept boats operating in the short term at the expense of living standards and intergenerational continuity, rising fuel prices and falling shrimp prices slashed shrimpers' income from harvesting wild shrimp, and business relations grew more distant, tenuous and conflictual as enterprises each sought their share of a much smaller surplus.
A. Auer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Agriculturisation and trade-offs between Commodity Production and cultural ecosystem services: A case study in Balcarce County
Journal of Rural Studies, 2017Co-Authors: A. Auer, Nestor Oscar Maceira, Laura NahuelhualAbstract:Increased Production of commodities in Latin America has transformed the rural landscape with a potential loss of cultural ecosystem services (CES). The aim of our study was to assess the extent and mechanisms by which the agriculturisation process in Balcarce County in the Pampas region of Argentina has affected the supply of CES of the rural landscape and consequently, the well-being of local inhabitants. Data were obtained through exploratory interviews with selected inhabitants of Balcarce County (Argentina). We focused on people's perceptions regarding landscape changes in the last two decades and the rural landscape aspects that provide identity, sense of place and cultural heritage. Interviews were qualitatively analyzed through content analysis. Results showed that twenty years ago the landscape sustained food provision along with CES. Agriculturisation has implied an undeniable increase of Commodity Production (i.e. soybean) and economic benefits at the expense of a significant loss of natural environments and changes in the rural livelihoods that sustain CES. The sierras (low mountains) emerge as the last remnants of natural environments sustaining identity, sense of place and cultural heritage.
