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Jane Turpie
Other affiliations: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
Bio: Jane Turpie is an academic researcher from University of Cape Town. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem services & Population. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 71 publications receiving 3567 citations. Previous affiliations of Jane Turpie include South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity & Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology.
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TL;DR: A payments for ecosystem services (PES) system came about in South Africa with the establishment of the government-funded Working for Water (WfW) programme that cleared mountain catchments and riparian zones of invasive alien plants to restore natural fire regimes, the productive potential of land, biodiversity, and hydrological functioning as mentioned in this paper.
354 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared different approaches to the selection of marine protected area sites for the conservation of South Africa's coastal fish diversity, and developed a pragmatic approach in which data are refined to include species' core distributions only.
223 citations
TL;DR: The Cape Floristic Region is renowned for its beauty and floral diversity as well as other nature pursuits such as whale watching and angling, but invasion of aliens, transformation of natural vegetation and overexploitation of resources threaten the sustainability of this value.
216 citations
TL;DR: This article investigated the public interest, experience and knowledge of biodiversity and used contingent valuation methods to estimate its existence value, with emphasis on the internationally significant fynbos biome in the Western Cape.
198 citations
University of the Algarve1, University of Lisbon2, IFREMER3, Scottish Natural Heritage4, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research5, University of Aveiro6, EAFIT University7, University of Barcelona8, University of Vic9, University of Tokyo10, University of Cádiz11, United States Environmental Protection Agency12, University of Nantes13, National Autonomous University of Mexico14, American University of Sharjah15, University of Murcia16, University of Cape Town17, ODESSA18, University of Canberra19, University of Adelaide20
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed, quantified and valued the ecosystem services of 32 coastal lagoons and found that the definitions of ecosystem services are still not generally accepted, and the quantification of ecosystem service is made in many different ways, using different units.
180 citations
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TL;DR: The Marine Ecoregions of the World (MEOW) as discussed by the authors is a global system for coastal and shelf areas, which is a nested system of 12 realms, 62 provinces, and 232 ecoregs.
Abstract: The conservation and sustainable use of marine resources is a highlighted goal on a growing number of national and international policy agendas. Unfortunately, efforts to assess progress, as well as to strategically plan and prioritize new marine conservation measures, have been hampered by the lack of a detailed, comprehensive biogeographic system to classify the oceans. Here we report on a new global system for coastal and shelf areas: the Marine Ecoregions of the World, or MEOW, a nested system of 12 realms, 62 provinces, and 232 ecoregions. This system provides considerably better spatial resolution than earlier global systems, yet it preserves many common elements and can be cross-referenced to many regional biogeographic classifications. The designation of terrestrial ecoregions has revolutionized priority setting and planning for terrestrial conservation; we anticipate similar benefits from the use of a coherent and credible marine system.
2,797 citations
TL;DR: Payments for environmental services (PES) have attracted increasing interest as a mechanism to translate external, non-market values of the environment into real financial incentives for local actors to provide environmental services as mentioned in this paper.
2,130 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the history leading up to these publications and the subsequent debates, research, institutions, policies, on-the-ground actions, and controversies they triggered.
Abstract: It has been 20 years since two seminal publications about ecosystem services came out: an edited book by Gretchen Daily and an article in Nature by a group of ecologists and economists on the value of the world’s ecosystem services. Both of these have been very highly cited and kicked off an explosion of research, policy, and applications of the idea, including the establishment of this journal. This article traces the history leading up to these publications and the subsequent debates, research, institutions, policies, on-the-ground actions, and controversies they triggered. It also explores what we have learned during this period about the key issues: from definitions to classification to valuation, from integrated modelling to public participation and communication, and the evolution of institutions and governance innovation. Finally, it provides recommendations for the future. In particular, it points to the weakness of the mainstream economic approaches to valuation, growth, and development. It concludes that the substantial contributions of ecosystem services to the sustainable wellbeing of humans and the rest of nature should be at the core of the fundamental change needed in economic theory and practice if we are to achieve a societal transformation to a sustainable and desirable future.
1,514 citations