Examining equity: a multidimensional framework for assessing equity in payments for ecosystem services
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In this paper, the authors present a systematic framework for the analysis of equity that can be used to examine how local equity is affected as the global value of ecosystem services changes, and how these dimensions are shaped by the scale and target group of concern, the framing of goals with respect to equity and how the decisions about the content, target and aims of equity are taken.About:
This article is published in Environmental Science & Policy.The article was published on 2013-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 418 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Equity capital markets & Equity risk.read more
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Social Equity Matters in Payments for Ecosystem Services
Unai Pascual,Jacob Phelps,Eneko Garmendia,Katrina Brown,Esteve Corbera,Adrian Martin,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Roldan Muradian +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown how the equity impacts of PES can create positive and negative feedbacks that influence ecological outcomes, and cautioned against equity-blind PES, which overlooks these relationships as a result of a primary and narrow focus on economic efficiency.
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Cause and response: vulnerability and climate in the Anthropocene
TL;DR: The root cause analysis of vulnerability is absent from most climate response assessments as mentioned in this paper, while attributing some causal weight to proximate social variables, such as poverty or lack of capacity.
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A methodology for adaptable and robust ecosystem services assessment
Ferdinando Villa,Kenneth J. Bagstad,Brian Voigt,Gary W. Johnson,Rosimeiry Portela,Miroslav Honzák,David Batker +6 more
TL;DR: An integrated ES modeling methodology, named ARIES (ARtificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services), which adopts a uniform conceptualization of ES that gives equal emphasis to their production, flow and use by society, while keeping model complexity low enough to enable rapid and inexpensive assessment in many contexts and for multiple services.
Protected Planet Report 2014
Diego Juffe-Bignoli,Neil D. Burgess,Heather Bingham,Elise M. S. Belle,M.G. de Lima,Marine Deguignet,Bastian Bertzky,Amy Milam,Javier Martínez-López,Edward Lewis,April Eassom,Sylvia Wicander,Jonas Geldmann,A. van Soesbergen,Andy Arnell,Brian O'Connor,Sun Hwa Park,Y.N. Shi,Fiona Danks,Brian MacSharry,Naomi Kingston +20 more
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Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective
Joern Fischer,Toby A. Gardner,Elena M. Bennett,Patricia Balvanera,Reinette Biggs,Reinette Biggs,Stephen R. Carpenter,Tim M. Daw,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Rosemary Hill,Terry P. Hughes,Tobias Luthe,Manuel Maass,Megan Meacham,Albert V. Norström,Garry D. Peterson,Cibele Queiroz,Ralf Seppelt,Marja Spierenburg,John Tenhunen +20 more
TL;DR: The concept of social-ecological systems is useful for understanding the interlinked dynamics of environmental and societal change as discussed by the authors, which has helped facilitate increased recognition of the dependence of humanity on ecosystems; improved collaboration across disciplines, and between science and society; increased methodological pluralism leading to improved systems understanding; and major policy frameworks considering socialecological interactions.
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