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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 627 - 635 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Environmental management |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 5 Apr 2022 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2022 |
Abstract
Keywords
- Adaptive water management, Blue and green infrastructure, Ecosystem based adaptation, IWRM, Nature-based solutions, Water security
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Environmental Science(all)
- Pollution
- Environmental Science(all)
- Global and Planetary Change
- Environmental Science(all)
- Ecology
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In: Environmental management, Vol. 69, No. 4, 04.2022, p. 627 - 635.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Water Resources Management—Tools, Policies, Promising Pathways
AU - Vollmer, Derek
AU - Burkhard, Kremena
AU - Adem Esmail, Blal
AU - Guerrero, Paulina
AU - Nagabhatla, Nidhi
N1 - Funding Information: We would like to thank the Ecosystem Services Partnership for encouraging the formation of this Sectoral Working Group on Ecosystem Services in Water Management. KB is grateful for the funding support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under grant no. 01LA1814A (project RUINS) and grant. no. 02WGR1423D (project ViWA), the Lower Saxony Ministry of Research and Culture (FKZ: 76251-17-5/19) and the Volkswagen Foundation (project Gute Küste Niedersachsen). PG is grateful for the funding support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the Junior Research Group PlanSmart (funding code: 01UU1601A). NN acknowledges the Flemish Government (Kingdom of Belgium) and the working partner of UNU CRIS – the Ghent University and the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels. DV would like to thank the Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, and the Pisces Foundation, for funding support.
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - Ecosystems provide a range of services, including water purification, erosion prevention, and flood risk mitigation, that are important to water resource managers. But as a sector, water resources management has been slow to incorporate ecosystem protection and restoration, for a variety of reasons, although related concepts such as nature-based solutions and green infrastructure are gaining traction. We explain some of the existing challenges to wider uptake of the ecosystem services concept in water resources management and introduce some promising avenues for research and practice, elaborated in more detail through 12 papers, spanning five continents and a variety of contexts, which make up a Special Issue on “Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Water Resources Management”. Cross-cutting themes include (A) ecosystem services as a flexible concept to communicate with stakeholders; (B) participatory processes to involve stakeholders in research; (C) multiple values, and valuation methods, of water-related services; and (D) applications of decision-support tools. We conclude with a summary of research gaps and emphasize the importance of co-producing knowledge with decision makers and other stakeholders, in order to improve water resources management through the integration of ecosystem services.
AB - Ecosystems provide a range of services, including water purification, erosion prevention, and flood risk mitigation, that are important to water resource managers. But as a sector, water resources management has been slow to incorporate ecosystem protection and restoration, for a variety of reasons, although related concepts such as nature-based solutions and green infrastructure are gaining traction. We explain some of the existing challenges to wider uptake of the ecosystem services concept in water resources management and introduce some promising avenues for research and practice, elaborated in more detail through 12 papers, spanning five continents and a variety of contexts, which make up a Special Issue on “Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Water Resources Management”. Cross-cutting themes include (A) ecosystem services as a flexible concept to communicate with stakeholders; (B) participatory processes to involve stakeholders in research; (C) multiple values, and valuation methods, of water-related services; and (D) applications of decision-support tools. We conclude with a summary of research gaps and emphasize the importance of co-producing knowledge with decision makers and other stakeholders, in order to improve water resources management through the integration of ecosystem services.
KW - Adaptive water management
KW - Blue and green infrastructure
KW - Ecosystem based adaptation
KW - IWRM
KW - Nature-based solutions
KW - Water security
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U2 - 10.1007/s00267-022-01640-9
DO - 10.1007/s00267-022-01640-9
M3 - Article
VL - 69
SP - 627
EP - 635
JO - Environmental management
JF - Environmental management
SN - 1432-1009
IS - 4
ER -