Co-producing ecosystem services for adapting to climate change
| dc.creator | Lavorel, S. | |
| dc.creator | Locatelli, Bruno | |
| dc.creator | Colloff, Matthew J. | |
| dc.creator | Bruley, E. | |
| dc.date | 2020-03-16 | |
| dc.date | 2021-03-08T08:19:48Z | |
| dc.date | 2021-03-08T08:19:48Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T14:01:53Z | |
| dc.description | Ecosystems can sustain social adaptation to environmental change by protecting people from climate change effects and providing options for sustaining material and non-material benefits as ecological structure and functions transform. Along adaptation pathways, people navigate the trade-offs between different ecosystem contributions to adaptation, or adaptation services (AS), and can enhance their synergies and co-benefits as environmental change unfolds. Understanding trade-offs and co-benefits of AS is therefore essential to support social adaptation and requires analysing how people co-produce AS. We analysed co-production along the three steps of the ecosystem cascade: (i) ecosystem management; (ii) mobilization; and (iii) appropriation, social access and appreciation. Using five exemplary case studies across socio-ecosystems and continents, we show how five broad mechanisms already active for current ecosystem services can enhance co-benefits and minimize trade-offs between AS: (1) traditional and multi-functional land/sea management targeting ecological resilience; (2) pro-active management for ecosystem transformation; (3) co-production of novel services in landscapes without compromising other services; (4) collective governance of all co-production steps; and (5) feedbacks from appropriation, appreciation of and social access to main AS. We conclude that knowledge and recognition of co-production mechanisms will enable pro-active management and governance for collective adaptation to ecosystem transformation.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions’. | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/112157 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/71721 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Royal Society | |
| dc.rights | Open Access | |
| dc.source | Lavorel, S., Locatelli, B., Colloff, M.J., Bruley, E. 2020. Co-producing ecosystem services for adapting to climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B., 375 (1794) : 201990119. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0119 | |
| dc.subject | climate change | |
| dc.subject | ecosystem services | |
| dc.title | Co-producing ecosystem services for adapting to climate change | |
| dc.type | Journal Article |