Research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.

The economic valuation of ecosystem services in part reflects the desire to use conventional economic tools (markets and economic instruments) to conserve ecosystem services. However, for regulating and supporting ecosystem services that depend on ecosystem structure and function, estimation of econ...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Andrew N Kadykalo, Lisa A Kelly, Albana Berberi, Jessica L Reid, C Scott Findlay
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/99ffb861e24d4738b17595a69f16627e
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:99ffb861e24d4738b17595a69f16627e
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:99ffb861e24d4738b17595a69f16627e2021-12-02T20:11:12ZResearch effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0252463https://doaj.org/article/99ffb861e24d4738b17595a69f16627e2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252463https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The economic valuation of ecosystem services in part reflects the desire to use conventional economic tools (markets and economic instruments) to conserve ecosystem services. However, for regulating and supporting ecosystem services that depend on ecosystem structure and function, estimation of economic value requires estimates of the current level of underlying ecological functions first. This primary step is in principle, the job of environmental scientists, not economists. Here, we provide a coarse-level quantitative assessment of the relationship between the research effort expended by environmental scientists (on the biophysical values) and economists (on the monetary values) on 15 different regulating and supporting services in 32 ecosystem types using peer-reviewed article hits retrieved from bibliographic databases as a measure of research effort. We find a positive, moderately strong (r = 0.69) correlation between research efforts in the two domains, a result that, while encouraging, is likely to reflect serendipity rather than the deliberate design of integrated environmental science-economics research programs. Our results suggest that compared to environmental science research effort economic valuation is devoted to a smaller, less diverse set of ecosystem services but a broader, more diverse, set of ecosystem types. The two domains differed more with respect to the ecosystem services that are the major focus of research effort than they did with respect to the ecosystem types of principal research interest. For example, carbon sequestration, erosion regulation, and nutrient cycling receive more relative research effort in the environmental sciences; air quality regulation in economic valuations. For both domains, cultivated areas, wetlands, and urban/semi-urban ecosystem types received relatively large research effort, while arctic and mountain tundra, cave and subterranean, cryosphere, intertidal/littoral zone, and kelp forest ecosystem types received negligible research effort. We suggest ways and means by which the field of sustainability science may be improved by the design and implementation of a searchable database of environmental science and economic valuation literature as well as a global ecosystem service research network and repository that explicitly links research on the estimation and prediction of biophysical ecosystem functions with that of the social sciences and other knowledge systems. These suggestions would, at least in principle, facilitate a more efficient research agenda between economists and environmental scientists and aid management, regulatory and judicial decision-makers.Andrew N KadykaloLisa A KellyAlbana BerberiJessica L ReidC Scott FindlayPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0252463 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Medicine R Science Q
spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Andrew N Kadykalo Lisa A Kelly Albana Berberi Jessica L Reid C Scott Findlay Research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.
description	The economic valuation of ecosystem services in part reflects the desire to use conventional economic tools (markets and economic instruments) to conserve ecosystem services. However, for regulating and supporting ecosystem services that depend on ecosystem structure and function, estimation of economic value requires estimates of the current level of underlying ecological functions first. This primary step is in principle, the job of environmental scientists, not economists. Here, we provide a coarse-level quantitative assessment of the relationship between the research effort expended by environmental scientists (on the biophysical values) and economists (on the monetary values) on 15 different regulating and supporting services in 32 ecosystem types using peer-reviewed article hits retrieved from bibliographic databases as a measure of research effort. We find a positive, moderately strong (r = 0.69) correlation between research efforts in the two domains, a result that, while encouraging, is likely to reflect serendipity rather than the deliberate design of integrated environmental science-economics research programs. Our results suggest that compared to environmental science research effort economic valuation is devoted to a smaller, less diverse set of ecosystem services but a broader, more diverse, set of ecosystem types. The two domains differed more with respect to the ecosystem services that are the major focus of research effort than they did with respect to the ecosystem types of principal research interest. For example, carbon sequestration, erosion regulation, and nutrient cycling receive more relative research effort in the environmental sciences; air quality regulation in economic valuations. For both domains, cultivated areas, wetlands, and urban/semi-urban ecosystem types received relatively large research effort, while arctic and mountain tundra, cave and subterranean, cryosphere, intertidal/littoral zone, and kelp forest ecosystem types received negligible research effort. We suggest ways and means by which the field of sustainability science may be improved by the design and implementation of a searchable database of environmental science and economic valuation literature as well as a global ecosystem service research network and repository that explicitly links research on the estimation and prediction of biophysical ecosystem functions with that of the social sciences and other knowledge systems. These suggestions would, at least in principle, facilitate a more efficient research agenda between economists and environmental scientists and aid management, regulatory and judicial decision-makers.
format	article
author	Andrew N Kadykalo Lisa A Kelly Albana Berberi Jessica L Reid C Scott Findlay
author_facet	Andrew N Kadykalo Lisa A Kelly Albana Berberi Jessica L Reid C Scott Findlay
author_sort	Andrew N Kadykalo
title	Research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.
title_short	Research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.
title_full	Research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.
title_fullStr	Research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.
title_full_unstemmed	Research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.
title_sort	research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/99ffb861e24d4738b17595a69f16627e
work_keys_str_mv	AT andrewnkadykalo researcheffortdevotedtoregulatingandsupportingecosystemservicesbyenvironmentalscientistsandeconomists AT lisaakelly researcheffortdevotedtoregulatingandsupportingecosystemservicesbyenvironmentalscientistsandeconomists AT albanaberberi researcheffortdevotedtoregulatingandsupportingecosystemservicesbyenvironmentalscientistsandeconomists AT jessicalreid researcheffortdevotedtoregulatingandsupportingecosystemservicesbyenvironmentalscientistsandeconomists AT cscottfindlay researcheffortdevotedtoregulatingandsupportingecosystemservicesbyenvironmentalscientistsandeconomists
_version_	1718374961898323968

Research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.

Ejemplares similares