Ecosystem services flows: Why stakeholders' power relationships matter
Entidad
UAM. Departamento de EcologíaEditor
Felipe-Lucia et al.Fecha de edición
2015-07-22Cita
10.1371/journal.pone.0132232
PLoS ONE 10.7 (2015): e0132232
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1932-6203 (print)DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0132232Financiado por
MFL was awarded a grant by the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council, www.csic.es) under the JAE‐predoc program (JAE-Pre-2010-044), co-financed by the European Social Fund (http://ec.europa.eu/esf/home.jsp). This work contributes to the OPERAs FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage-308393 and OpenNESS FP7-EC-308428 European Union’s Seventh Program projects. The authors declare that no competing interests exist and that the funding sources had any involvement in study design, in data collection, analyses, and interpretation, and in the decision to submit the articleProyecto
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/308393; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/308428Versión del editor
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132232Materias
Biological pest control; Conceptual framework; Ecosystem; Ecosystem monitoring; Environmental management; Floodplain; Food industry; Habitat quality; Human; Land use; Semi structured interview; Spain; Water quality; Water supply; Wellbeing; Biología y Biomedicina / BiologíaDerechos
© 2015 Felipe-Lucia et al.Resumen
The ecosystem services framework has enabled the broader public to acknowledge the benefits nature provides to different stakeholders. However, not all stakeholders benefit equally from these services. Rather, power relationships are a key factor influencing the access of individuals or groups to ecosystem services. In this paper, we propose an adaptation of the "cascade" framework for ecosystem services to integrate the analysis of ecological interactions among ecosystem services and stakeholders' interactions, reflecting power relationships that mediate ecosystem services flows. We illustrate its application using the floodplain of the River Piedra (Spain) as a case study. First, we used structural equation modelling (SEM) to model the dependence relationships among ecosystem services. Second, we performed semi-structured interviews to identify formal power relationships among stakeholders. Third, we depicted ecosystem services according to stakeholders' ability to use, manage or impair ecosystem services in order to expose how power relationships mediate access to ecosystem services. Our results revealed that the strongest power was held by those stakeholders who managed (although did not use) those keystone ecosystem properties and services that determine the provision of other services (i.e., intermediate regulating and final services). In contrast, non-empowered stakeholders were only able to access the remaining non-excludable and non-rival ecosystem services (i.e., some of the cultural services, freshwater supply, water quality, and biological control). In addition, land stewardship, access rights, and governance appeared as critical factors determining the status of ecosystem services. Finally, we stress the need to analyse the role of stakeholders and their relationships to foster equal access to ecosystem services
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Google Scholar:Felipe-Lucia, María R.
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Martín-López, Berta
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Lavorel, Sandra
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Berraquero-Díaz, Luis
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Escalera-Reyes, Javier
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Comín, Francisco A.
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