The social production of ecosystem services: lessons from urban resilience research

  • Ernstson H
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Abstract

Recent findings have demonstrated urban nature as a source of ecosystem services benefitting human well being. Importantly, however, urban nature is heavily marked by society, which moderates and decides to a large extent not just the generation of ecosystem services but also who in society that gets to benefit from them, i.e. the distribution of ecosystem services. The article argues that research on urban ecosystem services must develop a deeper understanding of the social factors at play in this social production of ecosystem services, without loosing sensitivity for ecological scales and complexity. A framework for how to analyze urban social-ecological systems from both a functional management perspective and a social equity perspective is presented built on two interlinked modes of analysis: spatial socialecological networks and value creation processes. The framework is discussed with empirical data from urban research in Stockholm, Sweden, and Cape Town, South Africa.

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Ernstson, H. (2008). The social production of ecosystem services: lessons from urban resilience research. Ecological Research, (September), 155–186. Retrieved from http://www.steps-center.org/PDFs/Ernstson_2008_ms_SocProd_of_ES_67_THISTHIS.pdf

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