TY - CHAP
T1 - 10 years later
T2 - Revisiting priorities for science and society a decade after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
AU - Mulder, Christian
AU - Bennett, Elena M.
AU - Bohan, David A.
AU - Bonkowski, Michael
AU - Carpenter, Stephen R.
AU - Chalmers, Rachel
AU - Cramer, Wolfgang
AU - Durance, Isabelle
AU - Eisenhauer, Nico
AU - Fontaine, Colin
AU - Haughton, Alison J.
AU - Hettelingh, Jean Paul
AU - Hines, Jes
AU - Ibanez, Sébastien
AU - Jeppesen, Erik
AU - Krumins, Jennifer Adams
AU - Ma, Athen
AU - Mancinelli, Giorgio
AU - Massol, François
AU - McLaughlin, Órla
AU - Naeem, Shahid
AU - Pascual, Unai
AU - Peñuelas, Josep
AU - Pettorelli, Nathalie
AU - Pocock, Michael J.O.
AU - Raffaelli, Dave
AU - Rasmussen, Jes J.
AU - Rusch, Graciela M.
AU - Scherber, Christoph
AU - Setälä, Heikki
AU - Sutherland, William J.
AU - Vacher, Corinne
AU - Voigt, Winfried
AU - Vonk, J. Arie
AU - Wood, Stephen A.
AU - Woodward, Guy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The study of ecological services (ESs) is fast becoming a cornerstone of mainstream ecology, largely because they provide a useful means of linking functioning to societal benefits in complex systems by connecting different organizational levels. In order to identify the main challenges facing current and future ES research, we analyzed the effects of the publication of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA, 2005) on different disciplines. Within a set of topics framed around concepts embedded within the MEA, each co-author identified five key research challenges and, where feasible, suggested possible solutions. Concepts included those related to specific service types (i.e. provisioning, supporting, regulating, cultural, aesthetic services) as well as more synthetic issues spanning the natural and social sciences, which often linked a wide range of disciplines, as was the case for the application of network theory. By merging similar responses, and removing some of the narrower suggestions from our sample pool, we distilled the key challenges into a smaller subset. We review some of the historical context to the MEA and identify some of the broader scientific and philosophical issues that still permeate discourse in this field. Finally, we consider where the greatest advances are most likely to be made in the next decade and beyond.
AB - The study of ecological services (ESs) is fast becoming a cornerstone of mainstream ecology, largely because they provide a useful means of linking functioning to societal benefits in complex systems by connecting different organizational levels. In order to identify the main challenges facing current and future ES research, we analyzed the effects of the publication of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA, 2005) on different disciplines. Within a set of topics framed around concepts embedded within the MEA, each co-author identified five key research challenges and, where feasible, suggested possible solutions. Concepts included those related to specific service types (i.e. provisioning, supporting, regulating, cultural, aesthetic services) as well as more synthetic issues spanning the natural and social sciences, which often linked a wide range of disciplines, as was the case for the application of network theory. By merging similar responses, and removing some of the narrower suggestions from our sample pool, we distilled the key challenges into a smaller subset. We review some of the historical context to the MEA and identify some of the broader scientific and philosophical issues that still permeate discourse in this field. Finally, we consider where the greatest advances are most likely to be made in the next decade and beyond.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84959234712&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.005
DO - 10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.005
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84959234712
SN - 9780128038857
T3 - Advances in Ecological Research
SP - 1
EP - 53
BT - Advances in Ecological Research
A2 - Bohan, David A.
A2 - Woodward, Guy
PB - Academic Press Inc.
ER -