- Abstract:
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The concept of Ecosystem Services (ES), widely understood as the "benefits that humans receive from the natural functioning of healthy ecosystems" (. Jeffers et al., 2015), depicts a one-way flow of services from ecosystems to people. We argue that this conceptualisation is overly simplistic and largely inaccurate, neglecting the reality that humans often contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of ecosystems, as often evidenced (but not exclusively) in many traditional and Indigenous so...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's version
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Global Environmental Change Journal website
- Volume:
- 34
- Pages:
- 247-262
- Publication date:
- 2015-09-05
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0959-3780
- URN:
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uuid:1b0fb2ee-2ab3-44da-827f-ac2f6d1efa01
- Source identifiers:
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541436
- Local pid:
- pubs:541436
- Copyright holder:
- Comberti et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
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Copyright © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ecosystem services or services to ecosystems? Valuing cultivation and reciprocal relationships between humans and ecosystems
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