- Title
- Management to insulate ecosystem services from the effects of catchment development
- Creator
- Gell, Peter
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Conference proceedings
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164640
- Identifier
- vital:13094
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20183108001
- Identifier
- ISBN:2267-1242
- Abstract
- Natural ecosystems provide amenity to human populations in the form of ecosystem services. These services are grouped into four broad categories: Provisioning-food and water production; regulating-control of climate and disease; supporting-crop pollination; and cultural-spiritual and recreational benefits. Aquatic systems provide considerable service through the provision of potable water, fisheries and aquaculture production, nutrient mitigation and the psychological benefits that accrue from the aesthetic amenity provided from lakes, rivers and other wetlands. Further, littoral and riparian ecosystems, and aquifers, protect human communities from sea level encroachment, and tidal and river flooding. Catchment and water development provides critical resources for human consumption. Where these provisioning services are prioritized over others, the level and quality of production may be impacted. Further, the benefits from these provisioning services comes with the opportunity cost of diminishing regulating, supporting and cultural services. This imbalance flags concerns for humanity as it exceeds recognised safe operating spaces. These concepts are explored by reference to long term records of change in some of the world's largest river catchments and lessons are drawn that may enable other communities to consider the balance of ecosystems services in natural resource management.
- Publisher
- EDP Sciences
- Relation
- 2nd International Conference on Energy, Environmental and Information System, ICENIS 2017; Semarang, Indonesia; 15th-16th August 2017; published in E3S Web of Conferences Vol. 31, p. 1-6
- Rights
- Copyright © 2018 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Aquaculture; Aquifers; Catchments; Hydrogeology; Natural resources management; Critical resources; Ecosystem services; Natural ecosystem; Natural resource management; Riparian ecosystem; Water development
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