Linking future ecosystem services and future human well-being Butler, Colin and Olouch-Kosura, Willis 2006, Linking future ecosystem services and future human well-being, Ecology and society, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-16. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Linking future ecosystem services and future human well-being Author(s) Butler, Colin Olouch-Kosura, Willis Journal name Ecology and society Volume number 11 Issue number 1 Start page 1 End page 16 Publisher Resilience Alliance Place of publication Ottawa, Ont. Publication date 2006 ISSN 1708-3087 Keyword(s) cognitive potential conflict ecosystems health human well-being hunger nutrition scenarios surprise Summary Ecosystem services are necessary, yet not sufficient for human well-being (however defined). Insufficient access to the ecosystem provisioning service of food is a particularly important factor in the loss of human well-being, but all ecosystem services contribute in some way to well-being. Although perhaps long obvious to ecologists, the links between ecosystems and aspects of human well-being, including health, have been less well understood among the social science community. This situation may now be starting to change, thanks in part to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA). Causality between ecosystem services and well-being is bidirectional; it is increasingly clear that functioning societies can protect or enhance ecosystem services, and accordingly, that societies with impaired well-being (best documented in the case of chronic diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS) can also experience a related decline in ecosystem services. The future state of human well-being and of ecosystem services is more than the co-evolution of these two fundamental elements. Human well-being also depends, critically, upon the human institutions that govern relationships between human individuals and groups, and also between humans and ecosystem services. The scenarios working group of the MA found that human well-being is highest in the Global Orchestration scenario, which assumes the fastest evolution of beneficial institutions, and is lowest in the Order from Strength scenario. Human well-being was found to be intermediate in the other two scenarios (Adapting Mosaic and Techno-Garden) even though these scenarios share a much greater recognition of the importance of ecosystem services to human well-being. Language eng Field of Research 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 920499 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2006, the authors Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30004243 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Health and Social Development Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 12 Dec 2008, 08:30:36 EST Fri, 09 Apr 2010, 15:06:41 EST Fri, 05 Aug 2011, 15:59:24 EST Fri, 03 Feb 2012, 08:24:23 EST Mon, 06 Feb 2012, 07:39:21 EST Mon, 06 Feb 2012, 07:40:20 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 87 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 631 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 09:15:59 EST

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