Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature's thermodynamic costs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13520%2F22%3A43897054" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13520/22:43897054 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/25173154:_____/22:N0000019
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041622000651?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041622000651?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101469" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101469</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature's thermodynamic costs
Original language description
The summarizing article formulates a new paradigm of the relationship between people and nature. The neoclassical, unilaterally-defined value concept of ecosystem services (ES) as ?benefits? must be counterbalanced by a transparent and valid assessment of thermodynamic costs that result from degrading mature climax ecosystems. It is because willingness to pay-based methods of ES valuations produce unsustainable value relations that promote continuation of business-as-usual and further destruction of the fragments of nature. The authors argue that conversions from temperate forest to built environments result in economic losses of supporting and regulating ES that are more than two hundred times greater than the economic benefits. The loss of the cooling effect from evapotranspiration, replaced by warming from sensible heat creation in built environments, results in energetic impacts that are two orders of magnitude greater than those from greenhouse gas emissions. This is why, for sustainable landscape decision-making, the preference method results have to be compared to the costs that nature and humans have to bear due to anthropogenic changes in the natural landscape. Economic agents should start to pay for their ?heat footprint?, ie. for thermodynamic losses caused by their transformation of natural ecosystems. By incorporating solar energy dissipation losses as costs to ecosystems, the proper value relations can be achieved, with climax forests as the most valuable producers of supporting and regulating ES. Humans are unable to equivalently substitute such forests using human technologies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10510 - Climatic research
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/TD03000093" target="_blank" >TD03000093: Innovated restart of biotope valuation method</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecosystem Services
ISSN
2212-0416
e-ISSN
2212-0416
Volume of the periodical
2022
Issue of the periodical within the volume
57
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
2
Pages from-to
1-2
UT code for WoS article
000848218600004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85136518778