Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature's thermodynamic costs

Kód výsledku v 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>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/25173154:_____/22:N0000019

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature's thermodynamic costs

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature's thermodynamic costs

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10510 - Climatic research

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/TD03000093" target="_blank" >TD03000093: Inovovaný restart metodiky hodnocení biotopů</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Ecosystem Services

ISSN

2212-0416

e-ISSN

2212-0416

Svazek periodika

2022

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

57

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

2

Strana od-do

1-2

Kód UT WoS článku

000848218600004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85136518778