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Synergies and Trade-Offs Between Ecosystem Services

Part of the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals book series (ENUNSDG)

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Co-occurrence; Efficiency frontiers; ES bundle; Pareto frontiers; Production possibility frontiers

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When multiple ecosystem services (ES) can be, or are, present in a landscape, their relationship becomes important to understand how that landscape can contribute toward sustainability and human well-being. A co-occurrence of ES exists when two ES occur at the same time and place. An ES bundle reflects multiple ES jointly delivered. However, co-occurrence does not provide much information about their relationship. There is a synergy, when an ecosystem is managed such that two ecosystems are present and together create a beneficial effect that is larger than the sum of their individual effects. A win-win situation is when there are two parties that experience (net) benefits, or when one management action or intervention improves two or more ES. A trade-offoccurs where increasing or gaining one ES must come at the expense or decrease of another ES, or when one party...

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  1. Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Marije Schaafsma

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Schaafsma, M., Bartkowski, B. (2020). Synergies and Trade-Offs Between Ecosystem Services. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_117-1

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