H21I:
Ecosystem Services: Linking Biophysical Processes to Livelihoods and Economies at Local to Global Scales I

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Session ID#: 17051

Session Description:
There is increasing demand for management and enhancement of ecosystem services ranging from water supply for irrigation to climate stabilization in rural, urban, forest, grassland, and other ecosystems. Linking biophysical processes to their benefits for people; exploring synergies and tradeoffs; and considering the needs of diverse users remain major research needs. A particular focus has been incentive-based policies that link upstream water producers with downstream water consumers through “Payments for Watershed Services” (PWS). Limited understanding of the complex interactions and feedbacks within coupled PWS-social-ecological systems has hampered ability to achieve watershed sustainability goals, and contributed to scrutiny over their effectiveness as policy tools. This session encourages submissions with a holistic and management-oriented focus; interdisciplinary research aimed at understanding the integrated drivers that underpin PWS and other ecosystem service programs; and emerging approaches for design, monitoring, and evaluation. We hope that papers will evolve into a special interdisciplinary journal issue.
Primary Convener:  Kate A Brauman, University of Alabama, Global Water Security Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  David A Kaplan, University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Heidi Asbjornsen, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States and Elizabeth Anderson, Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, FL, United States
Chairs:  Kate A Brauman, University of Alabama, Global Water Security Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, David A Kaplan, University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Elizabeth Anderson, Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, FL, United States and Heidi Asbjornsen, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kate A Brauman, University of Alabama, Global Water Security Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, Global Environmental Change, Public Affairs, and Biogeosciences

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0485 Science policy [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6329 Project evaluation [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

EnviroAtlas: Providing Nationwide Geospatial Ecosystem Goods and Services Indicators and Indices to Inform Decision-Making, Research, and Education (199872)
Anne Carolyn Neale, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
Defining, Measuring, and Incentivizing Sustainable Land Use to Meet Human Needs (119248)
Kimberly A Nicholas1, Mark V Brady2, Stefan Olin3, Johan Ekroos4, Marianne Hall5, Jonathan W. Seaquist3, Veiko Lehsten3 and Henrik Smith4, (1)Lund University, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Lund, Sweden, (2)Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, AgriFood Economics Centre, Department of Economics, Alnarp, Sweden, (3)Lund University, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund, Sweden, (4)Lund University, Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Department of Biology, Lund, Sweden, (5)Swedish Research Council, Stockholm, Sweden
Application of Coupled Human-Natural Systems Model for Assessing Trade-Offs Between Watershed Ecosystem Services in Veracruz, Mexico (175155)
Alex S Mayer1, Kelly Jones2, Z. Carter Berry3, Russ Congalton4, Randy Kolka5, Sergio López-Ramírez6, Robert Manson7, Lyssette Muñoz Villers8, Leonardo Saenz9, Jacob Salcone2, Juan Von Thaden Ugalde7 and Heidi Asbjornsen10, (1)Michigan Technological University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (5)U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, United States, (6)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, (7)Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, Xalapa, Mexico, (8)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico, (9)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States, (10)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Large-scale degradation of Amazonian freshwater ecosystems (Invited) (127530)
Leandro Castello, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Marcia Macedo, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States
Effects of Climate Change and Deforestation on the Amazon’s Hydrological Cycle Will Require Interventions to Hydropower Planning in Brazil (127211)
Mauricio Eduardo Arias1,2, Fabio Farinosi3, Eunjee Lee4, Angela Livino5 and Paul R Moorcroft2, (1)University of South Florida, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tampa, United States, (2)Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (5)Empresa de Pesquisa Energética, Brasilia, Brazil
Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns (121611)
Susanne H Sokolow1,2, Isabel J. Jones3, Diana La3, Olivia Cords3, Anika Knight4, Andrea Lund3, Chelsea L Wood5, Kevin D. Lafferty6,7, Armand M. Kuris7, Christopher Hoover8, Phillip A Collender9, Justin Remais9, David Lopez-Carr7 and Giulio De Leo2, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Medaille College, Buffalo, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)USGS - Western Ecological Research Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (8)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Forecasting the Cumulative Impacts of Dams on the Mekong Delta: Certainties and Uncertainties (140931)
G Mathias Kondolf, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Zan Rubin, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Rafael J. P. Schmitt, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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