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Rasmussen, Laura Vang, Christensen, Andreas E., Danielsen, Finn, Dawson, Neil, Martin, Adrian 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2916-7712, Mertz, Ole, Sikor, Thomas, Thongmanivong, Sithong and Xaydongvanh, Pheang
(2017)
From food to pest: Conversion factors determine switches between ecosystem services and disservices.
AMBIO, 46 (2).
173–183.
ISSN 0044-7447
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Abstract
Ecosystem research focuses on goods and services, thereby ascribing beneficial values to the ecosystems. Depending on the context, however, outputs from ecosystems can be both positive and negative. We examined how provisioning services of wild animals and plants can switch between being services and disservices. We studied agricultural communities in Laos to illustrate when and why these switches take place. Government restrictions on land use combined with economic and cultural changes have created perceptions of rodents and plants as problem species in some communities. In other communities that are maintaining shifting cultivation practices, the very same taxa were perceived as beneficial. We propose conversion factors that in a given context can determine where an individual taxon is located along a spectrum from ecosystem service to disservice, when, and for whom. We argue that the omission of disservices in ecosystem service accounts may lead governments to direct investments at inappropriate targets.
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| Additional Information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cash crop production,conservation,ecosystem disservices,ecosystem services,shifting cultivation,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_on_land |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2016 00:56 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2023 12:42 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60303 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13280-016-0813-6 |
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