The political ecology of ecosystem services

摘要: Abstract The dominance of “ecosystem services” as a guiding concept for environmental management – where it appears neutral, obvious, taken-for-granted hides the fact that there are choices implicit in its framing and application. In other words, is highly political concept, utility depends on arena which used what for. Following ecology framework, based literature review, bibliometric analyses, brief examples from two tropical rainforest countries, this review investigates four moments construction application ecosystem services idea: socio-historical (the emergence discourse), ontological (what knowledge does allow?), scientific (difficulties practical application), (who wins, who loses?). We show how boundary object with widespread appeal, trace discursive institutional context within gained traction, argue scale, definition, method measuring frustrate straightforward As result, diverse ways by different interests to justify kinds interventions at times might be totally opposed. Madagascar, idea mainly forest conservation open critique neoliberalization nature or disempowerment communities. contrast, Brazilian Amazon, discourse has served agendas traditional populations family farm lobbies. Ecosystem services, an tool, mobilized actors real-life situations lead complex, regionally particular fundamentally outcomes.