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- Title
Implications of agricultural transitions and urbanization for ecosystem services.
- Authors
Cumming, Graeme S.; Buerkert, Andreas; Hoffmann, Ellen M.; Schlecht, Eva; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan; Tscharntke, Teja
- Abstract
Historically, farmers and hunter-gatherers relied directly on ecosystem services, which they both exploited and enjoyed. Urban populations still rely on ecosystems, but prioritize non-ecosystem services (socioeconomic). Population growth and densification increase the scale and change the nature of both ecosystem- and non-ecosystem-service supply and demand, weakening direct feedbacks between ecosystems and societies and potentially pushing social-ecological systems into traps that can lead to collapse. The interacting and mutually reinforcing processes of technological change, population growth and urbanization contribute to over-exploitation of ecosystems through complex feedbacks that have important implications for sustainable resource use.
- Subjects
AGRICULTURE; URBANIZATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FARMERS; HUNTERS
- Publication
Nature, 2014, Vol 515, Issue 7525, p50
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nature13945