Reasons and options for integrating ecosystem services in strategic environmental assessment of spatial planning
Reasons and options for integrating ecosystem services in strategic environmental assessment of spatial planning
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将生态系统服务纳入空间规划战略环境评估的原因和选择
DOI：
10.1080/21513732.2011.617711
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2011
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D. Geneletti
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D. Geneletti
尽管近年来生态系统服务研究引起了人们的关注，但其用于支持现实生活中的决策过程仍然非常有限，特别是在规划层面。空间规划导致的行动可能会影响范围广泛的生态系统服务的分布和质量。因此，系统地考虑空间规划对生态系统服务的影响将有利于空间规划决策。战略环境评价（SEA）为这一目标提供了一个很好的平台。本文旨在提供见解，为什么它是重要的，以促进生态系统服务包容的SEA过程，以及如何做到这一点，特别强调空间规划。首先，提出了在整个战略环境评估过程中纳入生态系统服务相关信息的可能行动。其次，结合生态系统服务功能评价方法的特点和高质量SEA的评价标准，分析了SEA方法的优势。最后，确定了四个主要挑战，分别涉及范围界定、规模问题、权衡和指标。应对这些挑战必然会产生更有效的SEA流程和更好的规划决策。
Despite the attention that research on ecosystem services has attracted in recent years, its use to support real-life decision-making processes is still very limited, especially at the planning level. Spatial planning results in actions that may affect the distribution and quality of a wide range of ecosystem services. Hence, spatial planning decisions would benefit from systematic considerations of their effects on ecosystem services. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) provides an excellent platform to this purpose. This paper aims at providing insights on why it is important to promote ecosystem service-inclusive SEA processes, and on how to do it, with particular emphasis on spatial planning. First, possible actions to include relevant information of ecosystem services throughout the SEA process are presented. Second, the advantages are discussed by considering both the characteristics of ecosystem services approaches and the criteria of good-quality SEA. Finally, four main challenges are identified, concerning scoping, scale issues, trade-offs, and indicators, respectively. Addressing these challenges is bound to produce more effective SEA processes and better planning decisions.