King, E., Cavender-Bares, J., Balvanera, P., Mwampamba, T. H., & Polasky, S. (2015). Trade-offs in ecosystem services and varying stakeholder preferences: evaluating conflicts, obstacles, and opportunities. Ecology and Society, 20(3). doi: 10.5751/ES-07822-200325 (open access)
This paper, just published in Ecology and Society, builds on the analytical framework for ecosystem tradeoffs that our NCEAS-supported working group developed. In this report, we evaluate how the framework can be implemented in a participatory context to assess divergent values among stakeholders, barriers to improving sustainability, and enabling factors that can promote consensus.
