caa a22 4500 445855142 CHVBK 20180317145425.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10640-010-9407-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10640-010-9407-0 The Impact of Land-Use Change on Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Returns to Landowners: A Case Study in the State of Minnesota [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Polasky, Erik Nelson, Derric Pennington, Kris Johnson] Land-use change has a significant impact on the world's ecosystems. Changes in the extent and composition of forests, grasslands, wetlands and other ecosystems have large impacts on the provision of ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation and returns to landowners. While the change in private returns to landowners due to land-use change can often be measured, changes in the supply and value of ecosystem services and the provision of biodiversity conservation have been harder to quantify. In this paper we use a spatially explicit integrated modeling tool (InVEST) to quantify the changes in ecosystem services, habitat for biodiversity, and returns to landowners from land-use change in Minnesota from 1992 to 2001. We evaluate the impact of actual land-use change and a suite of alternative land-use change scenarios. We find a lack of concordance in the ranking of baseline and alternative land-use scenarios in terms of generation of private returns to landowners and net social benefits (private returns plus ecosystem service value). Returns to landowners are highest in a scenario with large-scale agricultural expansion. This scenario, however, generated the lowest net social benefits across all scenarios considered because of large losses in stored carbon and negative impacts on water quality. Further, this scenario resulted in the largest decline in habitat quality for general terrestrial biodiversity and forest songbirds. Our results illustrate the importance of taking ecosystem services into account in land-use and land-management decision-making and linking such decisions to incentives that accurately reflect social returns. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Ecosystem services nationallicence Biodiversity nationallicence Land use nationallicence Private returns to landowners nationallicence Net social benefits nationallicence Tradeoffs nationallicence Polasky Stephen Department of Applied Economics/Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue/1987 Upper Buford Circle, 55108, St. Paul, MN, USA aut Nelson Erik Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 371 Serra Mall, 94305-5020, Stanford, CA, USA aut Pennington Derric Department of Applied Economics/Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue/1987 Upper Buford Circle, 55108, St. Paul, MN, USA aut Johnson Kris Department of Applied Economics/Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue/1987 Upper Buford Circle, 55108, St. Paul, MN, USA aut Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 48/2(2011-02-01), 219-242 0924-6460 48:2<219 2011 48 10640 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9407-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9407-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Polasky Stephen Department of Applied Economics/Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue/1987 Upper Buford Circle, 55108, St. Paul, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nelson Erik Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 371 Serra Mall, 94305-5020, Stanford, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pennington Derric Department of Applied Economics/Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue/1987 Upper Buford Circle, 55108, St. Paul, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Johnson Kris Department of Applied Economics/Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue/1987 Upper Buford Circle, 55108, St. Paul, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 48/2(2011-02-01), 219-242 0924-6460 48:2<219 2011 48 10640 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer