Sammanfattning

Production possibility frontier (PPF) in economics denotes the set of all efficient combinations of the amounts of two or more goods that can be produced from the given resources and within the given technology. In the ecosystem services context, it corresponds to all efficient combinations of the amounts of two or more ecosystem services that can be obtained from the given land area within the given management framework. PPF thus captures the conflict, or trade-off, between the production of different goods or services. However, there is a lack of an agreed understanding of what precisely in a PPF expresses the degree of that conflict. This lack of clarity may greatly confound the discussions on trade-offs. This paper tries to answer the two following questions: (1) what exactly is trade-off in the PPF context? (2) how to effectively measure and compare trade-offs across PPFs? In response to the second question, a quantitative generic measure of trade-off severity is proposed.

Nyckelord

trade-off; production possibility frontier; ecosystem services

Publicerad i

Sustainability
2023, Volym: 15, nummer: 24, artikelnummer: 16763
Utgivare: MDPI

SLU författare

• Trubins, Renats

  • Institutionen för sydsvensk skogsvetenskap, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Miljövetenskap


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su152416763

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/127875