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      Linking salmon aquaculture synergies and trade-offs on ecosystem services to human wellbeing constituents.

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          Abstract

          Salmon aquaculture has emerged as a successful economic industry generating high economic revenues to invest in the development of Chiloe region, Southern Chile. However, salmon aquaculture also consumes a substantial amount of ecosystem services, and the direct and indirect impacts on human wellbeing are still unknown and unexplored. This paper identifies the synergies and trade-offs caused by the salmon industry on a range of ecosystem services. The results show that large economic benefits due to the increase of provisioning ecosystem services are also causing a reduction on regulating and cultural services. Despite the improvement on average income and poverty levels experienced in communities closely associated with the sector, this progress is not large enough and social welfare did not improve substantially over the last decade. The rest of human wellbeing constituents in Chiloe region have not changed significantly compared to the development in the rest of the country.

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          Journal
          Ambio
          Ambio
          Springer Nature
          0044-7447
          0044-7447
          Dec 2013
          : 42
          : 8
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Universidad de Los Lagos, Campus de Osorno, Pabellón Lago Yelcho, Osorno, Los Lagos, Chile, louteiro@gmail.com.
          Article
          10.1007/s13280-013-0457-8
          3824879
          24214000
          4eae203d-7218-4574-89f8-b5c8de8f28d3
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