The elasticity of mangrove ecosystem services in the Jor Bay, Indonesia

Abstract

The mangrove ecosystem in Jor Bay is described as a socio-ecological system that has a multi-puidrose function and is related to ecosystem services. The concept of ecosystem services is based on the relationship between ecosystem quality and human well-being. But this relationship is complicated and we have a poor understanding of how the quality of mangrove ecosystems can affect human well-being, and how human well-being changes in response to increase or decline in ecosystem change. Therefore, an elasticity analysis is conducted to determine that linkage mechanism and simplify the complexities and context dependency of the ecosystem quality and human well-being relationship. The study was conducted in April-May 2018 in Jor Bay, East Lombok Regency, West Nusa Tenggara. The approach that was used in this research is an Elasticity Model. The results obtained are ecosystem services that are most widely used in Jor Bay, especially in non-direct extraction use. The general condition of ecosystem services in Teluk Jor is still in a suidrlus condition (using a capacity matrix, demand matrix and supply matrix). After mapping out the elasticity, it was found that the mangrove ecosystem in Jor Bay has a high positive elasticity.