Conflicts between increasing ecosystem services (ESs) demand and limited or even decreased natural capital hinders the sustainable development of river basins worldwide. The main reason for the conflicts is that human interventions have seriously decoupled the original harmonious relationship between humans and nature. In this review, we proposed a network connectivity-based assessment framework for river basin ES management which aims to quantify the connections among ecosystems, ESs, ES beneficiaries, ES management organizations and external drives. Construction of the network is based on how multiple ESs are provided and consumed among multiple beneficiaries, to cope with external drivers and inform management efforts. This framework can be used to identify if management intervention is needed for keeping river basin ESs and to address any changes in the interactive socio-ecological system for more sustainable river basin ES management.

生态系统服务需求增加与自然资本有限甚至减少之间的冲突，阻碍了世界范围内流域的可持续发展。发生冲突的主要原因是，人为干预已严重地使人与自然之间的原始和谐关系脱钩。在本文中，我们提出了一个基于网络连通性的流域ES管理评估框架，旨在量化生态系统，ES，ES受益人，ES管理组织和外部驱动力之间的联系。网络的构建基于多个受益者之间如何提供和使用多个ES，以应对外部驱动程序并通知管理工作。