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Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes [PDF]

Ecology and Society, 2014
Classical conservation approaches focus on the man-made degradation of ecosystems and tend to neglect the social-ecological values that human land uses have imprinted on many environments. Throughout the world, ingenious land-use practices have generated
Tobias Plieninger, Dan van der Horst, Christian Schleyer, Claudia Bieling   +3 more
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Regional Patterns of Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes [PDF]

Land, 2016
European agricultural landscapes have been shaped by humans to produce marketable private goods such as food, feed, fiber and timber. Land-use intensification to increase provisioning services in such productive landscapes alters the capacity of ...
Andrea Früh-Müller, Stefan Hotes, Lutz Breuer, Volkmar Wolters, Thomas Koellner   +4 more
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Looking into the dragons of cultural ecosystem services [PDF]

Ecosystems and People, 2020
Cultural ecosystem services research is in a somewhat tumultuous state. The cultural ecosystem services (CES) idea is seen simultaneously as a welcoming, expansive addition to conservation policy-making and as a strange, square-peg-in-a-round-hole ...
Rachelle K. Gould, Alison Adams, Luis Vivanco   +2 more
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The generations of cultural ecosystem services research. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
AbstractUnderstanding the cultural dimensions of human–nature relationships and integrating them into decision‐making is a central goal of conservation social science. One prominent avenue for this work is the characterization and analysis of cultural ecosystem services (CES) (i.e., nonmaterial aspects of the benefits derived from human–nature ...
Gould RK, Satterfield T, Leong K, Fisk J.   +3 more
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Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012
Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are consistently recognized but not yet adequately defined or integrated within the ES framework. A substantial body of models, methods, and data relevant to cultural services has been developed within the social and behavioral sciences before and outside of the ES approach.
Daniel, T., Muhar, A., Arnberger, A., Aznar, O., Boyd, J.W., Chan, K., Costanza, R., Elmqvist, T., Flint, C.G., Gobster, P.H., Grêt-Regamey, A., Lave, Remi, Muhar, S., Penker, M., Ribe, R.G., Schauppenlehner, T., Sikor, T., Soloviy, I., Spierenburg, M., Taczanowska, K., Tam, J., von Der Dunk, A.   +21 more
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A New Approach to Mapping Cultural Ecosystem Services [PDF]

Environments, 2021
According to various sources, Southern Morocco has stood out as an outstanding tourist destination in recent decades, with global appeal. Dakhla City, including Dakhla Bay, classified by the Convention on Wetlands in 2005 as a Wetland of International Importance, offers visitors various entertainment opportunities at many city sites.
Mouttaki, Ikram, Khomalli, Youssef, Maanan, Mohamed, Bagdanavičiūtė, Ingrida, Rhinane, Hassan, Kuriqi, Alban, Pham, Quoc Bao, Maanan, Mehdi   +7 more
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Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Literature Review and Prospects for Future Research

Ecology and Society, 2013
Cultural ecosystem services constitute a growing field of research that is characterized by an increasing number of publications from various academic disciplines.
Andra Ioana. Milcu, Jan Hanspach, David Abson, Joern Fischer   +3 more
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Cultural Ecosystem Services of Geodiversity: A Case Study from Stránská skála (Brno, Czech Republic)

Land, 2020
The concept of ecosystem services developed in the second half of the 20th century, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was crucial for its acceptance.
Lucie Kubalíková
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Perceived cultural ecosystem services in Zaribar Coastal Park: Implications for tourist well-being [PDF]

Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society
Cultural ecosystem services embedded in urban green spaces play a vital yet often underappreciated role in shaping tourists’ well-being. This study investigates the perceived contributions of cultural ecosystem services to tourist well-being in
Arman Rastkhadiv, Aisa Fouladi, Jafar Bapiri   +2 more
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Emerging Patterns in Cultural Ecosystem Services as Incentives and Obstacles for Raptor Conservation

Birds, 2021
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment proposed four categories of ecosystem services as regulating, provisioning, supporting and cultural. Of these, cultural services have been the most difficult to quantify despite playing a key role in developing society’
Finbarr G. Horgan, Enrique A. Mundaca, Eduardo Crisol-Martínez   +2 more
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