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Valuing Cultural Ecosystem Services [PDF]
Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2016 The ecosystem services (ES) framework was developed to articulate and measure the benefits humans receive from ecosystems. Cultural ecosystem services (CES), usually defined as the intangible and nonmaterial benefits ecosystems provide, have been relatively neglected by researchers and policy-makers compared to provisioning, supporting, and regulating ...
Hirons, M, Comberti, C, Dunford, R
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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 +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 +4 more
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South African Journal of Science, 2020 Cultural ecosystem services make an important and valuable contribution to human well-being. However, research efforts in relation to ecosystems do not reflect this value, with the majority focusing on provisioning service contributions in developed ...
Shaun Mowat, Bruce Rhodes
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Spatial covariance between aesthetic value & other ecosystem services. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Mapping the spatial distribution of ecosystem goods and services represents a burgeoning field of research, although how different services covary with one another remains poorly understood.
Stefano Casalegno +3 more
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Social preferences for ecosystem services in a biodiversity hotspot in South America [PDF]
, 2019 Identifying which ecosystem services are relevant to different stakeholders and understanding stakeholders’ perceptions of such services is useful for making informed decisions, especially in regions of the world where the achievement of biodiversity ...
Bidegain, Iñigo +4 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 +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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Identifying hotspots and management of critical ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta Region, China [PDF]
, 2017 Rapid urbanization has altered many ecosystems, causing a decline in many ecosystem services, generating serious ecological crisis. To cope with these challenges, we presented a comprehensive framework comprising five core steps for identifying and ...
Cai, Wenbo +4 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. +21 more
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