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Ecosystem Services for Scenic Quality Landscape Management: A Review
Land, 2021 Since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project proposed the valuation of ecosystem services—defined as regulatory, provisional, ecosystem and cultural—the question arises as to the utility of such assessments for scenic landscape management.
Richard Smardon
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Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment [PDF]
Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2015 This paper is about the practice of evaluating ecosystems on the basis of the cultural services they provide. My first aim is to assess the various objections that have been made to this practice. My second is to argue that when particular places are integral to people’s lives, their value cannot be adequately conceived in terms of the provision of ...
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Assessment of Recreational and Cultural Ecosystem Services Value of Islands
Land, 2022 With the gradual expansion of benefits provided by islands to human wellbeing, it has become increasingly important to quantify the cultural ecosystem service functions of islands.
Na Zhao +3 more
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Improving nature-based tourism accounts: The importance of national data for robust ecosystem service estimates [PDF]
One EcosystemThe new EU regulation on ecosystem accounting requires Member States to report annually on the supply and use of seven ecosystem services. To support this process, Eurostat provides a voluntary INCA tool along with default datasets and methods.
Tytti Jussila +5 more
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Uncovering ecosystem service bundles through social preferences.
PLoS ONE, 2012 Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few studies have coped with the social-cultural dimension of ecosystem services, despite
Berta Martín-López +14 more
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Novel ecosystems and the emergence of cultural ecosystem services [PDF]
Ecosystem Services, 2014 Many landscapes are severely depleted of ecosystem services, especially industrial ones. Yet, abandoned and, in some cases, regenerating areas are often situated within a wider cultural landscape. With minimal further disturbance these ‘novel ecosystems’ have the potential for recovering some of the ecosystem services that were removed or impeded ...
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Using graph theory and social media data to assess cultural ecosystem services in coastal areas: Method development and application [PDF]
Ecosystem Services, 2020 The use of social media (SM) data has emerged as a promising tool for the assessment of cultural ecosystem services (CES). Most studies have focused on the use of single SM platforms and on the analysis of photo content to assess the demand for CES. Here,
A. Ruiz-Frau +5 more
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LandCultural Ecosystem Services (CESs), as non-material benefits and well-being provided by ecosystems to humans, possess the ability to bridge nature and human society and interpret their complex interrelationships.
Yuqing Zhao +5 more
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Environmental Science and Policy, 2021 Elaborating the benefits humans receive from coastal wetlands using a Cultural Ecosystem Services assessment is an emergent and important field linking human wellbeing to ecosystem function.
B. Clarke +3 more
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, 2021 Cultivating a deeper understanding of the response mechanism of cultural ecosystem services to urbanization is increasingly recognized as a critical component of sustainable governance and land-use decision making.
Zhifang Wang +5 more
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