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Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2021 We propose an alternative methodology for engaging with multifaceted cultural ecosystem services (CES) in the Global South. We explore the use of dialogue as a tool for understanding CES in situ, while developing shared action steps toward CES conservation among stakeholders.
Karen E. Allen +2 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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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023 Technology-enabled services (TESs) are clinical interventions that combine technological and human components to provide health services. TESs for mental health are efficacious in the treatment of anxiety and depression and are currently being offered as frontline treatments around the world.
Elizabeth H Eustis +3 more
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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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History and services of culture collections [PDF]
International Microbiology, 2003 Microbial culture collections aim at collecting, maintaining and distributing microbial strains among microbiologists, and are considered to be a means to preserve microbial diversity ex situ. This article reviews the early history of culture collections, which were first set up in the late nineteenth century, with the introduction of pure culture ...
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Service Design as a Cultural Intermediary. Translating cultural phenomena into services [PDF]
The Design Journal, 2017 This paper expands existing service design and customer experience discourse by critically viewing service design through the lens of design as a cultural intermediary.
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Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2015 Journal of Early Modern Studies, Vol 4 (2015)
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Developing a Service Culture [PDF]
, 2015 Service quality has been increasingly identified as a key factor in differentiating service products and building a competitive advantage in tourism. The process by which customers evaluate a purchase, thereby determining satisfaction and likelihood of repurchase, is important to all marketers, but especially to services marketers because, unlike their
Dr. Simon Hudson, Louise Hudson
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Culture and Service Quality [PDF]
, 2018 Abstract This chapter uses the dataset of tourist satisfaction index of Hong Kong to investigate the impact of cultural difference on the gap between tourists’ expectations and their perceptions of actual service performance. When the tourists’ demographic profile and their experience are controlled, it is found that small cultural ...
Bona Kim, Lingxu Zhou, Anyu Liu
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Introduction to Cultural Services [PDF]
, 2018 Cultural services of marine bivalves are of high value as they provide well-being in many different ways. These services are more difficult to quantify but provide a lot of qualities. Shell collectioning, shells as archives, community efforts for bivalve restoration and gardening are some cases of cultural services. Marine bivalves have been recognized
Smaal, Aad C., Strand, Øivind
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