Scholars have made great advances in modeling and mapping ecosystem services, and in
assigning economic values to these services. This modeling and valuation scholarship is …

We review the evidence on the economic values of forest ecosystem services in developing
nations and the effectiveness of policies aimed at protecting these services. We conclude …

Natural regeneration of secondary forests can be an important source of recovery of
ecosystem services (ES) critical for humanity, especially for climate change mitigation and …

Most government agencies involved in land management are seeking consistent
approaches to evaluate the effects of specific management actions on ecological processes …

To develop effective environmental policies, we must understand the mechanisms through
which the policies affect social and environmental outcomes. Unfortunately, empirical …

We evaluate the return on investment (ROI) from public land conservation in the state of
Minnesota, USA. We use a spatially-explicit modeling tool, the Integrated Valuation of …

Increasingly government agencies are seeking to quantify the outcomes of proposed policy
options in terms of ecosystem service benefits, yet conflicting definitions and ad hoc …

Ecosystem services valuation has achieved considerable prominence in research and
policy circles in recent years, especially since the publication of the Millennium Ecosystem …

Nature provides many benefits for people, yet there are few data on how changes at
individual sites impact the net value of ecosystem service provision. A 2002 review found …

We review and confirm the claim that credible evaluations of common conservation
instruments continue to be rare. The limited set of rigorous studies suggests that protected …