To better manage our environment, systematic information is needed on the state of
ecosystems and their interactions with society. Efforts have been undertaken to design …

Ecosystem service cascade (ESC) links each component of ecosystem services with social
value, building an interdisciplinary research bridge between natural science and social …

Gross domestic product (GDP) summarizes a vast amount of economic information in a
single monetary metric that is widely used by decision makers around the world. However …

A range of methods are available for assessing ecosystem services. Methods differ in their
aims; from mapping and modelling the supply and demand of ecosystem services to …

We present methods and results of country-based natural capital assessments for four
ecosystem services (ES) in Italy. The spatial mapping and the assessment have been …

The ecosystem service (ES) concept is becoming mainstream in policy and planning, but
operational influence on practice is seldom reported. Here, we report the practitioners' …

The biotic and abiotic assets of the marine environment form the “marine natural capital”
embedded in the global ocean. Marine natural capital provides the flow of “marine …

In natural capital accounting, ecosystems are assets that provide ecosystem services to
people. Assets can be measured using both physical and monetary units. In the international …

Decisions about natural resource management are frequently complex and vexed, often
leading to public policy compromises. Discord between environmental and economic …

Ecosystem accounting is a statistical framework that aims to track the state of ecosystems
and ecosystem services, with periodic updates. This framework follows the statistical …