This paper introduces the special issue on 'Methods for ecosystem services governance
analysis'. The term 'ecosystem service governance'has only recently emerged in the peer …

ABSTRACT Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives, which provide financial
incentives for management practices thought to increase the production of environmental …

Games are particularly relevant for field research in agriculture, where alternative
experimental designs can be costly and unfeasible. Games are also popular for non …

Globally, 38% of the land area is agricultural land, of which 45% are located on drylands,
mainly in Africa and Asia, constituting the basis for about 60% of the world's food production …

Handbooks are products of the careful curation of a diverse collection of contributions, but
we rarely hear about how these collections come together—that is, about the processes of …

Payments for hydrological services (PHS) apply an incentive-based approach to achieve
conservation and socioeconomic goals. PHS policies are most successful when they are …

While the concept of ecosystem services which links biodiversity to human wellbeing, is by
now well-known, its translation into actual management decisions is still uneven. African …

In many places around the world, the continuing expansion of agricultural land into forested
areas is a context which urgently needs transformative change towards more sustainable …

Role-play simulations are often used in education, communication, and social science
research as an instrument for experiential learning, skill development, and more recently for …

The management of multiple-use reserves is challenging due to trade-offs between the
conservation of natural capital, the provision of different ecosystem services (ES) and the …