Cultural ecosystem services constitute a growing field of research that is characterized by an
increasing number of publications from various academic disciplines. We conducted a …

This review assesses existing data, models, and other knowledge-based methods for
valuing the effects of sustainable land management including the cost of land degradation …

The construction of culture as a class of ecosystem service presents a significant test of the
holistic ambitions of an ecosystems approach to decision making. In this paper we explore …

In 1997, the global value of ecosystem services was estimated to average $33 trillion/yr in
1995$ US ($46 trillion/yr in 2007$ US). In this paper, we provide an updated estimate based …

Abstract Since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, ecosystem service science has made
much progress in framing core concepts and approaches, but there is still debate around the …

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 …

Human activities have an impact on the structure and function of ecosystems, which in turn
affects ecosystem service (ES) supply and demand. Based on the four-quadrant model of …

In the last decades, there have been large areas of agricultural land that were abandoned in
Europe, producing significant social and environmental impacts. Land abandonment is a …

There has been an increasing focus on the valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services
in global research, which has improved our understanding of how nature benefits humanity …

Ecological infrastructure (EI) refers to ecosystems that deliver services to society, functioning
as a nature-based equivalent of, or complement to, built infrastructure. EI is critical for socio …