The ecosystem services (ES) framework was developed to articulate and measure the
benefits humans receive from ecosystems. Cultural ecosystem services (CES), usually …

This paper integrates the ideas of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) with
the highly topical issue of sustainability reporting. Luhmann sought a detailed description of …

The System of Environmental and Economic Accounting aims at the integration of national
accounts with the contributions of the environment. After three decades of development …

This study explores the benefits of combining results of qualitative focus group discussions
(FGDs) with a quantitative choice experiment (CE) in a low-income country context. The …

Abstract Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) have been promoted worldwide as a
means to incentivise biodiversity, forest conservation and sustainable forest management …

Markets dominate the world's food systems. Today's food systems fail to realize the
normative foundations of ecological economics: justice, sustainability, efficiency, and value …

The concept of externalities represents the core of environmental economics but appears
much less in sociology and other social sciences. This article presents the concept of …

The goal of this research was to implement an optimization model that allows definition of
best management strategies in the forest sector. The case study is depicted in a coniferous …

In this essay-style chapter, I focus on the analytical concept of languages of valuation and
look at the work of the Barcelona School of Social Environmental Science in using it to study …

The dialectical relationship between ecosystems and society is complex; therefore, holistic
approaches are required to address this complexity. This view also stands out in the …