An application of Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) to three national forests in Colorado and Wyoming

Integrating Spatially Explicit Representations of Landscape Perceptions into Land Change Research

“…Using statistical models to describe the relationship between perceived values and other landscape characteristics enables a more detailed understanding of which landscape features contribute to perceived value. In addition, this approach has the important advantages of yielding continuous value-intensity surfaces across the landscape [62,63], the possibility to extend or transfer results beyond the original study area [64,65], and Fig. 2 (a) The number of journal articles containing keywords "landscape" and "perception" over time compared with those also addressing change.…”

“…Today many examples exist of public attitude and preference surveys used to gather the spatial and non-spatial data needed to map social values across the landscape. The maps produced with these data have evolved from representations with points [57][58][59] and polygons [60], to continuous value-intensity surfaces derived from statistical models [61,62].…”

Participatory GIS in Mapping Ecosystem Services: Two Case Studies from High-Biodiversity Regions in Italy and Peru

“…We also used the GIS-based tool Social Values for Ecosystem Service (SolVES), which is specifically designed to quantify the perceived social values of a series of ES through a quantitative, 10-point social-values metric, the Value Index (Sherrouse et al, 2011). SolVES version 2.1 integrates the Maxent maximum entropy modelling software, which produces maps and statistics that integrate the social values of ES distribution with the layers that the user introduced into the system -in this case, rasters about land use and land cover, the important sub-watersheds, the area occupied by different protected areas, and indigenous communities (Sherrouse, 2014). …”

“…The inclusion of the ES concept in processes of ecosystem evaluation and land management provides decision makers with a means of evaluating more holistically the social, economic and biophysical values of an area (Nahuelhual et al, 2016;Sherrouse et al, 2014;Bryan et al, 2010;MA, 2005). Ecosystems and their services have an intrinsic spatial connotation, and one of the main technical and conceptual challenges is their mapping, where the map goes…”

“…He proposed using the sense of place, or place perception framework, referred to in various fieldwork studies using different terms, such as 'place-based values', 'landscape values' and 'social values of ES' (Sherrouse et al, 2011). Social values of ES are defined as the 'perceived qualities carried by a natural environment that provide benefits to support human well-being' (Van Riper et al, 2012) or 'non-market values perceived by ecosystem stakeholders' (Sherrouse et al, 2014). In the context of our study, hereafter we use the term 'social values of landscape ES' to refer to all the previous concepts at a landscape scale.…”