Valuing nature: lessons learned and future research directions

Abstract

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Defining and classifying ecosystem services for decision making

“…Services are often benefit dependent (Boyd and Banzhaf, 2007) Since different stakeholders perceive different benefits from the same ecosystem processes they can at times be conflicting (Turner, 2003;Hein, 2006 …”

A framework for the social valuation of ecosystem services

“…Ideally, the study area should be extended to include the causes and effects on the object of study, but in practice, it is sufficient to limit it to the timespan and territories that influence both the biophysical and the sociological dimensions the most. Since the appreciation of ecosystem services hinges on stakeholders' dependence and their preferences might change over time and across spatial scales (Alcamo et al 2003;Turner et al 2003;Hein et al 2006;Lamarque et al 2011), a multiscale assessment of ecosystem services is valuable (Trabucchi et al 2013). This process might increase the complexity of the evaluation, but capturing a greater variety of opinions and interactions among stakeholders and the ecosystem also increases knowledge concerning the decision context and enables the adaptation of management policies to each spatial and temporal scale (Hauck et al 2013).…”

Impacts of land-use change on valued ecosystem service in rapidly urbanized North China Plain

“…Since then, a large number of scholars have followed Costanza's footsteps to examine the VES of ecosystems. Nevertheless, some researchers have challenged the method and the result proposed by Costanza et al (1997), arguing that there are the following problems with the method: too little resolution, too much variation, and limitations with the economic evaluation of land-use types (Limburg et al, 2002;Turner et al, 2003;Lu et al, 2012). Furthermore, land use types are used as a proxy for ecosystem services while the biomes used as proxies do not always perfectly match (Kreuter et al, 2001).…”