...James Boyd; Robert J. Johnston; Paul Ringold A recent focus of ecosystem services research has been on the definition of biophysical outcomes and measures most closely linked to social welfare. There is a particular need to identify biophysical outcomes corresponding to existence values. (Values...

..., a social-ecological system (Ostrom, 2009), which articulates human society and the ecosystem (Dasgupta, 2008). This dual concern notably led to the creation of the International Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES ¹). In spite of some early models focusing on pest management...

... Licensed re-use rights only Environmental non-market valuation preference heterogeneity GIS spatial statistics ecosystem services Stated preference (SP) techniques have become increasingly popular over the past two decades to value environmental amenities (Adamowicz, 2004 ; Carson, 2011...

... selection land use ecosystem services habitat configuration Roads are clearly a potential driver of habitat fragmentation. While all land conversion alters the pattern of habitat types, roads directly reduce the contiguous area of any natural habitat (Chomitz and Gray, 1996 ; Forman...

..., 2013). Urbanization and the unprecedented change in land use and land cover around the world have wide-ranging environmental consequences (European Environment Agency, 2010 ; Lawler et al., 2014). Natural systems provide a broad range of ecosystem services upon which humans and all...

... into a payment to ES providers (for example, landholders), so that their total profits from the socially desirable activity become higher than under the conventional activity. ² Payments for Environmental Services Ecosystem Services PES Policy Design H23 Q20 Q50 Q57 Q58...

... of mechanisms was diverse and included methods such as developing markets to encourage sustainable management practices (say, through certification programs) and making payments (either private or public) for provision of ecosystem services on private lands. Here we discuss a range of tools that could be used...

...James Boyd; Paul Ringold; Alan Krupnick; Robert J. Johnston; Matthew A. Weber; Kim Hall For ecosystem services analysis, a key to collaboration between natural and social scientists is the identification and measurement of linking indicators: biophysical indicators that facilitate social...

...David J. Lewis; JunJie Wu This paper develops and reviews some microeconomic foundations for the provision of spatially-dependent ecosystem services from land. We focus on ecosystem services described by a production function with spatial dependencies in the primary input — the amount and pattern...

... only the coastal habitat (i.e., mangroves), taking into account its connectivity with the rest of the seascape (i.e., coral reef) can affect the decision as to how much and which part of the coastal should be developed. The impact of seascape connectivity is examined for three marine ecosystem services...

... to be an international consensus that EBM is how species and ecosystems, and the ecosystem services they deliver, should be administered in the future, although to date there are probably more studies calling for rather than actually doing EBM. Ecosystem based management ecosystem services vector...

...Edward B. Barbier The importance of ecosystem services to human welfare and economic livelihoods in low-income countries is now well recognized. Poor people in developing regions are particularly vulnerable to the deteriorating ecological values resulting from the loss of tropical forests, coral...