Ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that humans derive from ecosystems, support people
around the world. These include, inter alia, provisioning of food and fibre, regulating and …

Abstract The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 requires the Member States of the European
Union to map and assess ecosystem services. This paper presents a procedure for …

Target 2, Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy requests member states “to map and
assess ecosystems and their services”(Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their …

The awareness that natural and semi-natural ecosystems provide benefits to human society,
which are of great economic, ecological and socio-cultural value, can be dated back to the …

Mapping, visualisation and the access to suitable data as a means to facilitate the dialogue
among scientists, policy makers and the general public are among the most challenging …

In the EU, the mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services, abbreviated to
MAES, is seen as a key action for the advancement of biodiversity objectives, and also to …

Spatial planning is often affected by conflicting sectoral interests. Frequently, this results in
unsustainable management practices. Integrating the concept of ecosystem services into …

Quantification of ecosystem services (ES) is an important step in operationalizing the
concept for management and decision‐making. With the exponential increase in ES …

Mainstreaming ecosystem services in EU decision making processes requires a solid
conceptual and methodological framework for mapping and assessing ecosystem services …

Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) are central to the EU
Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. Action 5 of the Strategy's second target asks all EU member …