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 …

The obligations of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 are generating a need to create
national maps and monitoring systems for the state of biodiversity and ecosystem services …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Identifying and applying the appropriate method for ecosystem services mapping and
assessment is not trivial. To provide guidance in this task, this paper describes the creation …

This paper aims to improve ecosystem assessment practice by sharing the lessons learned
from the Flanders Regional Ecosystem Assessment. The 'EU biodiversity strategy to 2020' …

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 …

Abstract Backed by the Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 and 2030, numerous 'Mapping and
Assessment of Ecosystem Services'(MAES) projects have been completed in recent years in …