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

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' …

This paper presents a synthesis of the PRESS initiative (PEER7 Research on Ecosystem
Services). In support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, this initiative demonstrated a …

Mainstreaming ecosystem services into policy and decision making is dependent on the
availability of spatially explicit information on the state and trends of ecosystems and their …

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 …

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 …

National ecosystem assessments form an essential knowledge base for safeguarding
biodiversity and ecosystem services. We analyze eight European (sub-) national ecosystem …

Ecosystem services are the benefits humankind derives from the workings of the natural
world. These include most obviously the supply of food, fuels and materials, but also more …

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 …