Ecosystem service research covers a challenging socio-ecological complexity and
simultaneously copes with a high policy demand for decision support in sustainable …

Nowadays, a variety of methodologies are available to assess local, regional and global
impacts of human activities on ecosystems, which include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) …

In cities, land-use decisions made during planning processes determine the availability of
ecosystem services fundamental to the wellbeing of urban population. Hence, the inclusion …

Greening roofs or walls to cool down city areas during summer, to capture storm water, to
abate pollution, and to increase human well-being while enhancing biodiversity: nature …

This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban
planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban …

Applying ecosystem services (ES) concepts and indicators in landscape planning requires
them to be linked with models for decision-making by practitioners. The objective of this …

Despite growing knowledge of ecosystem services (ES), and heightened awareness of their
political and socio-economic relevance, mainstreaming and implementing ES in landscape …

In the light of ongoing global urbanization and the high pace of resource consumption, there
is an urgent need to foster compact cities. Currently, however, we lack integrative guidelines …

Despite rapid advances in development of the ecosystem services (ES) concept, challenges
remain for its use in decision making. Cultural ES (CES) have proven particularly difficult to …

Mainstreaming the ecosystem services (ES) concept in EU policy-making, ie, introducing it in
a variety of policy fields, comes along with great expectations from practitioners, policy …