Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective

GN Bratman, CB Anderson, MG Berman, B Cochran… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the value of nature experience for mental
health. With rapid urbanization and declines in human contact with nature globally, crucial …

Priorities to advance monitoring of ecosystem services using earth observation

AF Cord, KA Brauman, R Chaplin-Kramer… - Trends in ecology & …, 2017 - cell.com
Managing ecosystem services in the context of global sustainability policies requires reliable
monitoring mechanisms. While satellite Earth observation offers great promise to support …

The impact of COVID-19 on the management of European protected areas and policy implications

J McGinlay, V Gkoumas, J Holtvoeth, RFA Fuertes… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic led to many European countries imposing lockdown measures
and limiting people's movement during spring 2020. During the summer 2020, these strict …

Instagram, Flickr, or Twitter: Assessing the usability of social media data for visitor monitoring in protected areas

H Tenkanen, E Di Minin, V Heikinheimo… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Social media data is increasingly used as a proxy for human activity in different
environments, including protected areas, where collecting visitor information is often …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptualising cultural ecosystem services: A novel framework for research and critical engagement

R Fish, A Church, M Winter - Ecosystem Services, 2016 - Elsevier
The construction of culture as a class of ecosystem service presents a significant test of the
holistic ambitions of an ecosystems approach to decision making. In this paper we explore …

[PDF][PDF] Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications

A Waldron, V Adams, J Allan, A Arnell, G Asner… - 2020 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications Page 1
Anthony Waldron1; Vanessa Adams2; James Allan3; Andy Arnell4; Greg Asner5; Scott Atkinson6; …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing spatial and temporal patterns of outdoor recreation in the European Alps and their surroundings

U Schirpke, C Meisch, T Marsoner, U Tappeiner - Ecosystem services, 2018 - Elsevier
Outdoor recreation contributes vitally to human well-being, but spatio-temporal mapping on
large scales of this ecosystem service is rarely addressed in a comprehensive manner. In …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding changes in park visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A spatial application of big data

WL Rice, B Pan - Wellbeing, space and society, 2021 - Elsevier
In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the daily lives of people around the
world. In an effort to quantify these changes, Google released an open-source dataset …

Assessing and valuing the recreational ecosystem services of Germany's national parks using travel cost models

M Mayer, M Woltering - Ecosystem services, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper estimates the recreational ecosystem services (RES) of 15 German national
parks (NLP) in one of the most comprehensive RES valuations of NLP systems performed to …

[HTML][HTML] Using social media data and machine learning to map recreational ecosystem services

C Nyelele, C Keske, MG Chung, H Guo, BN Egoh - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Crowdsourced geotagged social media data and machine learning approaches have
emerged as promising tools for mapping ecosystem services, especially cultural ecosystem …