Abstract The Ecosystem Services Journal starts in 2012 with a formidable basis in the
reports and books from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and TEEB projects …

To enter widespread use, ecosystem service assessments need to be quantifiable,
replicable, credible, flexible, and affordable. With recent growth in the field of ecosystem …

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 …

In the European Union (EU) efforts to conserve biodiversity have been consistently directed
towards the protection of habitats and species through the designation of protected areas …

Research on ecosystem services mapping and valuing has increased significantly in recent
years. However, compared to provisioning and regulating services, cultural ecosystem …

The use of ecosystem service maps for conservation planning is increasing. However, their
potential for measuring the benefits derived from protected areas has rarely been studied …

Some of the main research questions in the assessment ecosystem services include how to
integrate ecological and social information into the analysis and how to make it spatially …

The question of how ecosystem services can be spatially defined and visualized continues
to be challenging, particularly for cultural services such as recreation and ecotourism. This …

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 …

This paper provides a framework for addressing recreation as an example of Cultural
Ecosystem Services and a methodology to support landscape management based on …