Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services

Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda.

Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are consistently recognized but not yet adequately defined or integrated within the ES framework. A substantial body of models, methods, and data relevant to cultural services has been developed within the social and behavioral sciences before and outside of the ES approach. A selective review of work in landscape aesthetics, cultural heritage, outdoor recreatio...

Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes

Classical conservation approaches focus on the man-made degradation of ecosystems and tend to neglect the socialecological values that human land uses have imprinted on many environments. Throughout the world, ingenious land-use practices have generated unique cultural landscapes, but these are under pressure from agricultural intensification, land abandonment, and urbanization. In recent years...

Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture

Wei Zhang⁎, Taylor H. Ricketts, Claire Kremen, Karen Carney, Scott M. Swinton Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039, United States Conservation Science Program, World Wildlife Fund — U.S., Washington, DC 20037, United States Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, United ...

Rethinking ecosystem services to better address and navigate cultural values

Ecosystem services

Humans have always depended on nature for environmental assets like clean water, nutrient cycling and soil formation. These have been called by different names through human history, but are presently gaining global attention as 'ecosystem services'. Gretchen Daily defines ecosystem services as " the conditions and processes through which natural ecosystems, and the species that make them up, s...