Urban flooding has become a serious issue in most Chinese cities due to rapid urbanization
and extreme weather, as evidenced by severe events in Bei**g (2012), Ningbo (2013) …

Much previous research has problematized the use of a binary urban–rural distinction to
describe human settlement patterns in and around cities. Peri-urban zones, on the edge of …

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 …

This paper explores spiritual and aesthetic cultural values associated with ecosystems. We
argue that these values are not best captured by instrumental or consequentialist thinking …

Research Highlights: This review gives an overview of existing literature on the emerging
topic of human wellbeing-forest contact nexus and provides a preliminary framework linking …

Valuation that focuses only on individual values evades the substantial collective and
intersubjective meanings, significance and value from ecosystems. Shared, plural and …

In this paper we aim to establish a conceptual and practical framework for investigating
sense of place as a category of cultural ecosystem services, drawing upon transdisciplinary …

It is increasingly argued that preferences and values for complex goods such as ecosystem
services are not pre-formed but need to be generated through a process of deliberation and …

Integrating cultural ecosystem services into decision-making has been under-considered
due to a number of key methodological gaps. The multidisciplinary demand of effective …

“To bring about a deep and lasting transformation in the way people interact with one
another and with nature, we must come together around a shared understanding, a shared …