Abstract Changes in land use and ecosystem services influence each other and such
changes have consequences for human wellbeing. In this paper, we review the research …

Monitoring and evaluation are central to ensuring that innovative, multi-scale, and
interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability are effective. The development of relevant …

Relational values—as preferences, principles and virtues about human-nature relationships—
have attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. The term has been used to include …

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 …

People depend on functioning ecosystems, which provide benefits that support human
existence and wellbeing. The relationship between people and nature has been …

Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a
normative goal in fields as diverse as the economy, national security, personal development …

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 …

We review the ecological and socio-economic impacts of the catastrophic dam failure in
Mariana, Brazil. Tailing management practices by Samarco mining company ultimately …

Many conservation plans remain unimplemented, in part because of insufficient
consideration of the social processes that influence conservation decisions. Complementing …

The ecosystem services (ES) framework was developed to articulate and measure the
benefits humans receive from ecosystems. Cultural ecosystem services (CES), usually …