Highlights•Human–nature connections are receiving increasing attention in sustainability
science.•Relevant insights have been obtained in diverse disciplines, but integration is …

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are increasingly addressed in research, but conceptual
and methodological issues still limit their integration into management and decision-making …

Calls for humanity to 'reconnect to nature'have grown increasingly louder from both scholars
and civil society. Yet, there is relatively little coherence about what reconnecting to nature …

The burgeoning literature on sustainability transformation agrees that values play a key,
albeit unelucidated, role on the transformation research agenda. Recent literature linking …

Sustainable development is critical to ensure the future of humanity. Therefore, the
assessment and governance of sustainability becomes a central challenge our society is …

Mountain landscapes provide a variety of cultural ecosystem services (CES), but recent
developments such as land-use and climate changes, population growth or urbanization …

Despite arguments justifying the need to consider how cultural ecosystem services are
coproduced by humans and nature, there are currently few approaches for explaining the …

Ethics is a central and growing concern in all applications utilizing artificial intelligence (AI).
Earth observation (EO) and remote sensing (RS) research relies heavily on both big data …

The public justification for nature conservation currently rests on two pillars: hedonic
(instrumental) values, and moral values. Yet, these representations appear to do little …

The ecosystem services (ES) framework has potential to bring transdisciplinary teams
together to achieve societal goals. Some label ES as “boundary objects” that help integrate …