Background Individual subjective well-being (SWB) is essential for creating and maintaining
healthy, productive societies. The literature on SWB is vast and dispersed across multiple …

Nature contributes substantially to human well-being through its diverse material and
nonmaterial contributions. However, despite the growing literature on the nonmaterial …

Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning
(eg wood) and regulating (eg climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (eg recreation) …

Urban green and blue infrastructure (GBI) and associated ecosystem services (ES) are
increasingly recognized for their potential to address urban sustainability challenges. This …

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) refer to the nonmaterial benefits people obtain from
ecosystems, and they have direct influence on quality of life. Although the concept of CES …

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 …

Environmental degradation is increasing globally through direct anthropogenic
interventions, such as urbanisation and unsustainable land use, and human-induced …

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 …

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

The relationship between LUCC (land-use and land-cover change), ecosystem services and
human well-being is not only an important cross topic in studies of natural ecological and …