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 …

We review public participation GIS (PPGIS) and participatory GIS (PGIS) approaches for
ecosystem services to identify current and best practice. PPGIS/PGIS are spatially explicit …

The accurate identification of rural “production-living-ecological” space (PLES) is of great
significance for optimization of Chinese rural space. At present, there are some deficiencies …

Numerous studies underline the importance of immaterial benefits provided by ecosystems
and especially by cultural landscapes, which are shaped by intimate human–nature …

The inconsistency in methods to quantify and map ecosystem services challenges the
development of robust values of ecosystem services in national accounts and broader policy …

Despite the growing body of literature on ecosystem services, still many challenges remain
to structurally integrate ecosystem services in landscape planning, management and …

The urban dimension of ecosystem services (ES) is underexposed, while the importance of
ES for human well‐being is nowhere as evident as in cities. Urban challenges such as air …

Urbanisation patterns in Europe since the 1950s have resulted in a swath of low-density
discontinuous development, commonly called peri-urban areas. These areas are …

Landscapes differ in their capacities to provide ecosystem goods and services, which are
the benefits humans obtain from nature. Structures and functions of ecosystems needed to …

The evaluation of landscape services essentially deals with the complex and dynamic
relationships between humans and their environment. When it comes to landscape …