We describe and reflect on seven recurring critiques of the concept of ecosystem services
and respective counter‐arguments. First, the concept is criticized for being anthropocentric …

Conventional approaches to natural resource management are increasingly challenged by
environmental problems that are embedded in highly complex systems with profound …

Formal models are commonly used in natural resource management (NRM) to study human-
environment interactions and inform policy making. In the majority of applications, human …

There is emerging agreement that sustainability challenges require new ways of knowledge
production and decision-making. One key aspect of sustainability science, therefore, is the …

Transdisciplinarity has a long history of academic discourse. Promoted as an adequate
scientific response to pressing societal problems like climate change, it has recently …

Ecosystem services research has become a major academic field, drawing in various
academic disciplines, perspectives, and research approaches. The multifaceted concept of …

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Responding to global change represents an unprecedented challenge for society. Decision
makers tend to address this challenge by framing adaptation as a decision problem …

Ecological economics has been repeatedly described as transdiciplinary and open to
including everything from positivism to relativism. I argue for a revision and rejection of this …

While economists have been contributing to the discussion of various aspects of
sustainability for decades, it is just recently that the term “sustainability economics” was used …