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 concept of “place” links people to their environment and is foundational to disciplines
such as geography, environmental psychology, and urban studies. With growth in …

Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment.
Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and …

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

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 …

Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental
management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few …

Today, various methods are applied to analyze the data collected through participatory
map**, including public participation GIS (PPGIS), participatory GIS (PGIS), and collecting …

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 …

Integrating cultural dimensions into the ecosystem service framework is essential for
appraising non-material benefits stemming from different human–environment interactions …

Spatially explicit understanding of the delivery of multiple ecosystem services (ES) from
global to local scales is currently limited. New studies analysing the simultaneous provision …