The importance of ecosystem services in coastal agricultural landscapes: Case study from the Costa Brava, Catalonia

How does the Ecological Well-Being of Urban and Rural Residents Change with Rural-Urban Land Conversion? The Case of Hubei, China

“…It confirms what previous studies have indicated: Changes in rural resident overall ecological well-being and in each constituent of ecological well-being are all greater than those of urban resident [29,49,51,80,83]. And transformation factors including age, education level as well as location have significant influence on both rural and urban resident ecological well-being but the degree of influence is different.…”

“…For example, different age groups have different anticipations when facing same environmental changes, more highly educated groups have better ability for livelihood selection and further environmental cognition [51,80]. In addition, an individual's preference for ecosystem services is affected by local environmental resources endowments to some extent [29]. Transformation factors could explain that why different people in same state have different levels of well-being.…”

Marine and Coastal Cultural Ecosystem Services: knowledge gaps and research priorities

“…Practical aspects such as accessibility or proximity to the study area and the expertise of authors may explain this lack of assessments (Liquete et al 2013). Another possible reason is that experts who could assess these CES are critical to the concept of ecosystem services, refusing to measure or place value on the benefits from nature (Silvertown 2015).…”

“…Assessments in our literature synthesis were mostly conducted in the Global North, with only a few assessments undertaken in the Global South (Fig. 8), and even fewer incorporating indigenous and local knowledge (Oleson et al 2015, Comberti et al 2015, Outeiro et al 2015a, Butler et al 2012, Sousa et al 2013. Thus, there is mainly a Western European and North American (Canada and USA) perspective on the non-material contributions of natural systems to human societies.…”

Sustainability and Competitiveness of Agriculture in Mountain Areas: A Willingness to Pay (WTP) Approach

“…The CVM elicits consumer preferences for goods and services that are not traded directly in the market [19]. In fact, in the last three decades, economists try to assess people's WTP for landscape quality and maintenance [20,21], and, more recently, also the issue of WTP for ecosystem services was explored by many authors [6,22,23] but less frequent for evaluation of mountain farm permanence [24]. The innovation of this work is the application of the CVM to the problem of Alpine pasture survival and the quantification of their value.…”