Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Ecosystem services: a gender perspective The issue of gender and sustainability has mainly been approached from two different perspectives: the different role of women and men in contribut...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies Despite its popularity, the intuitive definition of 'ES trade-offs' and its antonym 'ES synergies' lack conceptual clarity. When moving from theore...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Public goods Public goods represent a particularly complex category of environmental resources. The increasing importance of the concept of public goods in nati...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Ecosystem services and transdisciplinarity Similar to related approaches such as post-normal science, citizens science, participatory approaches, transdisciplinarity (TD) goes beyond multi- ...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Ecosystem services and social justice Understanding how changes in ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC) impact on issues related to competitiveness and social justice....
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Ecosystem services and resilience This synthesis paper discusses the development of this concept across disciplines and how ES and NC concepts may be integrated into resilience thin...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Indicators for ecosystem services An indicator is a quantitative measure which represents a complex system or phenomenon. Indicators are key elements in policies for goal formulatio...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Human well-being Human well-being (HWB) is a central component of the ecosystem services (ES) framework and in fact its major endpoint in terms of what the ES conce...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Nature-based solutions The idea of 'nature-based solutions' (NbS) is now being used to reframe policy debates on biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and ...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Ecosystem services and human health Synthesis paper on ecosystem services and human health. There may be scope for OpenNESS to demonstrate a benefit of the ecosystem services and nat...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Effectiveness The ultimate goal for managing ecosystem services is contributing to human well-being. To analyse how this goal can effectively be achieved is a ma...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Good governance Governance of ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC) is one of the four major challenges addressed by OpenNESS. The term governance indic...
