Image: Integrated Assessment and Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Guidelines and Experiences As the ecosystem service concept has become more widely recognised, so the number of biophysical, socio-cultural and monetary methods available to ...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Bundles of ecosystem services Multifunctionality is also gradually being acknowledged at the conceptual level in several land-use policies, such as spatial planning, water manag...
Image: OpenNESS Glossary This glossary was developed to provide some working definitions of terms related to ecosystem services and natural capital and their applications s...
Image: OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Sustainable ecosystem management Sustainable Ecosystem Management (SEM) is one of the 'four challenges' for ecosystem services (ES) addressed by OpenNESS; the others relate to huma...
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 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 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 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...
