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Quick Guide to Eliciting Demand for Ecosystem Services

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This summary document provides an overview of the eight-step framework for eliciting demand for ecosystem services put forth by the OPERAs Exemplars in the full guidance document, Eliciting Demand for Ecosystem Services: Results and User Guidance from the OPERAs Demand Synthesis Working Group. The full guidance document is available at: http://www.oppla.eu/product/17515

Advantages:

  • Understanding the ecosystem services that stakeholders value and demand can help illustrate conservation and education priorities, raise awareness of the importance of ecosystem services, and inform better policy and practice.

Partners:

  • Sibyl Brunner & Adrienne Gret-Regamey, ETZ Zurich (OPERAs Swiss Alps Exemplar)
  • Anja Liski, University of Edinburgh (OPERAs Scotland Exemplar)
  • Inês Rosario & Margarida Santos-Reis, University of Lisbon (OPERAs Montado Exemplar)
  • Apostol Dyankov & Raina Popova, WWF Bulgaria (OPERAs Danube Exemplar) 
  • José Lascurain, SGM SL (OPERAs Barcelona Exemplar)
  • Astrid van Teeffelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (OPERAs European Exemplar)

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  • Free, no licence

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  • Concept only