Narrative methods aim to understand and describe the importance of nature and its benefits to people with their own words. By using narrative methods we allow the research participants (residents of a certain place, users of a certain resource, or stakeholders of an issue) to articulate the plural and heterogeneous values of ecosystem services through their own stories and direct actions (both verbally and visually). Narrative methods usually collect qualitative data from individuals, but they can be also suitable to measure some aspects of human-nature relations in quantitative or semi-quantitative terms.
