A5047258935- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Finance, Taxation, and Governance
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture
- Regional resilience and development
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
2016-2024
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
2015-2024
University of Oxford
2014-2016
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2011-2015
Basque Centre for Climate Change
2014
Universidade Federal Fluminense
2014
University of East Anglia
2014
Center for International Forestry Research
2014
University of Exeter
2014
Ikerbasque
2014
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different often conflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for inclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) decision making, as well broad methodological steps doing so. While developed within context Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach more widely applicable initiatives at knowledge–policy interface, which require a pluralistic recognizing diversity values. We argue that...
A cornerstone of environmental policy is the debate over protecting nature for humans’ sake (instrumental values) or nature’s (intrinsic (1). We propose that focusing only on instrumental intrinsic values may fail to resonate with views personal and collective well-being, “what right,” regard environment. Without complementary attention other ways value expressed realized by people, such a focus inadvertently promote worldviews at odds fair desirable futures. It time engage seriously third...
Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few studies coped with the social-cultural dimension of ecosystem services, despite being considered a research priority. We examined how bundles trade-offs emerge from diverging social preferences toward services delivered by various types ecosystems in Spain. conducted 3,379 direct face-to-face questionnaires eight different...
Cities are a key nexus of the relationship between people and nature huge centers demand for ecosystem services also generate extremely large environmental impacts. Current projections rapid expansion urban areas present fundamental challenges opportunities to design more livable, healthy resilient cities (e.g. adaptation climate change effects). We results an analysis benefits in areas. Empirical analyses included estimates monetary from based on data 25 USA, Canada, China. Our show that...
In the last decade a growing number of environmental scientists have advocated economic valuation ecosystem services as pragmatic short-term strategy to communicate value biodiversity in language that reflects dominant political and views. This paper revisits controversy on light two aspects are often neglected ongoing debates. First, role particular institutional setup which policy governance is currently embedded shaping outcomes. Second, broader sociopolitical processes governed expansion...
Although conservation efforts have sometimes succeeded in meeting environmental goals at the expense of equity considerations, changing context and a growing body evidence increasingly suggest that considerations should be integrated into planning implementation. However, this approach is often perceived to odds with prevailing focus on economic efficiency characterizes many payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes. Drawing from examples across literature, we show how impacts PES can...
Abstract In this commentary we critically discuss the suitability of payments for ecosystem services and most important challenges they face. While such instruments can play a role in improving environmental governance, argue that over‐reliance on as win‐win solutions might lead to ineffective outcomes, similar earlier experience with integrated conservation development projects. Our objective is raise awareness, particularly among policy makers practitioners, about limitations encourage...
Mounting research highlights the contribution of ecosystem services provided by urban forests to quality life in cities, yet these are rarely explicitly considered environmental policy targets. We quantify regulating and evaluate their comply with targets air climate change mitigation municipality Barcelona, Spain. apply i-Tree Eco model biophysical monetary terms "air purification," "global regulation," disservice pollution" associated biogenic emissions. Our results show that abate...
We are increasingly confronted with severe social and economic impacts of environmental degradation all over the world. From a valuation perspective, problems conflicts originate from trade-offs between values. The urgency importance to integrate nature's diverse values in decisions actions stand out more than ever. Valuation, its broad sense 'assigning importance', is inherently part most on natural resource land use. Scholars different traditions -while moving heuristic interdisciplinary...
Gómez-Baggethun, E., E. Corbera, and V. Reyes-García. 2013. Traditional ecological knowledge global environmental change: research findings policy implications. Ecology Society 18(4): 72. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06288-180472
Arias-Arévalo, P., B. Martín-López, and E. Gómez-Baggethun. 2017. Exploring intrinsic, instrumental, relational values for sustainable management of social-ecological systems. Ecology Society 22(4):43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09812-220443
Abstract Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose of nature are acted on. A better understanding how why is (under)valued more urgent than ever 4 . Notwithstanding...
Kremer, P., Z. Hamstead, D. Haase, T. McPhearson, N. Frantzeskaki, E. Andersson, Kabisch, Larondelle, Lorance Rall, A. Voigt, F. Baró, C. Bertram, Gómez-Baggethun, R. Hansen, Kaczorowska, J.-H. Kain, J. Kronenberg, Langemeyer, S. Pauleit, K. Rehdanz, M. Schewenius, van Ham, Wurster, and Elmqvist. 2016. Key insights for the future of urban ecosystem services research. Ecology Society 21(2):29.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08445-210229