• Integrated assessment and valuation of ecosystem services. Guidelines and experiences 

      Dunford, Robert; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Jacobs, Sander; Kelemen, Eszter; Martín-López, Berta (Research report, 2017)
      As the ecosystem service concept has become more widely recognised, so the number of biophysical, socio-cultural and monetary methods available to assess ecosystem services has increased. There is relatively little guidance ...
    • Is there a future for indigenous and local knowledge? 

      Gomez-Baggethun, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      By the late twentieth century, many doubted whether Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) would survive the millennium, but a surge in their recognition and new insight on their resilience open new perspectives about their ...
    • Life at a leisurely pace? : environmental impacts of leisure and work time reduction in Norway 

      Christiansen, Amalie Rossland (Master thesis, 2021)
      Consumption is the single largest contributor to global environmental degradation. Because work drives consumption, scholars have proposed work time reduction (WTR) as a policy to reduce environmental pressure, while ...
    • Local Perceptions of Ecosystem Services Across Multiple Ecosystem Types in Spain 

      García-Llorente, Marina; Castro, Antonio J.; Quintas-Soriano, Cristina; Oteros-Rozas, Elisa; Iniesta-Arandia, Irene; González, José A.; García Del Amo, David; Hernández-Arroyo, Marta; Casado-Arzuaga, Izaskun; Palomo, Ignacio; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Onaindia, Miren; Montes, Carlos; Martín-López, Berta (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Combining socio-cultural valuations of ecosystem services with ecological and monetary assessments is critical to informing decision making with an integrative and multi-pronged approach. This study examined differences ...
    • Long-term community responses to droughts in the early modern period: the case study of Terrassa, Spain 

      Grau-Satorras, Mar; Otero, Iago; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Reyes-García, Victoria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      New challenges posed by global environmental change have motivated scholars to pay growing attention to historical long-term strategies to deal with climate extremes. We aim to understand long-term trends in community ...
    • Multi-criteria decision analysis and cost-benefit analysis: comparing alternative frameworks for integrated valuation of ecosystem services 

      Saarikoski, Heli; Mustajoki, Jyri; Barton, David Nicholas; Geneletti, Davide; Langemeyer, Johannes; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Marttunen, Mika; Antunes, Paula; Keune, Hans; Santos, Rui (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods has been promoted as an alternative approach to monetary economic valuation of ecosystem services in Cost-Benefit Analysis framework (CBA). We discuss the potential of MCDA ...
    • Multilevel processes and cultural adaptation: examples from past and present small-scale societies 

      Reyes-Garcia, Victoria; Balbo, Andrea Luca; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Gueze, Maximilien; Mesoudi, Alex; Richerson, Peter J.; Rubio-Campillo, Xavier; Ruiz-Mallén, Isabel; Shennan, Stephen. J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The last two decades have seen a proliferation of research frameworks that emphasise the importance of understanding adaptive processes that happen at different levels. We contribute to this growing body of literature by ...
    • Nature’s rights in Colombia : an exploration of legal efforts to secure justice for humans and nature 

      Richardson, Whitney Paige (Master thesis, 2020)
      Nature’s rights approaches are being developed as an alternative legal means to secure justice for nature and, oftentimes, for humans, too. As a nascent phenomenon, most studies examine nature’s rights as an eco-centric ...
    • Off-stage ecosystem service burdens: A blind spot for global sustainability 

      Pascual, Unai; Palomo, Ignacio; Adams, William M.; Chan, Kai M A; Daw, Tim M; Garmendia, Eneko; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; de Groot, Rudolf S.; Mace, Georgina M.; Martín-López, Berta; Phelps, Jacob (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The connected nature of social-ecological systems has never been more apparent than in today's globalized world. The ecosystem service framework and associated ecosystem assessments aim to better inform the science–policy ...
    • Operationalising ecosystem services: advancing knowledge on natural and cultural capital 

      Furman, Eeva; Barton, David Nicholas; Harrison, Paula A.; Kopperoinen, Leena; Mederly, Peter; Perez-Soba, Marta; Potschin, Marion; Saarikoski, Heli; Schleyer, Christian; Smith, Alison; Watt, Allan; Young, Juliette; Kelemen, Eszter; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik (Chapter, 2018)
      contact with nature induces many different feelings, both positive and negative. on the negative side, people can suffer from allergies from flowering plants, many insect species can cause physical harm or spread disease ...
    • Resilience of small-scale societies: a view from drylands 

      Balbo, Andrea Luca; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Salpeteur, Matthieu; Puy, Arnald; Biargetti, Stefano; Scheffran, Jürgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      To gain insights on long-term social-ecological resilience, we examined adaptive responses of small-scale societies to dryland-related hazards in different regions and chronological periods, spanning from the mid-Holocene ...
    • Rethinking work for a just and sustainable future 

      Gomez-Baggethun, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Except for sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than on any other activity. Many people take for granted the centrality of work in society, conceiving the prevailing 40 h workweeks in high-income countries ...
    • Selecting methods for ecosystem service assessment: A decision tree approach 

      Harrison, Paula A.; Dunford, Robert; Barton, David Nicholas; Kelemen, Eszter; Martín-López, Berta; Norton, Lisa; Termansen, Mette; Saarikoski, Heli; Hendriks, Kees; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Czúcz, Balint; García-Llorente, Marina; Howard, David; Jacobs, Sander; Karlsen, Martin; Kopperoinen, Leena; Madsen, Andes; Rusch, Graciela; van Eupen, Michiel; Verweij, Peter; Smith, Ron; Tuomasjukka, Diana; Zulian, Grazia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    • Stakeholders’ perspectives on the operationalisation of the ecosystem service concept: results from 27 case studies 

      Dick, Jan; Turkelboom, Francis; Woods, Helen; Iniesta-Arandia, Irene; Primmer, Eeva; Saarela, Sanna-Riikka; Bezak, Peter; Mederly, Peter; Leone, Michael; Verheyden, Wim; Kelemen, Eszter; Hauck, Jennifer; Andrews, Chris; Antunes, Paula; Aszalós, Réka; Baró, Francesc; Barton, David Nicholas; Berry, Pam; Bugter, Rob; Carvalho, Laurence; Czúcz, Balint; Dunford, Rob; Blancos, Gemma Garcia; Geamănăt, Nicoleta; Giucăt, Relu; Grizzetti, Bruna; Izakovičováv, Zita; Kertész, Miklós l; Kopperoinen, Leena; Langemeyer, Johannes; Lapola, David Montenegro; Liquete, Camino; Luque, Sandra; Pastur, Guillermo Martinéz; Martín-López, Berta; Mukhopadhyay, Raktima; Niemela, Jari; Odee, David; Peri, Pablo Luis; Pinho, Patricia; Blumentrath, Stefan; Fongar, Claudia; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Gundersen, Vegard; Haavardsholm, Oscar; Köhler, Berit; Lindhjem, Henrik; Nowell, Megan Sara; Often, Anders; Reinvang, Rasmus; Rusch, Graciela; Stange, Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    • Targeting best agricultural practices to enhance ecosystem services in European mountains 

      Bernués, A.; Tenza-Peral, A.; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Clemetsen, Morten; Eik, Lars Olav; Martín-Collado, D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Agri-environmental policies in Europe are failing to sufficiently address ongoing environmental degradation, biodiversity decline, climate impacts, and societal demands for sustainability. To reverse this, policymakers, ...
    • The Trouble with Anthropocentric Hubris, with Examples from Conservation 

      Washington, Haydn; Piccolo, John; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Kopnina, Helen; Alberro, Heather (Journal article, 2021)
      Anthropocentrism in Western (modern industrial) society is dominant, goes back hundreds of years, and can rightly be called ‘hubris’. It removes almost all moral standing from the nonhuman world, seeing it purely as a ...
    • Towards an Urban Resilience Index: A Case Study in 50 Spanish Cities 

      Suárez, Marta; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Benayas, Javier; Tilbury, Daniella (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Urbanization is a major driver of land use change and global environmental decline. With accelerated urbanization worldwide, it is essential to put in place new policies to conserve urban ecosystems, species and the services ...
    • Unraveling heterogeneity in the importance of ecosystem services: individual views of smallholders 

      Tautro, Alejandra; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Garcia-Frapolli, Eduardo; Chavero, Elena Lazos; Balvanera, Patricia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Stakeholder groups are not homogeneous across individuals and through time, especially in relation to the importance of ecosystem services. However, the approaches commonly used to characterize the average importance and ...
    • Urban gardeners in Oslo : an explorative study of their motivations and the perceived effects of gardening on quality of life 

      Hernandez Lasso, Carolina; Shabi, Rina Dula (Master thesis, 2019)
      Urban agriculture has been associated with social, emotional, health and mental health benefits. However, literature describing the relationship between garden participation and effects on quality of life has not been fully ...
    • Urban resilience through green infrastructure: A framework for policy analysis applied to Madrid, Spain 

      Suárez, Marta; Rieiro-Díaz, Amaya M.; Alba, David; Langemeyer, Johannes; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Ametzaga-Arregi, Ibone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Urban resilience and how to assess it have become main policy objectives in the face of accelerated climate and other global environmental change. We develop a conceptual framework and an assessment tool to analyse how ...