Theme 2 - Values and perceptions of ecosystem and landscape services
Theme coordinators Joke Luttik and Dolf de Groot

Research objective:
To quantify the importance (value) of ecosystem and landscape services and measure the added-value for people and the economy at different scale levels.

Key questions:

What are most appropriate economic and social valuation methods for ecosystem and landscape services, including the role and      perceptions of stakeholders?

How to make economic and social valuations of landscape and ecosystem services consistent and comparable?

How can standardized indicators (e.g. as in the “Kentallenboek”) help determine the value of E&LS and how can aggregation            steps be dealt with?

How can the health benefits of nature/green space in an urban residential context  be quantified and assessed?

How can values be captured “spatially” (e.g. through mapping) to address scaling issues and facilitate the use of E&LS in     (spatial) landscape planning and decision-making ?

What are the main bottlenecks in data availability and reliability and how can they be overcome?

Projects of Theme 2:   Mapping Ecosystem Services-Values and link with modeling Vacancy PhD  Aggregation of individual benefits of maintenance of or an improvement in landscape and nature quality: an empirical analysis SELS projects Arianne de Blaeij Landscape perceptions in relation to multifunctional agriculture Abco de Buck  “My Place to be”: European Databank with landscape-preferences Martin Goossen Improving GLAM [“BelevingsGIS], a first step Sjerp de Vries International Business Climate & Landscape Peter Veer

For the research projects view the SELS projects. On this page the project descriptions can be found as well. And or more information on the Themes, please view the presentations held during the parallell sessions at the SELS symposium on 8 November 2007. On the presentations page more presentations and info on the research projects can be found.