Authors
Jan Dick, Francis Turkelboom, Helen Woods, Irene Iniesta-Arandia, Eeva Primmer, Sanna-Riikka Saarela, Peter Bezák, Peter Mederly, Michael Leone, Wim Verheyden, Eszter Kelemen, Jennifer Hauck, Chris Andrews, Paula Antunes, Réka Aszalós, Francesc Baró, David N Barton, Pam Berry, Rob Bugter, Laurence Carvalho, Bálint Czúcz, Rob Dunford, Gemma Garcia Blanco, Nicoleta Geamănă, Relu Giucă, Bruna Grizzetti, Zita Izakovičová, Miklós Kertész, Leena Kopperoinen, Johannes Langemeyer, David Montenegro Lapola, Camino Liquete, Sandra Luque, Guillermo Martínez Pastur, Berta Martin-Lopez, Raktima Mukhopadhyay, Jari Niemela, David Odee, Pablo Luis Peri, Patricia Pinho, Gleiciani Bürger Patrício-Roberto, Elena Preda, Joerg Priess, Christine Röckmann, Rui Santos, Diana Silaghi, Ron Smith, Angheluţă Vădineanu, Jan Tjalling van der Wal, Ildikó Arany, Ovidiu Badea, Györgyi Bela, Emil Boros, Magdalena Bucur, Stefan Blumentrath, Marta Calvache, Esther Carmen, Pedro Clemente, João Fernandes, Diogo Ferraz, Claudia Fongar, Marina García-Llorente, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Vegard Gundersen, Oscar Haavardsholm, Ágnes Kalóczkai, Thalma Khalalwe, Gabriella Kiss, Berit Köhler, Orsolya Lazányi, Eszter Lellei-Kovács, Rael Lichungu, Henrik Lindhjem, Charles Magare, Jyri Mustajoki, Charles Ndege, Megan Nowell, Sergi Nuss Girona, John Ochieng, Anders Often, Ignacio Palomo, György Pataki, Rasmus Reinvang, Graciela Rusch, Heli Saarikoski, Alison Smith, Emma Soy Massoni, Erik Stange, Nora Vågnes Traaholt, Ágnes Vári, Peter Verweij, Suvi Vikström, Vesa Yli-Pelkonen, Grazia Zulian
Publication date
2018/2/1
Journal
Ecosystem services
Volume
29
Pages
552-565
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
The ecosystem service (ES) concept is becoming mainstream in policy and planning, but operational influence on practice is seldom reported. Here, we report the practitioners’ perspectives on the practical implementation of the ES concept in 27 case studies. A standardised anonymous survey (n = 246), was used, focusing on the science-practice interaction process, perceived impact and expected use of the case study assessments. Operationalisation of the concept was shown to achieve a gradual change in practices: 13% of the case studies reported a change in action (e.g. management or policy change), and a further 40% anticipated that a change would result from the work. To a large extent the impact was attributed to a well conducted science-practice interaction process (>70%). The main reported advantages of the concept included: increased concept awareness and communication; enhanced …
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