Erik Gómez-Baggethun

Biographic Data

ID3703933
NAMEErik Gómez-Baggethun
GIVEN NAMESErik
FAMILY NAMEGómez-Baggethun
SIGNATUREGOMEZ-BAGGETHUN E
AFFILIATIONSNorwegian Institute for Nature Research
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS63
TOTAL CITATIONS925
AUTHOR COUNT63
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX15

  • Labour productivity gains or offshoring? Implications for post-growth proposals on the future of work

    Open AccessLukas Godé, Simon Mair et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2026

    Two visions prevail about the future of work in sustainable post-growth economies. According to the first, labour productivity gains resulting from technological development will enable to work less. The second contends instead that such gains are not always desirable and could be constrained by a shift towards less polluting production, potentially resulting in more work. Yet, conventional measures of labour productivity on which these proposals…

  • Beyond green growth: Mapping sustainability pathways for rural transformations in Norway

    Open AccessElisabeth Veivåg Helseth, Hildegunn Nordtug et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2025References: 11

    Competing sustainability pathways reflect different values and preferred solutions in response to the climate and environmental crisis. The recent Values Assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) states that mobilizing a diversity of sustainability-aligned values (such as care and reciprocity) are key to sustainability transformations. This paper examines the role of values and live…

  • Unequal exchange of labour and global justice: Principles for a fair international distribution of work

    Open AccessLukas Godé, Arild Vatn et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2025References: 10

  • Business-as-usual trends will largely miss 2030 global conservation targets

    Open AccessIgnacio Palomo, Alberto González-García et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2025Cited by: 1References: 90

    To address climate change and global biodiversity loss, the world must hit three important international conservation targets by 2030: protect 30% of terrestrial and marine areas, halt and reverse forest loss, and restore 350 Mha of degraded and deforested landscapes. Here, we (1) provide estimates of the gaps between these globally agreed targets and business-as-usual trends; (2) identify examples of rapid past trend-shifts towards achieving the…

  • Urban resilience through green infrastructure: A framework for policy analysis applied to Madrid, Spain

    Open AccessMarta Suárez, Amaya M Rieiro-Díaz et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2024

    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 green infrastructure policies contribute to urban resilience and discuss barriers and opportunities for implementation. The conceptual framework is designed to analyse how resilience is fostered through six resilience factors: dive…

  • Balancing investments in ecosystem services for sustainable forest governance

    Open AccessElisabeth Veivåg Helseth, Pål Vedeld et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2024References: 9

    Economic instruments like subsidies and tax reliefs are widely used to promote forest ecosystem services. However, such instruments typically target services traded in markets, whereas non-market services are declining worldwide. With Norway as a case, we map economic instruments used in Norwegian forest governance and examine how they promote or constrain forests' capacity to provide different ecosystem services. Data was collected from a review…

  • Defining a safe and just operating space for the Norwegian economy

    Open AccessThomas Røkås, Erik Gomez‐baggethun et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2024Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Sustainability-aligned values: Exploring the Concept, Evidence, and Practice

    Open AccessAdrian Martins, Patricia Balvanera et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2024

    Modern environmental thought has always involved normative claims about the values needed for sustainability. This has often played out in debates between proponents of anthropocentric and ecocentric ways of valuing nature. More recently, there has been a flourishing of interest in relational and pluricentric ways of valuing nature, coinciding with a “turn to values” in the sustainability literature. In this paper we explore the meaning and use o…

  • Diverse values of nature for sustainability

    Open AccessUnai Pascual, Patricia Balvanera et al.ARTICLENature2023

    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 barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…

  • Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value

    Open AccessThomas P Hahn, Giles B Sioen et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2023References: 6

    Recently two distinctly different conceptualisations of insurance value of biodiversity/ ecosystems have been developed. The ecosystem framing addresses the full resilience value without singling out subjective risk preferences. Conversely, the economic framing focuses exactly on this subjective value of risk aversion, implying that the insurance value is zero for risk neutral persons. Here we analyse the differences conceptually and empirically,…

  • Value asymmetries in Norwegian forest governance: The role of institutions and power dynamics

    Open AccessElisabeth Veivåg Helseth, Paul Vedeld et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2023Cited by: 7References: 2

    We draw on institutional and ecological economics to understand the role of social preferences, institutional arrangements, and power dynamics in mobilizing or restraining ecosystem services and values in Norwegian forest governance. Specifically, we i) elicit local people's preferences over forest ecosystem services and values, ii) analyze how perceptions of forest values vary across stakeholders, and iii) examine how participation is enabled by…

  • Rethinking work for a just and sustainable future

    Open AccessErik Gomez‐baggethun, Erik Gómez-BaggethunARTICLEEcological Economics2022Cited by: 8References: 13

    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 as a ‘natural’ configuration of time. However, work and working time have been fiercely contested phenomena and have taken many different forms throughout history as they were reshaped by technological development, social struggl…

  • Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits

    Open AccessErik Gomez‐baggethun, Erik Gómez-BaggethunARTICLEPolitical Geography2022References: 16

  • Is there a future for indigenous and local knowledge

    Open AccessErik Gomez‐baggethun, Erik Gómez-BaggethunARTICLEThe Journal of Peasant Studies2022Cited by: 11References: 75

    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 future. This paper examines historical drivers behind the loss of ILK and discusses possibilities for its survival and revitalization. I first examine long-term impacts of modernization and unfolding capitalism on ILK. Next, I d…

  • Contact with blue-green spaces during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown beneficial for mental health

    Open AccessSarai Pouso, Ángel Borja et al.ARTICLEThe Science of The Total…2021

  • Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change

    Open AccessIgnacio Palomo, Bruno Locatelli et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Beyond ecosystem services and nature's contributions: Is it time to leave utilitarian environmentalism behind

    Open AccessRoldan Muradian, Erik Gomez‐baggethun et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2021Cited by: 30References: 25

    The Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) approach, developed as theoretical backdrop for the assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), aims to provide a more inclusive discourse in sustainability science, while addressing some of the limitations of the ecosystem services (ES) framework. Some critical initial reactions to the NCP approach have revolved around the costs of departi…

  • Can cultural ecosystem services contribute to satisfying basic human needs? A case study from the Lofoten archipelago, northern Norway

    Open AccessBjørn P Kaltenborn, John D C Linnell et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2020

    There is gradual recognition that cultural ecosystem services are critical building blocks for human well-being. Cultural and provisioning services are often intertwined, difficult to separate, and play salient roles in maintaining local identities. However, multiple studies assume links between cultural ecosystem services and human well-being, without quantifying relationships. We surveyed a representative sample of the population in the Lofoten…

  • Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway

    Open AccessMarta Suárez, David N Barton et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2020Cited by: 10References: 7

    Urban and peri-urban green space provides multiple recreation opportunities with important benefits for physical and psychological well-being, but access to these benefits is often unequally distributed. Various methodologies to assess outdoor recreation opportunities exist, but they rarely take into consideration dimensions of environmental justice. The aim of this paper is to map and assess nature-based outdoor recreation opportunities with a f…

  • More is more: Scaling political ecology within limits to growth

    Open AccessErik Gomez‐baggethun, Erik Gómez-BaggethunARTICLEPolitical Geography2020Cited by: 11References: 27

  • The means determine the end – Pursuing integrated valuation in practice

    Open AccessSander Jacobs, Berta Martín-López et al.ARTICLEEcosystem Services2018

  • Widening the Evaluative Space for Ecosystem Services: A Taxonomy of Plural Values and Valuation Methods

    Open AccessPaola Arias-Arévalo, Erik Gomez‐baggethun et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Values2018

    Researchers working in the field of ecosystem services (ES) have long acknowledged the importance of recognising multiple values in ecosystems and biodiversity. Yet the operationalisation of value pluralism in ES assessments remains largely elusive. The aim of this research is to present a taxonomy of values and valuation methods to widen the evaluative space for ES. First, we present our preanalytic positions in regards to the values and valuati…

  • When we cannot have it all: Ecosystem services trade-offs in the context of spatial planning

    Open AccessFrancis Turkelboom, Michael Leone et al.ARTICLEEcosystem Services2018

  • Unraveling heterogeneity in the importance of ecosystem services: Individual Views of Smallholders

    Open AccessAlejandra Tauro, Erik Gomez‐baggethun et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2018Cited by: 2

    Tauro, A., E. Gómez-Baggethun, E. García-Frapolli, E. Lazos Chavero, and P. Balvanera. 2018. Unraveling heterogeneity in the importance of ecosystem services: individual views of smallholders. Ecology and Society 23(4):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10457-230411

  • Assessing the Potential of Regulating Ecosystem Services as Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Areas

    Open AccessFrancesc Baró, Erik Gomez‐baggethun et al.CHAPTERNature-Based Solutions to Climate…2017

    Mounting research assesses the provision of regulating ecosystem services by green infrastructure in urban areas, but the extent to which these services can offer effective nature-based solutions for addressing urban climate change-related challenges is rarely considered. In this chapter, we synthesize knowledge from assessments of urban green infrastructure carried out in Europe and beyond to evaluate the potential contribution of regulating eco…