Sander Jacobs

Biographic Data

ID6839847
NAMESander Jacobs
GIVEN NAMESSander
FAMILY NAMEJacobs
SIGNATUREJACOBS S
AFFILIATIONSResearch Institute for Nature and Forest
ORCID0000-0003-4674-4817
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • 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…

  • Science on ecosystems and people to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

    Open AccessMatthias Schröter, Marta Berbés‐Blázquez et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2023

    In December 2022, members of the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) (https://www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/) to guide international biodiversity conservation efforts until 2030 in order to be able to live ‘in harmony with nature’ by 2050. This framework addresses the implementation gap left after the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, which were the previous global instrument for mainstreami…

  • Lost in implementation? A field study of the uptake of the ‘green infrastructure’ term and concept in urban policies

    Open AccessMichael Leone, Ieva Misiūnė et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2023

    With growing urban populations and increasing demands for more liveable, healthy and resilient cities, green infrastructure (GI) emerged over the last decade as a strategy to improve the quality of life in urban areas, delivering ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits. To reach the European Union’s political ambitions, it is vital that the concept and its content are used consistently and coherently from national to local scale. Regardi…

  • Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice

    Open AccessMarije Schaafsma, Seongho Ahn et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2023

    The Values Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that multiple valuation methods and approaches exist to assess diverse value types. The evidence is based on the largest review of academic valuation studies on nature to date, developed for the Values Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). We evaluate studies acco…

  • The pitfalls of plural valuation

    Open AccessSander Jacobs, Eszter Kelemen et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2023Cited by: 1References: 13

    This paper critically examines the current political context in which valuation studies of nature are undertaken. It challenges the belief that somehow, more and technically better valuation will drive the societal change toward more just and sustainable futures. Instead, we argue that current and proposed valuation practices risk to continue to overrepresent the values of those who hold power and dominate the valuation space, and to perpetuate t…

  • Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature

    Open AccessMette Termansen, Sander Jacobs et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2023Cited by: 2References: 5

    The Values Assessment (VA) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that while a wide range of valuation methods exist to include nature's values in diverse decision-making contexts, uptake of these methods remains limited. Building on the VA, this paper reviews five critical steps in the evaluation of project or policy proposals that can improve the inclusion of nature’s values in decisions. F…

  • The programme on ecosystem change and society (Pecs) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus

    Open AccessAlbert V Norström, Bina Agarwal et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) was established in 2011, and is now one of the major international social-ecological systems (SES) research networks. During this time, SES research has undergone a phase of rapid growth and has grown into an influential branch of sustainability science. In this Perspective, we argue that SES research has also deepened over the past decade, and helped to shed light on key dimensions of SES dyna…

  • Advancing research on ecosystem service bundles for comparative assessments and synthesis

    Open AccessMegan Meacham, Albert V Norström et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    Social-ecological interactions have been shown to generate interrelated and reoccurring sets of ecosystem services, also known as ecosystem service bundles. Given the potential utility of the bundles concept, along with the recent surge in interest it is timely to reflect on the concept, its current use and potential for the future. Based on our ecosystem service bundle experience, expertise, and ecosystem service bundle analyses, we have found c…

  • Improving collaboration between ecosystem service communities and the Ipbes science-policy platform

    Open AccessCarla-Leanne Washbourne, Nicolas Dendoncker et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2020

    The end of the first working program of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provided an opportunity to draw lessons from its work. This perspective paper captures insights from ecosystem services (ES) researchers and practitioners, largely drawing from the European context (referred to herein as ‘ES community’), on this key science–policy interface. We synthesize reflections from a workshop…

  • Indicators for relational values of nature’s contributions to good quality of life: The Ipbes approach for Europe and Central Asia

    Open AccessMatthias Schröter, Esra Başak et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2020

    Relational values are values of desirable relationships between people and nature and among people (through nature). We report on the approach to capture relational values of nature’s contributions to people in the regional assessment for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). We present a framework considering indicators along four relational value dimensions about…

  • The science-policy interface on ecosystems and people: Challenges and opportunities

    Open AccessPatricia Balvanera, Sander Jacobs et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2020

    Introduction \nThe complex links and feedbacks between ecosystems and people are now sharply in focus. Our growing understandings of the complex relations between ecosystems and people, the social and ecological drivers of changes in nature, and the different dimensions of a good quality of life, from local to global scales, have made these interdependencies ever more visible (IPBES 2019; Díaz et al. 2019). Furthermore, recent studies have reveal…

  • Keep it real: Selecting realistic sets of urban green space indicators

    Open AccessRaïsa Carmen, Sander Jacobs et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    With increasing urbanisation, urban green spaces are expected to be crucial for urban resilience and sustainability, through the delivery of ecological, economic and social benefits. In practice, however, planning, management and evaluation of urban green spaces are rarely structured and evidence-based. This represents a missed opportunity to account for, track and foster the multiple benefits that green spaces are expected to deliver. To gain in…

  • Measuring ecosystem multifunctionality across scales

    Open AccessLisanne Hölting, Sander Jacobs et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Multifunctionality refers to the capacity of an area to supply multiple ecosystem functions or services. While many conceptual and methodological advances have focused on defining and quantifying multifunctionality, the challenge of dealing with cross-scale dynamics of multifunctionality remains open. This study proposes a new way of measuring multifunctionality across spatial scales, illustrated with a European-wide dataset of 18 ecosystem servi…

  • Synthesizing plausible futures for biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe and Central Asia using scenario archetypes

    Open AccessPaula A Harrison, Zuzana V Harmáčková et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2019Cited by: 3

    Harrison, P. A., Z. V. Harmáčková, A. Aloe Karabulut, L. Brotons, M. Cantele, J. Claudet, R. W. Dunford, A. Guisan, I. P. Holman, S. Jacobs, K. Kok, A. Lobanova, A. Morán-Ordóñez, S. Pedde, C. Rixen, F. Santos-Martín, M. A. Schlaepfer, C. Solidoro, A. Sonrel, and J. Hauck. 2019. Synthesizing plausible futures for biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe and Central Asia using scenario archetypes. Ecology and Society 24(2):27. https://doi.org…

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

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

  • 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

  • Participatory identification and selection of ecosystem services: Building on Field Experiences

    Open AccessFanny Boeraeve, Marc Dufrene et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2018Cited by: 1

    Boeraeve, F., M. Dufrêne, R. De Vreese, S. Jacobs, N. Pipart, F. Turkelboom, W. Verheyden, and N. Dendoncker. 2018. Participatory identification and selection of ecosystem services: building on field experiences. Ecology and Society 23(2):27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10087-230227

  • Nature‐Based Solutions for Europe's Sustainable Development

    Open AccessJoachim Maes, Sander JacobsARTICLEConservation Letters2017

    Pursuing economic targets of job creation, growth, and innovation while tackling global environmental challenges, has long been seen as impossible. However, any long‐term economic competitiveness and security depends on the extent to which natural resources are used sustainably. Therefore, the European Union is investing in nature‐based solutions to achieve this double goal. The difference between the prevailing economic model and a sustainable r…

  • Interconnected place-based social–ecological research can inform global sustainability

    Open AccessPatricia Balvanera, Rafael Calderon-Contreras et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2017Cited by: 19References: 13

  • A new valuation school: Integrating diverse values of nature in resource and land use decisions

    Open AccessSander Jacobs, Nicolas Dendoncker et al.ARTICLEEcosystem Services2016

    We are increasingly confronted with severe social and economic impacts of environmental degradation all over the world. From a valuation perspective, environmental problems and conflicts originate from trade-offs between values. The urgency and importance to integrate nature's diverse values in decisions and actions stand out more than ever. Valuation, in its broad sense of ‘assigning importance’, is inherently part of most decisions on natural r…

  • Mapping wetland loss and restoration potential in Flanders (Belgium): An Ecosystem Service Perspective

    Open AccessKris Decleer, Jared Wouters et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2016Cited by: 2

    Decleer, K., J. Wouters, S. Jacobs, J. Staes, T. Spanhove, P. Meire, and R. Van Diggelen. 2016. Mapping wetland loss and restoration potential in Flanders (Belgium): an ecosystem service perspective. Ecology and Society 21(4):46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08964-210446