Getting a measure of nature

We explore the concept of 'ecosystem services' as a way of understanding how particular relations between nature and society can be established and studied and as a potential integrating approach for interdisciplinary research. Given that something only becomes a 'service' within a particular, economically minded framework, the shift from thinking about 'ecosystems' to understanding 'ecosystem services' requires shifts in the form and content of scientific knowledge about perceived services. For those interested in the process of knowledge production, the rise in prominence of an ecosystem services approach affords the opportunity to ask questions about who will generate this knowledge and how it might relate to wider issues of sustainability decision-making. Thus, the concept is used here as an example of how we might move towards research that aims to understand the world from an integrated perspective and at the same time situates that research process in a sociopolitical context

Business · Context (archaeology · Ecosystem · Ecosystem services · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Knowledge management · Management science · Perspective (graphical · Process (computing · Service (business · Sociology · Sustainability · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Engineering · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Ecology · Marketing

• Balancing Ecosystem Services and Disservices

  Open Access•Tola Gemechu Ango, Lowe Börjeson et al.•Conservation Ecology•2014

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• Examining ecosystem services and disservices through deliberative socio-cultural valuation

  Open Access•Dalton Erick Baltazar, JC Labadz et al.•SN Social Sciences•2022

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• Assessing the coherence of ecosystem service consideration in environmental planning

  Open Access•Merina Lohani Sitoula, Melissa Neave et al.•Journal of Environmental Planning…•2024

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• Utilidad y limitaciones del concepto de servicios ecosistémicos para los análisis críticos acoplados de dinámicas socio-ecológicas

  Open Access•Jorge Daniel Ivars, Elma Montaña et al.•Scripta Nova Revista Electrónica…•2023

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• Research for Sustainable Development

  Matthias Labrenz, Renate Duckat et al.•GAIA - Ecological Perspectives…•2014

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• Policy reconsideredMeanings, politics and practices

  Susan Molyneux‐hodgson, Susan M Hodgson et al.•Policy Reconsidered•2007

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• The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value

  Open Access•Gretchen C Daily, Tore Söderqvist et al.•Science•2000

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• The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

  Open Access•R Costanza, Ralph C D’arge et al.•Nature•1997

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• Towards a European System of Social Indicators

  Heinz-Herbert Noll•Assessing quality of life and…•2005

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• The environmental–social interface of sustainable development

  Open Access•Markku Lehtonen•Ecological Economics•2004

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• Increasing the frame

  Morgan Meyer•Interdisciplinary Science Reviews•2007

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• Human Development and Economic Sustainability

  Open Access•Sudhir Anand, Amartya Sen•World Development•2000

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• Advances and Limits of Social Sustainability as an Evolving Concept

  Guillermo Foladori•Canadian Journal of Development…•2005

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• Trade-offs across Space, Time, and Ecosystem Services

  Open Access•Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jon Paul Rodrı́guez et al.•Conservation Ecology•2006

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• Linking Future Ecosystem Services and Future Human Well-being

  Open Access•Colin D Butler, Willis Oluoch-Kosura et al.•Conservation Ecology•2006

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• Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change

  Open Access•Gerald C Nelson, Edward M Bennett et al.•Conservation Ecology•2006

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• Politics of Nature

  Bruno Latour, Caitlin Porter et al.•Politics of Nature•2004

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