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

      Jacobs, Sander; Dendoncker, Nicolas; Martín-López, Berta; Barton, David Nicholas; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Boeraeve, Fanny; McGrath, Francesca L.; Vierikko, Kati; Geneletti, Davide; Sevecke, Katharina J.; Pipart, Nathalie; Primmer, Eeva; Mederly, Peter; Schmidt, Stefan; Aragão, Alexandra; Baral, Himlal; Bark, Rosalind H.; Briceno, Tania; Brogna, Delphine; Cabral, Pedro; Vreese, Rik De; Liquete, Camino; Mueller, Hannah; Peh, Kelvin S.-H.; Phelan, Anna; Rincón, Alexander R.; Rogers, Shannon H.; Turkelboom, Francis; Reeth, Wouter Van; Zanten, Boris T. van; Wam, Hilde Karine; Washbourn, Carla-Leanne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      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 ...
    • Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development, and environment 

      Tallis, Heather; Kreis, Katharine; Olander, Lydia; Ringler, Claudia; Ameyaw, David; Borsuk, Mark E.; Fletscher, Diana; Game, Edward; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Jeuland, Marc; Kennedy, Gina; Masuda, Yuta J.; Mehta, Sumi; Miller, Nicholas; Parker, Megan; Pollino, Carmel; Rajaratnam, Julie; Wilkie, David; Zhang, Wei; Ahmed, Selena; Ajayi, Oluyede C.; Alderman, Harold; Arhonditsis, George; Azevedo, Ines; Badola, Ruchi; Bailis, Rob; Balvanera, Patricia; Barbour, Emiliy; Bardini, Mark; Barton, David Nicholas; Baumgartner, Jill; Benton, Tim G.; Bobrow, Emily; Bossio, Deborah; Boström, Ann; Braimoh, Ademola; Brondizio, Eduardo; Brown, Joe; Bryant, Benjamin P.; Calder, Ryan S.D.; Chaplinn-Kramer, Becky; Cullen, Allison; DeMello, Nicole; Dickinson, Katherine L.; Ebi, Kristie L.; Eves, Heather E.; Fanzoo, Jessica (Journal article, 2019)
      Tallis, Heather; Kreis, Katharine; Olander, Lydia; Ringler, Claudia; Ameyaw, David; Borsuk, Mark E.; Fletschner, Diana; Game, Edward; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Jeuland, Marc; Kennedy, Gina; Masuda, Yuta J.; Mehta, Sumi; Miller, ...
    • Assessing ecosystem services from multifunctional trees in pastures using Bayesian belief networks 

      Barton, David Nicholas; Benjamin, Tamara; Cerdán, Carlos R.; DeClerck, Fabrice; Madsen, Anders L.; Rusch, Graciela; Salazar, Álvaro; Sánchez, Dalia; Villanueva, Cristóbal (Journal article, 2016)
    • Back to nature: Norwegians sustain increased recreational use of urban green space months after the COVID-19 outbreak 

      Venter, Zander; Barton, David Nicholas; Gundersen, Vegard; Figari, Helene; Nowell, Megan Sara (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In Oslo, as elsewhere, the COVID-19 outbreak and the following lockdown measures during spring 2020 led to increased use of urban green infrastructure. Whether this has led to more durable changes in recreation patterns ...
    • Bias and precision of crowdsourced recreational activity data from Strava 

      Venter, Zander; Gundersen, Vegard; Scott, Samantha Luise; Barton, David Nicholas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Recreational activity is the single most valuable ecosystem service in many developed countries with a range of benefits for public health. Crowdsourced recreational activity data is increasingly being adopted in management ...
    • Bigger, more diverse and better? Mapping structural diversity and its recreational value in urban green spaces 

      Soy Massoni, Emma; Barton, David Nicholas; Rusch, Graciela; Gundersen, Vegard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-07)
      Are bigger green spaces more diverse in terms of their natural and manmade elements? Does higher diversity mean they are more attractive to users and encourage more diversity of activities, and thereby provide a wider range ...
    • Classifying and valuing ecosystem services for urban planning 

      Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Barton, David Nicholas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)
      While technological progress has fostered the conception of an urban society that is increasingly decoupled from ecosystems, demands on natural capital and ecosystem services keep increasing steadily in our urbanized planet. ...
    • Comparing land use impacts using ecosystem quality, biogenic carbon emissions, and restoration costs in a case study of hydropower plants in Norway 

      Lillesund, Vilde Fluge; Hagen, Dagmar; Michelsen, Ottar; Foldvik, Anders; Barton, David Nicholas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Purpose Habitat destruction is today the most severe threat to global biodiversity. Despite decades of efforts, there is still no proper methodology on how to assess all aspects of impacts on biodiversity from land use and ...
    • Comparing the implicit valuation of ecosystem services from nature-based solutions in performance-based green area indicators across three European cities 

      Stange, Erik; Barton, David Nicholas; Andersson, Erik; Haase, Dagmar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Performance-based green area indicators are increasingly used as policy instruments to promote nature-based solutions in urban property development. We explore the differences and parallels of three green area indicators: ...
    • Constraining forest certificate's market to improve cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation in São Paulo state, Brazil 

      Bernasconi, Paula; Blumentrath, Stefan; Barton, David Nicholas; Rusch, Graciela; Romeiro, Ademar R. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The recently launched Brazilian ªforest certificatesº market is expected to reduce environmental compliance costs for landowners through an offset mechanism, after a long history of conservation laws based in command-and-control ...
    • A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities 

      Andersson, Erik; Borgström, Sara; Haase, Dagmar; Langemeyer, Johannes; Mascarenhas, André; McPhearson, Timon; Wolff, Manuel; Łaszkiewicz, Edyta; Kronenberg, Jakub; Barton, David Nicholas; Herreros-Cantis, Pablo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Understanding opportunities as well as constraints for people to benefit from and take care of urban nature is an important step toward more sustainable cities. In order to explore, engage, and enable strategies to improve ...
    • ¿Cómo incrementar la multifuncionalidad en potreros? 

      Sánchez, Dalia; Rusch, Graciela; Villanueva, Cristóbal; Barton, David Nicholas; Salazar, Álvaro (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      En las zonas ganaderas de Nicaragua hay un interés creciente de los productores por retener y manejar árboles en potreros (árboles dispersos y cercas vivas). Es recomendable que el productor considere la importancia de la ...
    • Creating urban green infrastructure where it is needed – A spatial ecosystem service-based decision analysis of green roofs in Barcelona 

      Langemeyer, Johannes; Wedgwood, Diego; McPhearson, Timon; Baró, Francesc; Madsen, Anders L.; Barton, David Nicholas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      As cities face increasing pressure fromdensification trends, green roofs represent a valuable source of ecosystem services for residents of compact metropolises where available green space is scarce. However, to date little ...
    • Decision making for sustainable natural resource management under political constraints – the case of revising hydropower licenses in Norwegian watercourses 

      Köhler, Berit; Ruud, Audun; Aas, Øystein; Barton, David Nicholas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Norway is the largest hydropower producer in Europe and provides currently 96% of domestic electricity supplies. Hydropower is a renewable and climate friendly source of energy, but causes an impairment on local environmental ...
    • Diverse values of nature for sustainability 

      Pascual, Unai; Balvanera, Patricia; Anderson, Christopher B.; Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca; Christie, Michael; González-Jiménez, David; Martin, Adrian; Raymond, Christopher M.; Termansen, Mette; Vatn, Arild; Athayde, Simone; Baptiste, Brigitte; Barton, David Nicholas; Jacobs, Sander; Kelemen, Eszter; Kumar, Ritesh; Lazos, Elena; Mwampamba, Tuyeni H.; Nakangu, Barbara; O’Farrell, Patrick; Subramanian, Suneetha M.; van Noordwijk, Meine; Ahn, SoEun; Amaruzaman, Sacha; Amin, Ariane M.; Arias-Arévalo, Paola; Arroyo-Robles, Gabriela; Cantú-Fernández, Mariana; Castro, Antonio J.; Contreras, Victoria; De Vos, Alta; Dendoncker, Nicolas; Engel, Stefanie; Eser, Uta; Faith, Daniel P.; Filyushkina, Anna; Ghazi, Houda; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Gould, Rachelle K.; Guibrunet, Louise; Gundimeda, Haripriya; Hahn, Thomas; Harmáčková, Zuzana V.; Hernández-Blanco, Marcello; Horcea-Milcu, Andra-Ioana; Huambachano, Mariaelena; Wicher, Natalia Lutti Hummel; Aydın, Cem İskender; Islar, Mine; Koessler, Ann-Kathrin; Kenter, Jasper O.; Kosmus, Marina; Lee, Heera; Leimona, Beria; Lele, Sharachchandra; Lenzi, Dominic; Lliso, Bosco; Mannetti, Lelani M.; Merçon, Juliana; Monroy-Sais, Ana Sofía; Mukherjee, Nibedita; Muraca, Barbara; Muradian, Roldan; Murali, Ranjini; Nelson, Sara H.; Nemogá-Soto, Gabriel R.; Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Jonas; Niamir, Aidin; Nuesiri, Emmanuel; Nyumba, Tobias O.; Özkaynak, Begüm; Palomo, Ignacio; Pandit, Ram; Pawłowska-Mainville, Agnieszka; Porter-Bolland, Luciana; Quaas, Martin; Rode, Julian; Rozzi, Ricardo; Sachdeva, Sonya; Samakov, Aibek; Schaafsma, Marije; Sitas, Nadia; Ungar, Paula; Yiu, Evonne; Yoshida, Yuki; Zent, Eglee (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Twenty-fve years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being, addressing the global biodiversity crisis still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values ...
    • Ecosystem Services and Opportunity Costs Shift SpatialPriorities for Conserving Forest Biodiversity 

      Schröter, Matthias; Rusch, Graciela; Barton, David Nicholas; Blumentrath, Stefan; Nordén, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      Inclusion of spatially explicit information on ecosystem services in conservation planning is a fairly new practice. This study analyses how the incorporation of ecosystem services as conservation features can affect ...
    • Ecosystem services mapping for municipal policy: ESTIMAP and zoning for urban beekeeping 

      Stange, Erik; Zulian, Grazia; Rusch, Graciela; Barton, David Nicholas; Nowell, Megan Sara (Journal article, 2017)
      Pollinating insects are an integral part of cities’ natural capital and perform an important ecosystem function with a high degree of relevance to many cultural ecosystem services. Consequently, pollinators serve as a ...
    • Enabling green and blue infrastructure to improve contributions to human well-being and equity in urban systems 

      Andersson, Erik; Langemeyer, Johannes; Borgström, Sara; McPhearson, Timon; Haase, Dagmar; Kronenberg, Jakub; Barton, David Nicholas; Davis, McKenna; Naumann, Sandra; Röschel, Lina; Baró, Francesc (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The circumstances under which different ecosystem service benefits can be realized differ. The benefits tend to be coproduced and to be enabled by multiple interacting social, ecological, and technological factors, which ...
    • Evaluating interactions of forestconservation policies on avoided deforestation 

      Roballino, Juan; Sandoval, Catalina; Barton, David Nicholas; Chacon, Adriana; Pfaff, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      We estimate the effects on deforestation that have resulted from policy interactions between parks and payments and between park buffers and payments in Costa Rica between 2000 and 2005. We show that the characteristics ...
    • Global 10 m Land Use Land Cover Datasets: A Comparison of Dynamic World, World Cover and Esri Land Cover 

      Venter, Zander; Barton, David Nicholas; Chakraborty, Tirthankar; Simensen, Trond; Singh, Geethen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The European Space Agency’s Sentinel satellites have laid the foundation for global land use land cover (LULC) mapping with unprecedented detail at 10 m resolution. We present a cross-comparison and accuracy assessment of ...