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Integrating stakeholder perspectives into environmental planning through social valuation of ecosystem services: Guidance and Prototype Applications

Resource description:

Social – or socio-cultural – valuation of ecosystem services is the process of discovering what ecosystem services people value and how important they are to them.

Here, you find GUIDANCE to set up your own social valuation study and a illustrative PROTOTYPE APPLICATIONS to learn from.

These prototype applications are based on close collaboration between researchers and practitionars in exemplary case studies funded by the FP7 project OPERAs.

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Advantages:

  • Practical guidance towards you own assessment of the social value of ecosystem services
  • Illustrative hands-on examples including exemplary results and use in decision-making
  • Users: Environmental planners, ecosystem and natural resource managers, local and regional authorities

Licence:

  • Free, no licence

Accessibility:

  • International Standards (eg. ISO)

Development stage:

  • Early access - alpha phase

Quality assurance:

  • Professional references
  • Own QA and testing
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