Landscape Experiences as a Cultural Ecosystem Service in a Nordic Context: Concepts, Values and Decision-making
Landscape Experiences as a Cultural Ecosystem Service in a Nordic Context: Concepts, Values and Decision-making

Author: Rasmus Reinvang

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9289342390

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Cultural ecosystem services in the form of experiences derived from landscapes are potentially important, but often overlooked. Given the large and unprecedented landscape changes many of the Nordic countries are undergoing, there is a need to find ways of including people's preferences and the value of landscape impacts in policy assessments and decision-making processes. The project aim has been to synthesize knowledge about the magnitude and value of landscape experiences, and investigate current practices and examples of how landscape impacts are incorporated (or not) in policy assessments and decision-making contexts in the Nordics. The literature demonstrates potentially high unaccounted welfare loss from landscape change. We find clear weaknesses in current practices, that a second phase will try to address. The project was carried out by Vista Analysis in Oslo and Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University from 2014-15.

Landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service in a Nordic context
Landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service in a Nordic context

Author: Lindhjem, Henrik

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2015-08-19

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9289342404

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Cultural ecosystem services in the form of experiences derived from landscapes are potentially important, but often overlooked. Given the large and unprecedented landscape changes many of the Nordic countries are undergoing, there is a need to find ways of including people’s preferences and the value of landscape impacts in policy assessments and decision-making processes. The project aim has been to synthesize knowledge about the magnitude and value of landscape experiences, and investigate current practices and examples of how landscape impacts are incorporated (or not) in policy assessments and decision-making contexts in the Nordics. The literature demonstrates potentially high unaccounted welfare loss from landscape change. We find clear weaknesses in current practices, that a second phase will try to address. The project was carried out by Vista Analysis in Oslo and Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University from 2014–15.

Policy Brief: Nordic ecosystem services:
Policy Brief: Nordic ecosystem services:

Author: Kristin Magnussen

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9289359447

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Nature provides us with a multitude of goods like food and fiber, drinking water, protection against floods and storms, carbon storage and recreational services like swimming and bird watching. Our welfare and well-being depend on these goods and services – often called ecosystem services, defined as “the benefit people directly and indirectly obtain from nature”. We often distinguish between four categories of ecosystem services; supporting, provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services. This report aims to sum up and show some examples of the results of the ecosystem services projects carried out for NCM. It illustrates which ecosystem services we receive from Nordic nature and the importance of these. It also shows examples of how the ecosystem services approach has been and can be used in management of nature in the Nordic countries, and to point out some knowledge gaps.

Assessing landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service in public infrastructure projects
Assessing landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service in public infrastructure projects

Author: Zandersen, Marianne

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 9289348909

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Undesirable landscape changes, especially from large infrastructure projects, may give rise to large welfare losses due to degraded landscape experiences. These losses are largely unaccounted for in Nordic countries’ planning processes. There is a need to develop practical methods of including people’s preferences and the value of landscape impacts in policy assessments and decision-making. The project aims to explore how the ecosystem service approach and values of landscape experiences can be better incorporated in actual cases. The project developed a two-step approach to assess, value and incorporate landscape impacts and tested these in case studies based on EIA documentation. We found that despite the lack of information generated in the EIAs, the step-wise method significantly improved upon evidence and conclusions of how people are impacted due to landscape changes.

Nordic urban nature recreation
Nordic urban nature recreation

Author: Scott Cole

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2018-05-25

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 9289355875

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The Nordic countries continue to experience growth of urban areas, which provides benefits like economic growth, but also imposes economic costs in terms of reduced ecosystem services. This report focuses on urban nature recreation and highlights economic methods and data that can help capture the associated nonmarket welfare benefits. The study stresses the need to collect user data to better understand visitation patterns, which can be combined with valuation methods to provide evidence of economic benefits associated with e.g., hiking, cycling, skiing, paddling and other recreation activities. Once these benefits are visible, decision-makers will have a better basis to balance economic growth with the environmental costs it imposes on urban ecosystem services.

Management of Tourism Ecosystem Services in a Post Pandemic Context
Management of Tourism Ecosystem Services in a Post Pandemic Context

Author: Vanessaa G. B. Gowreesunkar

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-09-30

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1000685667

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Tourism and ecosystems services are interdependant and face unique challenges. This book explores the challenges faced by destinations regarding the management and restoration of their ecosystem services. Responding to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book offers unique management solutions based on best practices from Europe, America, Asia, Africa, Indonesia and island destinations. The management techniques and strategies proposed are adaptive in nature, and they are meant to protect and sustain natural and cultural ecosystem services utilized by the tourism industry. Drawing from a rich collection of international case studies, the book adopts a user-friendly pedagogic approach, while seeking to be an essential future reference to scholars, researchers, academics and industry practitioners, destination management organizations and restoration agencies.

Renewable Economies in the Arctic
Renewable Economies in the Arctic

Author: David C. Natcher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1000464601

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This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Arctic states. The economic development of the Arctic region is witnessing new, innovative trends which hold promise for the sustainable development of the region. This book discusses the emerging forms of renewable economies to understand where intellectual and technological innovations are being made. It draws on the expertise of scholars from across the Arctic and provides the reader with a foundation of knowledge to identify the unique challenges of the region and explore opportunities to unlock the immense potential of renewable resources to boost the region’s economy. This book offers a holistic Arctic perspective against the backdrop of prevailing social, economic, and climatic challenges. With critical insights on the economic state of play and the role of renewable resources in the development of the Arctic region, this book will be a vital point of reference for Arctic scholars, communities, and policy makers.

Landscape Experiences as a Cultural Ecosystem Service in a Nordic Context: Concepts, Values and Decision-making
Landscape Experiences as a Cultural Ecosystem Service in a Nordic Context: Concepts, Values and Decision-making

Author: Henrik Lindhjem

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Cultural ecosystem services in the form of experiences derived from landscapes are potentially important, but often overlooked. Given the large and unprecedented landscape changes many of the Nordic countries are undergoing, there is a need to find ways of including people's preferences and the value of landscape impacts in policy assessments and decision-making processes. The project aim has been to synthesize knowledge about the magnitude and value of landscape experiences, and investigate current practices and examples of how landscape impacts are incorporated (or not) in policy assessments and decision-making contexts in the Nordics. The literature demonstrates potentially high unaccounted welfare loss from landscape change. We find clear weaknesses in current practices, that a second phase will try to address. The project was carried out by Vista Analysis in Oslo and Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University from 2014-15.

Landscape Experiences as a Cultural Ecosystem Service in a Nordic Context
Landscape Experiences as a Cultural Ecosystem Service in a Nordic Context

Author: Henrik Lindhjem

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9289342048

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Abstract: Cultural ecosystem services in the form of experiences derived from landscapes are potentially important, but often overlooked. Given the large and unprecedented landscape changes many of the Nordic countries are undergoing, there is a need to find ways of including people@0394@03C3s preferences and the value of landscape impacts in policy assessments and decision-making processes. The project aim has been to synthesize knowledge about the magnitude and value of landscape experiences, and investigate current practices and examples of how landscape impacts are incorporated (or not) in policy assessments and decision-making contexts in the Nordics. The literature demonstrates potentially high unaccounted welfare loss from landscape change. We find clear weaknesses in current practices, that a second phase will try to address. The project was carried out by Vista Analysis in Oslo and Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University from 2014@0394@03BC15.

Ecosystem Services in the Baltic Sea
Ecosystem Services in the Baltic Sea

Author: Heini Ahtiainen

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2014-12-08

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 9289338636

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This report presents an overview of the ecosystem services and associated benefits provided by the Baltic Sea, including information on the approaches of assessing and valuing ecosystem services being applied in the Baltic Sea region. It also identifies the main challenges in ecosystem service assessments in the Baltic Sea, and outlines the way forward in applying assessment tools in regional and national policies. Valuation of the benefits provided by ecosystem services can aid in designing more efficient policies for the protection of the Baltic Sea. The existing studies on the value of improved marine environment are useful in assessing the importance and value of some marine ecosystem services, but further work is still needed on describing ecosystem services and their interactions, and evaluating how policy changes affect these services and human well-being.