Ecosystem services assessment tools for African Biosphere Reserves: A review and user-informed classification

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101079" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101079</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101079" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101079</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ecosystem services assessment tools for African Biosphere Reserves: A review and user-informed classification

Original language description

While the concept of ecosystem services which links biodiversity to human wellbeing, is by now well-known, its translation into actual management decisions is still uneven. African Biosphere Reserves, which are to be living labs for sustainable development, embody the idea of synergies between people and nature. Gaining knowledge about the provision, the use and the trends of ecosystem services in these reserves is essential to ensure their global change-proof management. The diversity of rapidly evolving ecosystem services assessment tools requires a systematic and informed selection, in order to ensure that prospective tool users select the most adequate tool, aligned to their needs and context. Based on a Delphi survey of future tool users, and on a review of ecosystem services assessment tools, we propose guidance to users to select the most suited tool based on the context of African Biosphere Reserves, and on tool requirements regarding data input, necessary skills, outputs and types of ecosystem services addressed. The use of the Delphi survey and the focus on African Biosphere Reserves are new elements that contribute to the theory and practice of ecosystem services assessment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ecosystem Services

ISSN

2212-0416

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

42

Issue of the periodical within the volume

APR 2020

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

000522223700008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85082679296