EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43310%2F25%3A43927178" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43310/25:43927178 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101744" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101744</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101744" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101744</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services
Original language description
The transfer of ecosystem service assessments to real-world decision-making in the public and private spheres is lagging. We introduce EnhancES, a toolbox for mapping and assessing ecosystem services developed with the open-source software QGIS. The toolbox can currently assess twelve ecosystem services (ES). We demonstrate how biophysical ES modelling can be integrated into a multistep spatial planning/design process via EnhancES. We used real information from the planning process of a residential area in Bochum, Germany. We compared the expected changes in six ES that emerged from three different urban planning designs submitted as part of an official urban planning competition, plus a revised plan. The gains and losses in standardized ES performance convey a clear message: an overall gain of ES is only possible with the revised plan. Acknowledging ES as a fundamental basis for human well-being should put them at the centre of decision-making, because marginal valuation over different development alternatives is the way forward.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10700 - Other natural sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecosystem Services
ISSN
2212-0416
e-ISSN
2212-0416
Volume of the periodical
74
Issue of the periodical within the volume
August
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
101744
UT code for WoS article
001519654900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105008583922