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ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
Volume 21, Issue -, Pages 89-103Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.11.010
Keywords
Ecosystem services; Qualitative assessment; Quantitative valuation; Offshore wind farming; Forest and coastal ecosystem services; Methodology integration
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [FKZ 03F0476 A-C]
- EU
- European Community [226675]
- University of Padua, TESAF Department
- University of Venice IUAV-Department of Planning
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Quantitative and qualitative approaches to assessing and valuing ecosystem services have been compared using case studies from Italy and Germany. This paper describes and analyzes two different methods of applying an ecosystem service approach and discusses their relative strengths, shortcomings and peculiarities. This allows the conditions to be identified that best support the application of one or other of these methods. Suggestions are offered on how to integrate both methodologies in order to improve the implementation of an ecosystem service approach in decision-making processes. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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