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ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
Volume 37, Issue -, Pages 220-228Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.03.003
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Indicators; Quantitative evaluation; Social-ecological system; Trade-offs; Value-articulating institutions; Value pluralism
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- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under the OpenNESS [EC-308428]
- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under the BESAFE [EC-282743]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL201130266]
- Autonomic Organism of National Parks [018/2009]
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One of the key challenges for ecosystem services research is to develop a comprehensive methodological approach in which biophysical, socio-cultural and monetary value-domains can be explicitly considered and integrated into decision making processes. This paper operationalizes a methodological approach for ecosystem service assessment on the basis of value pluralism. We assessed eleven ecosystem services delivered in the Do (n) over tilde ana social-ecological system (SW Spain). We found that different ecosystem service trade-offs came into view depending the value-domain in which services were assessed. The use Of different valuation methods uncovers the fact that methods to elicit value actually shape and define the values being elicited. In this context, the prevalence of biophysical and monetary value-domains in scientific literature entails two main concerns: (1) the ecosystem service concept reflect in a limited extent the concerns of their beneficiaries, and (2) ecosystem service assessment results are biased towards the information provided by markets at the expense of other value-articulating institutions. Recognizing the role of ecosystem service assessment methods as value-articulating institutions, we call for a methodological framework able to contemplate the multidimensional nature of ecosystem services. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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