Ecosystem Services in the Service-Dominant Logic Framework.

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Integrating human and ecosystem health through ecosystem services frameworks

The pace and scale of environmental change is undermining the conditions for human health. Yet the environment and human health remain poorly integrated within research, policy and practice. The ecosystem services (ES) approach provides a way of promoting integration via the frameworks used to represent relationships between environment and society in simple visual forms. To assess this potential, we undertook a scoping review of ES frameworks and assessed how each represented seven key dimensions, including ecosystem and human health. Of the 84 ES frameworks identified, the majority did not include human health (62%) or include feedback mechanisms between ecosystems and human health (75%). While ecosystem drivers of human health are included in some ES frameworks, more comprehensive frameworks are required to drive forward research and policy on environmental change and human health

"Ecological Networks in Urban Planning: Between Theoretical Approaches and Operational Measures"

The ecological network can be considered in different ways: as a strictly interrelated system of habitats, as parks and protected areas network, as a multi-purpose ecosystemic scenario, as a sequence of natural, rural and open landscapes. Nevertheless, all the interpretations of natural landscapes not always have been considered in the lexicon of urban and regional planning, relegating natural and rural areas to an “inessential” role (and generically defining them as “in state of pre-urbanisation”). This contribution reflects about the ecological meaning of landscape, and therefore about its primary ecosystemic role, introducing a review proposal of the current programs and planning paradigms, highlighting its importance in the economic, entrepreneurial and policy debates in Europe. The main objective is promote new clear and specific local planning regulations, direct to the project of new ecological corridors with a more and useful consideration of the binominal value “landscape-biodiversity”, and in general of the “natural-rural-urban” cor- relation, as an essential condition for defining a new vision of sustainable urban and regional development

Choice Experiments: An application for the Corona Verde landscape in Turin (Italy)

How to evaluate a landscape in constant evolution and transformation? What does it constitute and determine the economic value of landscape? The present paper aims at investigating the role of evaluation tools for the assessment of the characteristics of a landscape. In line with the definition provided by the European Landscape Convention, the research deserves specific attention to the analysis of the landscape from the point of view of the values perceived by people. In particular, the paper focuses on the Choice Experiments technique that allows individual preferences and choices to be studied about several alternative scenarios. Starting from a real case concerning the Corona Verde landscape in the metropolitan area of Turin (Italy), the contribution investigates the role of Choice Experiments for supporting decision processes concerning landscape management and protectio

Reflections on Social Wellbeing and the Values of Small-Scale Fisheries: Implications for Research, Policy and Management

The contributors to this volume engaged in different ways with social wellbeing as an approach through which to investigate, identify and make visible a broad range of values associated with small-scale fisheries. In this concluding chapter, we highlight four themes that emerge from these contributions that are crucial for thinking about the diverse values of small-scale fisheries: 1) the broader context of transition; 2) integrating environmental considerations into wellbeing through co-construction and place; 3) recognizing the fertile, yet productively unsettled idea that value represents for small-scale fisheries, and; 4) putting into practice the social wellbeing approach to values that this volume develops. We point to connections between our approach and the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication