Investigating sense of place as a cultural ecosystem service in different landscapes through the lens of language

We are grateful for the comments and feedback of three anonymous reviewers. We thank Olga Chesnokova for her help in calculating cosine similarity measures. The research on which this paper is based was financially supported by the cogito foundation through the project ‘How language shapes our sense of place’, grant no. 15-129-R.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Characterising and mapping potential and experienced tranquillity : From a state of mind to a cultural ecosystem service

Funding Information: Many thanks to Graeme Willis (Campaign to Protect Rural England) and Nick Groome (Ordnance Survey) for their help in accessing the National Tranquillity Mapping Data. We would like to thank all the contributors to Geograph British Isles (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License) whose contributions were used to map tranquil and silent locations in the Lake District.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

‘This is not the jungle, this is my barbecho’ : semantics of ethnoecological landscape categories in the Bolivian Amazon

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Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists : an interdisciplinary approach

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Assessing experienced tranquillity through natural language processing and landscape ecology measures

Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge all the contributors to Geograph British Isles (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License). RSP also gratefully acknowledges funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (200020E_186389). Funding Open Access funding provided by WSL - Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Expanding the toolbox : Assessing methods for local outdoor recreation planning

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Comparing outdoor recreation preferences in peri-urban landscapes using different data gathering methods

Support for the research reported in this paper was provided by the European Research Councilunder the European Union’s Seventh Framework ERC Grant Agreement 311819 GLOLAND (Integrating human agency in global-scale land change models, www.cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/106305/factsheet/en), the European Commission Grant Agreement 633838, through the project PROVIDE (Providing smart delivery of Public Goods by EU agriculture and forestry, www.provide-project.eu) and the BiodivERsA project ENVISION funded through the Dutch National Science Foundation.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

‘This is not the jungle, this is my barbecho’: semantics of ethnoecological landscape categories in the Bolivian Amazon

Through a case study with Spanish-speaking Takana indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, we explored ethnoecological landscape categories, including their ecological underpinnings, cultural significance and hierarchical organisation. Using field walks and interviews with consultants, we elicited 156 ethnoecological landscape categories, 60 of which related to vegetation types. However, sorting exercises with landscape photographs revealed that vegetation was not a guiding organisation principle. Takana consultants organised ethnoecological landscape categories into geographical regions that contained different landscape features, including vegetation units, topographical or hydrological features. Comparing the documented ethnoecological landscape categorisation with a published scientific botanical classification of vegetation units, we observed some important conceptual differences, which in turn have implications for the management of such landscapes

Urban forest usage and perception of ecosystem services – A comparison between teenagers and adults

We thank Christoph Düggelin and Marc Baume for the interpretation of the photographs and two anonymous reviewers for comments on the manuscript. The project was funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI, Switzerland (Grant No. C13.0135) as a contribution to the COST Action PF1204 and by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland (Grant No. 16.0074.PJ / S062-1129).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Exploring tranquillity experienced in landscapes based on social media

This work was financially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation [grant no. 171911] and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [grant agreement no. 689,812] (‘LandSense’).Peer reviewedPublisher PD