Andra Ioana Milcu

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a semiquantitative review of publications explicitly dealing with cultural ecosystem services and identified five groups of publications: conceptual focus, conceptual focus deals with theoretical issues; Group 2, descriptive reviews, consists mostly of desktop studies; Group 3, localized outcomes, deals with case studies coming from different disciplines; Group 4, social and participatory, deals mainly with assessing preferences and perceptions; and Group 5, economic assessments, provides economic valuations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a holistic approach to work through the complexity posed by cross-scale interactions, spatial heterogeneity and multiple uncertainties facing regional social-ecological systems, and find ways to reach socially and environmentally desirable conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how rural inhabitants appreciated ecosystem services through questionnaires with 98 people in 30 villages and assessed the perception of people about ongoing changes in their communities through semistructured interviews with 50 people in 5 villages.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how rural inhabitants appreciated ecosystem services through questionnaires with 98 people in 30 villages and assessed the perception of people about ongoing changes in their communities through semistructured interviews with 50 people in 5 villages.

TL;DR: Structured questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with town hall representatives from 30 villages in Southern Transylvania and local EU experts revealed that EU policies are often poorly aligned with local conditions.