Outi Ratamäki

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the empirical results which emerged from stakeholder discussions within the PRESS (PEER Research on EcoSystem Services) project on certain unresolved challenges related to the use of the ecosystem services (ES) concept in decision making.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present results drawn from interviews on a regional level and from a focus group discussion on national and EU levels dealing with the question of how exactly spatially explicit information can be used in decision-making concerning biodiversity and ecosystem services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a synthesis of the PRESS initiative (PEER7 Research on Ecosystem Services), which demonstrated a multi-scale mapping and assessment approach of ecosystem services using three case studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the need to upgrade the knowledge basis of ecosystem services and their social and economic values in order to inform ongoing policy design and decision making processes, and present research capacity to map, assess and report ecosystem services as well as their implications for different community and regional policies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of policies relating to the large carnivores in the three countries focuses on the actors, and their powers and accountability, and demonstrates that the different strategies result in no significant increase in power at the level of the actors.