Roy P. Remme

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and reflect on seven recurring critiques of the concept of ecosystem services and respective counter-arguments and contribute to a more structured debate between opponents and proponents of the ecosystem services concept.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conduct spatially explicit analyses of nine ecosystem services in Telemark County, Southern Norway, by means of different spatial models, developed with various available datasets and methods, including (multiple layer) look-up tables, causal relations between datasets, environmental regression and indicators derived from direct measurements.

TL;DR: How spatial configuration of hotspots for a set of ecosystem services differs depending on the applied method is tested and the outcomes to a heuristic site prioritisation approach (Marxan) are compared.

TL;DR: This article proposes that in best practice for ecosystem accounting an approach should be adopted that provides sufficient accuracy at acceptable costs given heterogeneity of the respective service, and suggests that different policy applications require different accuracy and different spatial modelling approaches.

TL;DR: In this article, monetary ecosystem accounting is proposed to provide a better understanding of ecosystem contributions to the economy in a spatially explicit way, by measuring the monetary value of ecosystem services using exchange values consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA).