TY - JOUR
TI - Potentials of Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Assessing Ecosystem Services
AU - Busch, M
AU - La Notte, A
AU - Laporte, V
AU - Erhard, M
T2 - Ecological Indicators
AB - Quantitative and qualitative approaches to assessing and valuing ecosystem services have been compared using case studies from Italy and Germany. This paper describes and analyzes two different methods of applying an ecosystem service approach and discusses their relative strengths, shortcomings and peculiarities. This allows the conditions to be identified that best support the application of one or other of these methods. Suggestions are offered on how to integrate both methodologies in order to improve the implementation of an ecosystem service approach in decision-making processes.
DA - 2012/10//
PY - 2012
VL - 21
SP - 89
EP - 103
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X1100375X
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.11.010
LA - English
KW - Social & Economic Data
KW - Human Dimensions
ER -