(Dis) integrated valuation – Assessing the information gaps in ecosystem service appraisals for governance support

摘要: The operational challenges of integrated ecosystem service (ES) appraisals are determined by study purpose, system complexity and uncertainty, decision-makers’ requirements for reliability accuracy methods, approaches to stakeholder–science interaction in different decision contexts. To explore these factors we defined an information gap hypothesis, based on a theory cumulative uncertainty ES appraisals. When context increase, the expected appraisal methods also increases, likelihood being used is drop, creating potential governance. In order test this evaluate 26 case studies 80 services large EU research project. We find some support decreasing coinciding with increasing decision-support context, uncertainty. do not that costs explanation gap, but rather project interacted mostly stakeholders outside most decision-relevant paper discusses how alternative definitions valuation can lead interpretations information, governance dealing