Sociocultural valuation of ecosystem services for operational ecosystem management: mapping applications by decision contexts in Europe

摘要: Sociocultural valuation (SCV) of ecosystem services (ES) discloses the principles, importance or preferences expressed by people towards nature. Although ES research has increasingly addressed sociocultural values in past years, little effort been made to systematically review components applications for different decision contexts (i.e. awareness raising, accounting, priority setting, litigation and instrument design). In this analysis, we investigate characteristics 48 applications—characterised unique combinations context, methods, data collection formats participants—across ten European case studies. Our findings show that raising value capturing people’s perspective establishing status quo, was found most frequent context studies, followed setting development. Accounting issues were not any applications. We reveal particular are methodologically similar, determine choice participants involved. Therefore, conclude understanding is a critical first step designing carrying out fit-for-purpose operational management.