Valuing Culture Through Ecosystem Services: Integrating Economic, Social, and Land Perspectives
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 11 August 2025 | Viewed by 982
Special Issue Editor
Interests: geography; landscape ecology; remote sensing; geoinformatics; geomorphology; land use change; landscape pattern physical geography; geostatistical analysis; natural hazards
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on how ecosystem services produce important socioeconomic and ecological effects on cultural landscapes, emphasizing both current actions and future initiatives to achieve sustainable territorial development. The ecosystem services approach aims to identify, quantify and value the benefits that nature provides to people, including cultural services such as education, recreation and aesthetic enjoyment. This can help inform the sustainable management of cultural landscapes.
This Special Issue aims to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) in order to provide insights into discussion and information exchange regarding the evaluation, valuation and mapping of the ecological services that cultural landscapes offer. It aims to examine how ecosystem services significantly impact cultural landscapes from a socioeconomic and ecological standpoint, highlighting both the steps being taken now and those that will be in the future to achieve sustainable territorial development.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Analyzing how cultural landscapes and ecosystem services are linked;
- Developing methods for assessing, quantifying and economically valuing cultural ecosystem services;
- Evaluating trade-offs between different land uses and cultural ecosystem services;
- Incorporating cultural ecosystem service values into spatial planning and decision-making;
- Exploring how cultural ecosystem services contribute to human well-being and conservation outcomes.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Martin Boltiziar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cultural ecosystems
- ecosystem services
- cultural landscapes
- economic valuation
- land-use planning
- socio-ecological approaches
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