References and Links

ARIES papers

[Bagstad, K.J., G.W. Johnson, B. Voigt, and F. Villa. In press. Spatial dynamics of ecosystem service flows: A comprehensive approach to quantifying actual services. Forthcoming in: Ecosystem Services.] (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041612000174)

Johnson, G.W., R.R. Snapp, F. Villa, and K.J. Bagstad. 2012. Modelling ecosystem service flows under uncertainty with stochastic SPAN. Pp. 1021-1028 in: R. Seppelt, A.A. Voinov, S. Lange, and D. Bankamp, eds., Proceedings of the 2012 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software.

Johnson, G.W., K.J. Bagstad, R. Snapp, and F. Villa. 2012. Service Path Attribute Networks (SPANs): A network flow approach to ecosystem service assessment. International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems 3 (2): 54-71.

Villa, F., K.J. Bagstad, G. Johnson, and B. Voigt. 2011. Scientific instruments for climate change adaptation: estimating and optimizing the efficiency of ecosystem services provision. Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales 11 (1): 83-98.

Johnson, G., K.J. Bagstad, R.R. Snapp, and F. Villa. 2010. Service Path Attribute Networks (SPANs): Spatially quantifying the flow of ecosystem services from landscapes to people. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6016: 238-253.

Mulligan, M. A. Guerry, K. Arkema, K. Bagstad and F. Villa. 2010. Capturing and quantifying the flow of ecosystem services. In: Silvestri S., Kershaw F., (eds.). Framing the flow: Innovative Approaches to Understand, Protect and Value Ecosystem Services Across Linked Habitats. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambrdige, UK. ISBN 978-92-807-3065-4.

Villa, F., M. Ceroni, K. Bagstad, G. Johnson, and S. Krivov. 2009. ARIES (Artificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services): A new tool for ecosystem services assessment, planning, and valuation. Proceedings of the 11th Annual BIOECON Conference on Economic Instruments to Enhance the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity, Venice, Italy, September, 2009.

Background papers on ARIES modeling approaches

Marcot, B.G., J.D. Stevenson, G.D. Sutherland, and R.K. McCann. 2006. Guidelines for developing and updating Bayesian belief networks applied to ecological modeling and conservation. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 3063-3074.

McCann, R.K., B.G. Marcot, and R. Ellis. 2006. Bayesian belief networks: application in ecology and natural resource management. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 3053-3062.

McComb, G., V. Lantz, K. Nash and R. Rittmaster. 2006. International value databases: Overview, methods and operational issues. Ecological Economics 60 (2): 461-472.

Pearl, J. 1988. Probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems: Networks of plausible inference. Morgan-Kaufmann: San Francisco.

Villa, F., M. Ceroni, and S. Krivov, 2007. Intelligent Databases assist transparent and sound economic valuation of ecosystem services. Environmental Management 39: 878-899.

Background papers on ecosystem services

Boyd, J. and Banzhaf, S. 2007. What are ecosystem services? The need for standardized environmental accounting units. Ecological Economics 63: 616-626.

Fisher, B., K. Turner, M. Zylstra, R. Brouwer, R. de Groot, S. Farber, P. Ferraro, R. Green, D. Hadley, J. Harlow, P. Jefferiss, C. Kirkby, P. Morling, S. Mowatt, R. Naidoo, J. Paavola, B. Strassburg, D. Yu, and A. Balmford. 2008. Ecosystem services and economic theory: Integration for policy-relevant research. Ecological Applications 18 (8): 2050-2067.

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Living beyond our means - Natural assets and human well-being. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute.

National Research Council. 2005. Valuing ecosystem services: toward better environmental decision-making. National Academies Press: Washington, DC.

Ruhl, J.B., S.E. Kraft, and C.L. Lant. 2007. The law and policy of ecosystem services. Island Press: Washington, DC.

Tallis, H. and S. Polasky. 2009. Mapping and Valuing Ecosystem Services as an Approach for Conservation and Natural-Resource Management. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1162: 265-283.

Wallace, K.J. 2007. Classification of ecosystem services: Problems and solutions. Biological Conservation 139: 235-246.

A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) Conference

AGAVES Consortium

Bay Bank

BSR and Ecosystem Services

Defenders of Wildlife - Benefits Estimation Toolkit

EBM Tools Database

Ecoagriculture Partners

ecoSERVICES Group, Arizona State University

Ecosystem Commons community of practice

Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA)

Ecosystem Services Partnership

Ecosystem Valuation basics

EVRI Database

Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont

Katoomba Group Ecosystem Marketplace

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

National Academies Press: Valuing ecosystem services

National Ecosystem Services Partnership

Natural Capital Project, Stanford University

Rewards for use of and shared investment in pro-poor ecosystem services

Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES)

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)

USDA Forest Service and ecosystem services

USDA Office of Environmental Markets

US EPA Ecosystem Services Research

US EPA National Center for Environmental Economics

Willamette Partnership Ecosystem Services Markets

World Business Council for Sustainable Development and ecosystem services

Worldchanging feature on ecosystem services

WRI People and Ecosystems