(Dis) integrated valuation - Assessing the information gaps in ecosystem service appraisals for governance support
- Barton, D.N.
- Kelemen, E.
- Dick, J.
- Martin Lopez, B.
- Gómez Baggethun, Erik
- Jacobs, S.
- Hendriks, C.M.A.
- Termansen, M.
- García Llorente, M.
- Primmer, E.
- Dunford, R.
- Harrison, P.A.
- Turkelboom, F.
- Saarikoski, H.
- van Dijk, J.
- Rusch, G.M.
- Palomo, I.
- Yli Pelkonen, V.J.
- Carvalho, L.
- Baró, F.
- Langemeyer, J.
- van der Wal, J. Tjalling
- Mederly, P.
- Priess, J.A.
- Luque, S.
- Berry, P.
- Santos, R.
- Odee, D.
- Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José
- García Blanco, G.
- Saarela, S. R.
- Silaghi, D.
- Pataki, G.
- Masi, F.
- Vădineanu, A.
- Mukhopadhyay, R.
- Lapola, D.M.
DOIAbstract
The operational challenges of integrated ecosystem service (ES) appraisals are determined by study purpose, system complexity and uncertainty, decision-makers´ requirements for reliability and accuracy of methods, and approaches to stakeholder-science interaction in different decision contexts. To explore these factors we defined an information gap hypothesis, based on a theory of cumulative uncertainty in ES appraisals. When decision context requirements for accuracy and reliability increase, and the expected uncertainty of the ES appraisal methods also increases, the likelihood of methods being used is expected to drop, creating a potential information gap in governance. In order to test this information gap hypothesis, we evaluate 26 cas...
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