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Institutional challenges in putting ecosystem service knowledge in practice
2018
Ecosystem Services
The promise that ecosystem service assessments will contribute to better decision-making is not yet proven. We analyse how knowledge on ecosystem services is actually used to inform land and water management in 22 case studies covering different social-ecological systems in European and Latin American countries. None of the case studies reported instrumental use of knowledge in a sense that ecosystem service knowledge would have served as an impartial arbiter between policy options. Yet, in
doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.07.019
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