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{"title":"Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions","authors":"Gislaine Costa de Mendonça ,&nbsp;Maria Teresa Vilela Nogueira Abdo ,&nbsp;Luis Miguel da Costa ,&nbsp;Renata Cristina Araújo Costa ,&nbsp;Fernando António Leal Pacheco ,&nbsp;Milton Cezar Ribeiro ,&nbsp;Maria José Brito Zakia ,&nbsp;Laura De Simone Borma ,&nbsp;Teresa Cristina Tarlé Pissarra","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101679","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101679","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) globally addresses land use-tenure-restoration tradeoffs. The Atlantic Forest Connection Projetc, a Brazilian collaborative initiative, aimed to preserve and restore the Brazilian Atlantic Forest fostering and rewarding sustainable land use that could generate biodiversity, climate, and socioeconomic benefits through Nature-based Solutions (NbS). However, comprehensive assessments of these strategic implementations are still lacking. To validate them and enhance overall effectiveness, we have developed the PES-Catchment protocol, a watershed-based framework that targets strategic areas, and propose metrics for evaluating water and soil conservation services. This methodology seeks to optimize the impact of existing environmental and socioeconomic public policies and governance, by directing the efficient implementation of NbS in the restoration of agroecosystems. Priority areas were identified using a multicriteria decision analysis in GIS software, by merging key factors (watershed management, landscape vulnerability, water availability, land degradation) for improving landscape restoration and ecosystem services through agroforestry implementation. Three reference scenarios were created to identify where the benefits can be maximized: SI) multiple ecosystem services conservation (water and soil); SII) hydrological services provision; and SIII) land degradation neutrality. The extent of high levels of degradation across scenarios ranges from 22 to 26%, with scenario SI being the most responsive to high-priority areas. In contrast, low priority areas were more frequently observed under SII scenario, followed by SIII and SI, respectively. The projections prioritized 25% of the area along the most critical catchments and subbasins, exposing a significant level of land degradation and risks to hydrological services. Furthermore, around 50% of the private rural properties registered in the programs are distributed in medium priority areas, and 21% on average are in high-priority areas, which represents an alert to redirect targets and intensify the efforts in resource allocation (implementing/monitoring). The PES – Catchment outcomes offer insights and structural support to adjust governance strategies, optimizing payments for ecosystem services aimed at landscape restoration and watershed conservation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101679"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecosystem services concept: Challenges to its integration in government organizations","authors":"Denis Blouin ,&nbsp;Jean-François Bissonnette ,&nbsp;Jean-Olivier Goyette ,&nbsp;Jérôme Cimon-Morin ,&nbsp;Poliana Mendes ,&nbsp;Gabriela María Torchio ,&nbsp;Jérôme Gosselin-Tapp ,&nbsp;Monique Poulin","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101691","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101691","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ecosystem services (ES) concept is well-established in the scientific community but remains underutilized and poorly understood within government organizations. In this article, we analyze the barriers to integrating ES into relevant governmental operations in Quebec, Canada. According to the perspective expressed by eight governmental organizations’ representatives, we analyze factors constraining the integration of the ES concept at the government level while suggesting ways forward. We found that despite the relevance of this concept in many areas ranging from planning to environment management, its operationalization faces challenges due to 1) confusion of terminology; 2) difficulties in evaluating and prioritizing ES; and 3) the complexity of operationalization in a context of interdependent practices. Moreover, the adoption of guidelines to implement the ES concept in governmental policies and programs is insufficient. Along with institutional and operational limitations, government organizations face structural constraints preventing the concept’s full use, namely the fundamental of State and market. Our study shows that although the ES concept is apprehended in a utilitarian way for short-term goals within government organizations, it nonetheless holds the potential to raise awareness and promote enlightened decision-making on environmental benefits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101691"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143181511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings","authors":"A.J. Woodhead ,&nbsp;J.O. Kenter ,&nbsp;C.D. Thomas ,&nbsp;L.C. Stringer","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101694","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101694","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How ecosystem services are produced remains a critical research gap that must be addressed if services are to persist under on-going and future environmental change. Interest in this area is coalescing under the term ‘co-production’, which recognises that services are generated through interactions between social and ecological processes. Here we conduct a critical review of academic research into the co-production of ecosystem services, aiming to understand the foundations of this emergent field. Despite its recent origins, we identify four different framings as to how ecosystem services are co-produced and discuss their different epistemological bases and applications. The four framings are: <em>input focused</em>, which identifies and measures the inputs underpinning co-production; <em>actor focused</em>, understanding who is involved in co-production; <em>context focused</em> that situates co-production in social relations and place; and a more disparate <em>disciplines focused</em> approach, which highlights alternative conceptualisations of co-production based on diverse disciplinary and conceptual perspectives. There is overlap and dialogue between the four approaches, and we identify examples of how and where to operationalise these framings together to achieve a more holistic understanding of co-production processes. Nevertheless, behind these different framings are differences over what is or is not considered co-produced, and thus what is considered a valid field of inquiry within co-production research. This indicates ontological differences on the social construction of ecosystem services and the role of people therein. We argue that diversity in co-production research is important for representing the complexity of human-environment interactions, but that a more explicit acknowledgement of the ontological assumptions underpinning co-production is crucial if this area of research is to be analytically useful for the management of current and future ecosystem services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101694"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mind the income gap: Income from wood production exceed income from providing diverse ecosystem services from Europe’s forests","authors":"Marko Lovrić ,&nbsp;Mario Torralba ,&nbsp;Francesco Orsi ,&nbsp;Davide Pettenella ,&nbsp;Carsten Mann ,&nbsp;Davide Geneletti ,&nbsp;Tobias Plieninger ,&nbsp;Eeva Primmer ,&nbsp;Monica Hernandez-Morcillo ,&nbsp;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen ,&nbsp;Thomas Lundhede ,&nbsp;Lasse Loft ,&nbsp;Sven Wunder ,&nbsp;Georg Winkel","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101689","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101689","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forests supply multiple ecosystem services, categorized into provisioning (e.g. wood), regulating (e.g. climate change mitigation, biodiversity protection) and cultural (e.g. recreation) services. While European policies have set the target for forest management to supply multiple ecosystem services, the literature emphasises that regulating and cultural ecosystem services tend to be undersupplied, as most management incentives focus on provisioning services.</div><div>We conducted a pan-European survey of forest owners and managers on sources of forest income and extrapolated the results with spatially referenced data and machine learning.</div><div>We gathered relative income and profitability levels derived from supplying different groups of forest ecosystem services per forest plot. We show that approximately eighty percent of forest income is currently linked to provisioning services. Supplying regulating and cultural services is rarely perceived as profitable. We then identified two clusters of European forest owners and managers. The first, managing predominantly conifer-dominated forests in thinly populated areas of Northern and Eastern Europe, derives nearly all its forest income from wood production. The second, managing forests characterized by broadleaved species, proximity to cities, and with a higher share being designated as Natura 2000, dominates in Western and Southern Europe. In this second cluster, about one-third of forest income comes from regulating and cultural ecosystem services, but at low profitability. We conclude by arguing that recognizing both this spatial divide across Europe and the gap between forest owners’ economic incentives to provide preliminary provisioning ecosystem services, and societal demand emphasising regulating and cultural ecosystem services, is key for designing customized, effective policies for multiple forest ecosystem services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101689"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributions of stakeholder perspectives and biophysical mapping to assess ecosystem services in the Upper White Nile basin","authors":"Annika Schlemm ,&nbsp;Mark Mulligan ,&nbsp;Afnan Agramont ,&nbsp;Benjamin Ssekamuli ,&nbsp;Callist Tindimugaya ,&nbsp;Godfrey Ogonda ,&nbsp;Ann van Griensven","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101688","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101688","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The wellbeing and livelihoods of local communities are threatened by global changes that affect ecosystem services. This study addresses the gap in comprehensive ecosystem services assessment and uses the Co$tingNature mapping tool and stakeholder’s perceptions to examine the spatial distribution of ecosystem service magnitudes and perceived local value in the Upper White Nile basin in East Africa, an area facing significant resource pressures. The analysis reveals a heterogeneous distribution of ecosystem services, with a notable concentration of ecosystem service delivery in the western regions of the basin in Uganda. The Co$tingNature assessment emphasises the widespread spatial distribution of carbon storage and sequestration and agriculture related services, while stakeholders highly value more localised services such as water provision and artisanal fisheries. Using both methods proves crucial, as Co$tingNature offers cost-effective whole-area spatial assessments, whereas stakeholder perceptions provide insights into local concerns and values. This study underscores the importance of complementing global tools with local knowledge, as these tools may otherwise lack relevance in local policy spheres. By incorporating stakeholder perspectives into conservation planning, the study highlights the need to integrate aquatic and agriculture-related ecosystem services into local policies and conservation strategies in the Upper White Nile basin. Leveraging tools like Co$tingNature alongside stakeholder perspectives enhances our understanding of ecosystem dynamics and facilitates more effective environmental management strategies in the region. This combined approach offers a practical framework for ecosystem service assessments that can both contextualise and mobilise conservation efforts, bridging the gap between locally valued services and those with global significance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101688"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review","authors":"Valentina Savo ,&nbsp;Luca D’Amato ,&nbsp;Flavia Bartoli ,&nbsp;Ilaria Zappitelli ,&nbsp;Giulia Caneva","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101690","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101690","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In urban ecosystems, the value of green spaces and biodiversity is increasingly recognized, and street trees provide beneficial effects or ecosystem services. However, street trees are not all the same, and some species are better suited for specific urban contexts and provide more benefits than others. Considering an extensive literature, here we provide a framework to evaluate the various ecosystem services that street tree species can provide in urban environments related to regulating, provisioning, and supporting services. For each ecosystem service, we selected the numerous morphological, physiological, and ecological features of the tree species that can affect the provision and extent of the benefits. An ideal species does not exist because some traits can be beneficial in certain climates or for specific functions and be negative for others. Here, we suggest an array of traits that urban planners can look for if they want to maximize a specific ecosystem service rather than another. For instance, evergreen, tall, fast-growing species are potentially the best types of trees if urban planners want to maximize carbon sequestration amounts, but the same traits could be negative for other ecosystem services. All in all, we recognize that maintaining a diversity of tree species, with an array of morphological, physiological, and ecological features, can diversify and possibly increase the provision of ecosystem services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101690"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantifying spatially explicit LCA midpoint characterization factors to assess the impact of specific farming practices on ecosystem services","authors":"Sara Lago-Olveira,&nbsp;Maria Teresa Moreira,&nbsp;Sara González-García","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101686","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101686","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is a scientifically sound tool, endorsed by the European Commission, for conducting environmental assessments. Despite its standardized approach, certain areas require improvement, particularly concerning impacts on ecosystem structure, function, and associated ecosystem services. Given the significant pressure of agriculture on global ecosystems, research has attempted to establish characterization factors (CFs) that reflect the impact of agricultural practices on ecosystem services. However, the current CFs lack precision and are unable to differentiate between the various types and intensities of agricultural management. This study aims to contribute to the evolving LCA field by introducing novel CFs that allow for the assessment of the impacts and benefits of growing wheat under different agricultural practices on three ecosystem services: water purification, soil erosion control, and carbon sequestration. Spatially explicit, nonlinear models (InVEST and RothC) were used, with the Galician region of northwestern Spain as the spatial setting. The quantified CFs indicated that wheat cultivated with conventional tillage, straw removal and without cover crop exhibited the least favorable outcomes in terms of ecosystem service supply, specifically water purification (13.29 kg N·ha⁻¹·y^-1), soil erosion control (11.71 t soil·ha⁻¹·y^-1), and carbon sequestration (45.41 t C·ha⁻¹·y^-1). In contrast, the combination of conservation tillage, straw return and cover crop resulted in the highest ecosystem services gains (−0.46 kg N·ha⁻¹·y^-1, 2.64 t soil·ha⁻¹·y^-1, 7.05 t C·ha⁻¹·y^-1, respectively). The geographical specificity of the CFs presented here, combined with the detailed classification of agricultural land use, offers essential insights into the potential gains and losses of ecosystem services resulting from various farming practices. This information can assist industry stakeholders and policymakers in making well-informed agricultural management decisions, and in developing strategies that prevent unintended environmental burden shifting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101686"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using georeferenced text from social media to map the cultural ecosystem services of freshwater ecosystems","authors":"F. Comalada ,&nbsp;O. Llorente ,&nbsp;V. Acuña,&nbsp;J. Saló,&nbsp;X. Garcia","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101702","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101702","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are vital for enhancing human well-being, including those provided by freshwater ecosystems such as recreation, aesthetic values, and education. However, assessing these services is challenging due to their intangible nature and personal perception. Text-based social media data offers a valuable source of information for assessing CES. In this study, we developed a novel methodological framework using georeferenced text from social media to map CES of specific ecosystems. This framework is implemented through <em>TweetMyRiver</em>, a tool designed to extract, analyze, and classify posts from Twitter/X related to freshwater CES. By combining expert knowledge with artificial intelligence (AI) models, we ensured robustness and scalability. We developed the tool in the Ter River basin and tested it in three other river basins: the Fluvià basin in Catalonia, the Forth basin in Scotland, and the Scarce basin between France and Belgium. The results of the tool are analyzed descriptively and statistically to verify its accuracy, reliability, and applicability in different contexts. Our tool enables the analysis of CES across large areas and over time, providing insights into their distribution, drivers, and dynamics. It has the potential to inform decision-making, support conservation efforts, and contribute to sustainable ecosystem management. Future research should focus on customizing the tool for the analysis of CES in other ecosystem types, leveraging more accessible georeferenced text data, and incorporating different machine learning approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101702"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA","authors":"Ally M. Whiteis ,&nbsp;Chris B. Zou ,&nbsp;Omkar Joshi ,&nbsp;Benedict Ferguson ,&nbsp;Sophie Roberts","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101697","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101697","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecosystem services, essential for supporting life, are increasingly being altered by anthropogenic activities. This study focuses on the Cross Timbers ecoregion of the southern Great Plains, USA, where oak woodland and grassland co-exist. However, grasslands are rapidly transitioning to woodlands through a process known as woody plant encroachment, or are being considered for switchgrass biofuel production. Our objectives were to quantify the supporting (plant biodiversity, aboveground net primary productivity), provisioning (water quantity, forage production), regulating (soil organic carbon, flood regulation), and cultural services (hunting-based recreation, aesthetics) of four land use types—tallgrass prairie, oak woodland, eastern redcedar woodland, and switchgrass biofuel production—using the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Framework. We integrated these services into an ecosystem sustainability index. Results showed that tallgrass prairie provided balanced services and ranked highest in this index. Eastern redcedar and switchgrass exhibited an imbalance in services, while oak woodland’s ranking varied with normalization methods. Our results highlight the need for grassland conservation by curtailment of eastern redcedar expansion. While oak woodland ranks high in cultural services, its restoration is recommended to enhance multiple ecosystem services. This study provides a roadmap for quantitatively evaluating ecosystem services to inform management decisions for ecosystem transitions and promote regional sustainability. Future research should broaden stakeholder engagement and explore integrated land use strategies within large watersheds encompassing multiple land uses to enhance regional environmental sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101697"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainability assessment of agricultural practices integrating both LCA and ecosystem services approaches","authors":"V. Martínez-García ,&nbsp;J.M. Martínez-Paz ,&nbsp;F. Alcon","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101698","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101698","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is a pressing need to deal with the sustainability of agricultural management practices to adapt and mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture, while ensuring the food provision. Sustainable intensification emerges as a feasible alternative while the sustainability assessment of agriculture is still unclear in the scientific literature. The most widely comprehensive assessment tools are the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and the Ecosystem Services (ES) approaches, being them frequently employed isolated. Despite there are several proposals to integrate both approaches, none of them are focus on economic valuation for policy analysis.</div><div>This study proposes a methodology for the sustainability assessment of agricultural practices that considers the relationship between society and ecosystems, integrating both LCA, ES approaches within the Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) causal framework. ES is considered as the driving approach based on human well-being as the ultimate objective of sustainability. Thereby monetary valuation would quantify the net contribution of agricultural practices to human well-being.</div><div>The proposed methodology is employed for the sustainability assessment of a set of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for sustainable intensification in intensively irrigated agriculture, with the lemon crop in the Campo de Cartagena (Region de Murcia, Spain) serving as an illustrative example, constituting a useful guide for application in other contexts. The obtained results underscore the need to integrate both positive and negative impacts of agriculture on human well-being through monetary valuation and highlight the dominance of market values over non-market values in highly intensive agroecosystems. The regulated deficit irrigation and incorporation crop residues to the soil practices emerge as the BMPs with the highest total economic value, surpassing the conventional management due to the relevance of its contributions to human well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101698"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}