Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go?

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Valuing natural capital and ecosystem services toward the goals of efficiency, fairness, and sustainability (2020, background): “‘Centric’ with any prefix doesn’t really describe this complex interdependence (Costanza et al., 2017).”
Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function (2021, background): “…the ecosystem (Turner et al., 2000), and ecosystem services are the benefits that human populations obtain, directly and indirectly, from ecosystems (Boyd & Banzhaf, 2007; Costanza et al., 1997, 2017; Díaz et al., 2018; Lamarque et al., 2011; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005; Wallace, 2007).”
Agroforestry is paying off – Economic evaluation of ecosystem services in European landscapes with and without agroforestry systems (2019, methodology): “The ES valuation approach adopted a use value perspective, evolved to a monetary valuation and ended as exchange value or commodity (Costanza et al. 2017).”
Ecosystem services approach for community-based ecotourism: towards an equitable and sustainable blue economy (2020, background): “Historically, neoclassical economics has largely ignored the essential contribution of healthy ecosystems to human wellbeing in decision-making (Robert Costanza et al., 1997; Daly, 1968; Freeman et al., 1973; G omezBaggethun et al., 2010; Ross et al., 2019).”