ARIES – mapping natural capital and ecosystem services
This ecosystem service modelling approach can be used to quantify and map ecosystem service benefits, account for their dynamics and optimise payment for ecosystem services and other management schemes.
Organisation: ARIES
Valuing the Benefits, Costs and Impacts of Ecosystem-based Adaptation Measures
This report offers guidance on valuing the benefits of ecosystem (including forest) management and restoration for climate change adaptation. It includes valuation methods and practical examples, as well as consideration of how to leverage the valuations for strategic impact.
Organisation: GIZ
Natural Capital Protocol Toolkit
A collection of tools that allows users to find appropriate tools for measuring and valuing natural capital. It is specifically intended for businesses that wish to understand their dependencies and impacts on natural capital.
Organisation: Natural Capital Protocol
InVEST
InVEST is a set of software models to map and value ecosystem services. It can be used to assess trade-offs of management decisions and identify spatial locations for management or restoration interventions.
Organisation: Natural Capital Project
Ecosystem Services Assessment Support Tool
This support tool offers a step-by-step approach to conducting and using ecosystem services assessments.
Organisation: Wageningen and SYKE
Ecosystem Services Identification and Inventory Tool
An iPad app and web interface that helps businesses to collect ecological data and data on local ecosystem services, for use in reducing business impacts, exploring scenarios and several other purposes.
Organisation: TNC, Dow, EcoMetrix Solutions Group
i-Tree
i-Tree enables analysis of benefits provided by forests, threats to forests, and forest structure, to inform forest management decision making.
Organisation: USDA Forest Service
ORVal (Outdoor Recreation Valuation Tool)
ORVal estimates the monetary value of outdoor recreation in green spaces (including forest) in England.
Organisation: University of Exeter
Approaches and tools for assessing mountain forest ecosystem services
Guidance on identifying and reviewing tools for assessing socio-cultural, economic and ecological values of ecosystem services and the particular challenges of mountain forests.
Organisation: CIFOR
Mapping Ecosystem Services to Human wellbeing (MESH)
MESH allows users to map ecosystem service supply under different landscape management scenarios to assess trade-offs in decision making.
Organisation: Natural Capital Project
Scenario Hub
The hub provides guidelines, tools and advice on developing and using scenarios to assess changes in ecosystem services under different management decisions.
Organisation: Natural Capital Project and WWF
HABEas Project
This website provides free data on biodiversity and ecosystem services in some Mediterranean countries displayed in a web GIS format.
Organisation: WWF, Associação Natureza Portugal, Centre of Applied Ecology at University of Lisbon