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"The Concept of Ecosystem Services Regarding Landscape Research: A Review"

Anna Hermann and Sabine Schleifer and Thomas Wrbka

	Abstract
1	Introduction
2	Definitions of the different key terms
3	Classification systems and their different typologies
	3.1	Presentation of five selected classification systems
	3.2	Comparison of different typologies
	3.3	The problem of double counting
	3.4	Further developments of classification systems
4	Quantifying and mapping
5	Valuation
	5.1	The ecological, economic and socio-cultural value of ecosystems
	5.2	Different valuation methods
6	Discussion
	6.1	Definitions and classifications – a challenge
	6.2	Quantifying and mapping – their limitations
	6.3	Multifunctionality
	6.4	Different disciplines – advantages or hindrances?
	6.5	Valuation and the future generation
7	Acknowledgements
	References
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Figure 3: Conceptual relationship between Intermediate and Final Services; Structure and Processes become Intermediate Services if there are humans that benefit from them. Interactions among several Intermediate Services produce Final Services such as “clean water provision” and “storm protection” (after Fisher et al., 2009).