The overarching project report from the projects “Valuing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Germany“ and “Further developing nationwide indicators for cultural ecosystem services (KÖSL 2.0)” has been published. The two projects were supported by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation with funding from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection and addressed the nationwide assessment and mapping of potentials, supply, preferences, demand and actual use of landscapes for leisure and weekend recreation. The report presents the methodology and results created in the project. They can help to better consider these services of nature and landscape in planning processes. They have been and are continue to be adopted in various other projects at IUP (e.g. EE100, RESI, RegioBranding, GuteKüste) and beyond, and contribute to the German report on the state of ecosystems and their services to the EU (Target 2, Action 5 of the Biodiversity Strategy). To promote further dissemination of the results, the data generated are also freely available online.
The project report is published in the BfN Schriften (No. 659) and can be accessed HERE.
DOI 10.19217/skr659
The results datasets are available in the LUH data repository (HERE).
DOI 10.25835/0006102
