Ecosystem Services

The course are well-organised and discuss ecosystem service at different aspect, including valuation, data collection and mapping, critique and mainstreaming at a very detail way.

It give a whole picture on what ecosystem service is and how it can affect policy making to achieve a sustainable development.

Awesome introduction to Ecosystem Services.

It is a very good introduction to Ecosystem Services.

Very interesting and inspiring course.

The videos and the transcription helped to make the course very interesting.

Very much appreciated the well balanced and critical perspectives and insightful practical examples.

This is not an easy topic, but this is well-done, well balanced, and brings many various different views, therefore including objectivity on the matter.

The course is well structured and gives a good insight into the idea of how ES operates and the challenges that it faces.

un curso muy completo con teoría, entrevistas y casos prácticos, las lecturas son muy buenas y Great instructors, guest speakers, diversity of topics, well structured format and great supplemental course materials make this course one of the most relevant and interesting classes I ever have taken.

What I really enjoy about this course is that there are so many different speakers from different sectors.

One of the more challenging courses I've done on Coursera, but I was really happy I learned so many new things.

That makes it interesting because it makes you aware of these different approaches of ecosystems services.

The professional quality of this MOOC makes it easy to follow.

I would like to suggest: (first) including a better substantiation of the ecological foundations of the approach considering that the implicit assumption of nature as “capital” offering “services” has a really weak conceptual base; (second) to profound on the issue of our limited capacity to discount the future where I see an interesting option to apply economic thinking to nature conservation; and (third) to include a more modern approach to decision making in political institutions.

Since the 1970’s we know in policy analysis pretty well that decision making is conditioned by consensus-conflict-processes and that information processing - even sophisticated one as proposed in the course - is considered in decision making only if it fits to the results of consensus-conflict processes.

Not only the content but also teachers make this course enjoyable.