The ecosystem services and natural capital of soils are often not recognised and generally not well understood. This paper addresses this issue by drawing on scientific understanding of soil formation, functioning and classification systems and building on current thinking on ecosystem services...

We respond to the recent commentary of Robinson and Lebron (in press) on our framework to quantify and value soil natural capital and ecosystem services (Dominati et al., 2010). We argue that the framework proposed by Robinson et al. (2009) and our framework (Dominati et al., 2010) should be...

Patterson M. G., McDonald G. W. and Smith N. J. Ecosystem service appropriation in the Auckland Region economy: an input-output analysis, Regional Studies. This paper assesses the appropriation of ecosystem services by the Auckland Region economy in New Zealand. A novel application of...