A broad range of agriculture-environment interactions can be organized around the concept of agriculture as a producer … and consumer of ecosystem services . Viewed as capital assets, ecosystems embody production technologies that are valuable …

present the results of a discrete choice experiment into the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. To … tackle complexity and unfamiliarity of soils, we express soil-based ecosystem service attributes relative to the site …-based ecosystem services. Only some measures of familiarity exhibit significant effects on preferences. …

This paper provides a brief overview of methods to incorporate ecosystem service values into measures of agricultural … total factor productivity, both in theory and in practice. This includes a review of the academic literature, summary of … related economic index theory, and comparison of agency guidelines. We consider areas of consensus between the agencies and …