A systematic review of cultural ecosystem services and valuation methods

Abstract

This work aimed to investigate the amount of scientific productions in relation to cultural ecosystem services and valuation methods. An analytical-documentary perspective was used to describe the state of the art of these valuation methods, their operational complexity and forms of application. A systematic review of the literature was carried out, in the quantitative, descriptive and analytical research section, we used the ISI Web of Science and Scopus databases, generating 1332 articles from which the following were extracted: year of publication, type of publication, number of citations, language, author, journal name, publisher, number of authors of each publication and impact factor. An increase in studies on cultural ecosystem services was verified over the years, since this quantity is associated with a greater number of citations and, consequently, with a high impact factor of the journals. Finally, cultural ecosystem services constitute a growing research field characterized by a growing number of publications from various academic disciplines.