SolVES Tool

Publications:

Journal Articles:

Ancona, Z.H., D.J. Semmens, and B.C. Sherrouse. 2016, Social-value maps for Arapaho, Roosevelt, Medicine Bow, Routt, and White River National Forests, Colorado and Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5019.

Bagstad, K.J., Reed, J.M., Semmens, D.J., Sherrouse, B.C., and Troy, A. 2016, Linking social values and ecosystem services: Social-ecological hotspots for public lands management. Regional Environmental Change 16(7):2005-2018.

Bagstad, K.J., Semmens, D.J., Ancona Z., and Sherrouse, B. In press. Understanding biophysical and cultural ecosystem service hotspots for natural resource planning. Forthcoming in: Landscape Ecology.

Sherrouse, B.C., Clement, J.M. and Semmens, D.J., 2011, A GIS application for assessing, mapping, and quantifying the social values of ecosystem services: Applied Geography v. 31, no. 2, p. 748-760. [doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.08.002]

Sherrouse, B.C., and Semmens, D.J., 2014, Validating a method for transferring social values of ecosystem services between public lands in the Rocky Mountain region:. Ecosystem Services, v. 8, p. 166-177. [doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.03.008].

Sherrouse, B.C., Semmens, D.J., and Clement, J.M., 2014, An application of Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) to three national forests in Colorado and Wyoming: Ecological Indicators, v. 36, p. 68-79. [doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.07.008]

van Riper, C.J., Kyle, G.T., Sutton, S.G., Barnes, M., and Sherrouse, B.C., 2012, Mapping outdoor recreationists' perceived social values for ecosystem services at Hinchinbrook Island National Park, Australia: Applied Geography, v. 35, no. 1-2, p. 164-173. [doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.06.008]

van Riper, C.J., Kyle, G.T., Sherrouse, B.C., Bagstad, K.J., and Sutton, S.G., 2017, Toward an integrated understanding of perceived biodiversity values and environmental conditions in a national park. Ecological Indicators 72:278-287.

van Riper, C.J. and G.T. Kyle. 2014, Capturing multiple values of ecosystem services shaped by environmental worldviews: A spatial analysis. Journal of Environmental Management 145:374-384.

Fact Sheet:

Sherrouse, B.C. and Semmens, D.J., 2010, Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES)−Using GIS to include social values information in ecosystem services assessments: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2010−3118, 2 p.