Assessing Ecosystem Impacts on Health: a Tool Review

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Appendix B: found and recommended tools

The table below shows all possible tools and possibly generalizable methods that we found by a search engine and/or that were recommended by a relevant organization or tool developer as explained in Chapter 2. The table also indicates if it met our exclusion criteria for review.

Table B.1: possible tools and possibly generalizable methods found by a search engine and/or recommended by a relevant organization

Name / Type (or objective) / Reference / Identified through search engine/retrievable through search string / Recommended by relevant organization/tool developer
Included in review
i-Tree Eco / Model - software application / Publication: Baró et al. (2014)- on air pollution / Yes / Yes
EnviroAtlas Interactive Map (US Environmental Protection Agency) / Map – Interactive map containing selectable ecosystem service and socio-economic layers. / enviroatlas.epa.gov/enviroatlas/InteractiveMapEntrance/InteractiveMap. Publication: Pickard et al. (2015) / Yes / Yes
ARIES / Model – Spatially explicit model (current focus on stand-alone, also web-based) / Publication: Villa et al.(2014a) / Yes / No
InVEST (Natural Capital Project) / Model – Spatially explicit model (stand-alone) / Publication: TallisPolasky (2009) / Yes / Yes
MIMES / Model - A multi-scale, integrated set of models. (Declarative system dynamics model.) / Publication: Boumans et al. (2015) / Yes / No
TESSA / Toolkit / Publication: Peh et al. (2013) / Yes / Yes
The Eco-Health Relationship Browser / Interactive Framework (web-based) / Publication: Jackson et al. (2013b) / Yes / Yes
SolVES (USGS) / Model - Spatially explicit model (application for use within GIS software) / solves.cr.usgs.gov. Publication: Sherrouse et al. (2011) / Yes / No
Green Infrastructure Valuation Toolkit / Toolkit - set of individual spreadsheet-based tools / / No / Yes
Coastal Resilience mapping portal / Map - Interactive map / toolkit / maps.coastalresilience.org/network/ / No / Yes
TEEB-stad tool / Benefit quantification and analysis tool / / No / Yes
Excluded from review
Assessing socio-economic benefits of Natura 2000 (Institute for European Environmental Policy) / Toolkit / Publication: Kettunen et al. (2009) / Yes / No
ESP Visualization Tool (Ecosystem Service Partnership) / Map – Interactive Map containing selectable ecosystem service layers. / esp-mapping.net. Publication: Drakou et al. (2015) / No / Yes
Operational framework for integrated environmental health impact assessment / Assessment Framework / Publication: Briggs (2008) / Yes / No
Recreation Potential Assessment at Large Spatial Scales / Assessment Framework – including methods such as linear regression modeling / Publication: WeylandLaterra (2014) / Yes / No
ATEAM vulnerability-mapping tool / Mapping tool / Publication: Metzger et al.(2008), Metzger et al. (2006) / Yes / No
‘Green cities: Good Health’ (a compilation and review of studies on nature and human health), / Literature database / / No / Yes
Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework / Database and classification framework / / No / Yes
The Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH) / Map database / / No / Yes
The Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR) / regional visualization and
monitoring system
for environmental and disaster management. / / No / Yes
Ecosystem Management Decision Support / / No / Yes
Louisiana Bucket Brigade’s map of environmental and chemical accidents / Interactive map / / No / Yes
Sustainable Sites Initiative / Rating system / / No / Yes
Applying an Ecohealth Perspective in a State of the Environment Report: Experiences of a Local Public Health Unit in Canada / Framework / Publication: Lam et al. (2015) / No / Yes
The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review / Analytical framework and spreadsheet / Publication: Hanson et al. (2012) / Yes / No
LUCI / Polyscape / GIS toolbox / Publication: Jackson et al. (2013a) / Yes / No
EcoServ / Model / Publication: Feng et al. (2011) / Yes / No
Co$ting Nature / Web-based tool / / Yes / No
Ecosystem Valuation Toolkit (EVT) / Database and web-based quantification tool / / Yes / No
Malaria Atlas Project / Database - concerning survey data and maps / / No / Yes
Ocean Health Index / Displays ocean capacity to deliver benefits and resources / Publication: Halpern et al. (2012) / No / Yes
Atlas NatuurlijkKapitaal (Dutch) / Aim: benefit sustainably from the values that our environment offers us / / No / Yes
BiodiverCity (Dutch) / Aim: calculate a score biodiversity based on the green and blue design of an urban area / / No / Yes
AVANAR / Model / Publication: Ottens & Timmermans (2004) / No / Yes
GLAM / Model / Publication: De Vries et al. (2007), Farjon & Van Hinsberg, (2015) / No / Yes
The REDD Game: A didactic tool for designing effective, efficient and equitable policies to deliver REDD in Bolivia / Simulation tool (model) / / No / Yes
Safe operating spaces for regional rural development: a new conceptual tool for evaluating complex socio-ecological system dynamics / Framework and tool / Publication: Dearing et al. (2014) / No / Yes
Integrating a web-based ecosystem services monitoring and modelling tool into local decision making process for poverty alleviation in a high mountainous region of Nepal / Web-based ecosystem services monitoring and modelling tool / / No / Yes
Movement model to assess the impact of landscape fragmentation on disease transmission / Agent-based model / Publication: Tracey et al.(2014) / Yes / No
HUMPOL: The Hull pollen deposition model / Model / Publication: Bunting & Middleton (2005) / Yes / No

Reference list found and recommended tools

Baró, F. Chaparro, L, Gómez-Baggethun, E, Langemeyer, J, Nowak, D.J., & Terradas, J., Contribution of ecosystem services to air quality and climate change mitigation policies: The case of urban forests in Barcelona, Spain. Ambio, 43(4), 2014, 466-479. doi: 10.1007/s13280-014-0507-x.

Boumans, R., Roman, J., Altman, I., & Kaufman, L. (2015). The Multiscale Integrated Model of Ecosystem Services (MIMES): Simulating the interactions of coupled human and natural systems. Ecosyst. Serv., 12(0), 2015, 30-41,doi:

Briggs D.J., A framework for integrated environmental health impact assessment of systemic risks, Environ. Health7 (61), 2008, 252–253.

Bunting M.J. and Middleton D., Modelling pollen dispersal and deposition using HUMPOL software, including simulating windroses and irregular lakes, Rev. Palaeobot.Palynol.134 (3–4), 2005, 185–196,

De Vries S., Roos-Klein Lankhorst J. and Buijs A.E., Mapping the attractiveness of the Dutch landscape: a GIS-based landscape appreciation model(Glam-2),Landsc. Res.81 (1/2), 2007, 43–58.

Dearing John A., Wang Rong, Zhang Ke, Dyke James G., Haberl Helmut, Hossain Md. Sarwar and Poppy Guy M., Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems, Glob. Environ. Chang.28, 2014b, 227–238,

Drakou E.G., Crossman N.D., Willemen L., Burkhard B., Palomo I., Maes J. and Peedell S., A visualization and data-sharing tool for ecosystem service maps: Lessons learnt, challenges and the way forward, Ecosyst. Serv. 2015, 0),

Farjon, H., & Van Hinsberg, A. (2015). Review landscape appreciation model: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

Feng M., Liu S., Euliss N.H., Jr, Young C. and Mushet D.M., Prototyping an online wetland ecosystem services model using open model sharing standards, Environ. Model.Softw.26 (4), 2011, 458–468,

Halpern B.S., Longo C., Hardy D., McLeod K.L., Samhouri J.F., Katona S.K. and Zeller D., An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean, Nature 488 (7413), 2012, 615–620 〈〈

Hanson, C., Ranganathan, J., Iceland, C, & Finisdore, J. (2012).The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review - Guidelines for Identifying Business Risks and Opportunities Arising from Ecosystem Change (Version 2.0 ed., pp. 211). Brussels: WRI.

Harrison P.A., Berry P.M., Simpson G., Haslett J.R., Blicharska M., Bucur M. and Turkelboom F., Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services: a systematic review, Ecosyst. Serv.9, 2014b, 191–203,

Jackson, B., Pagella, T., Sinclair, F., Orellana, B., Henshaw, A., Reynolds, B., . . .Eycott, A. (2013a). Polyscape: A GIS mapping framework providing efficient and spatially explicit landscape-scale valuation of multiple ecosystem services. Landscape and Urban Planning, 112, 74-88. doi:

Jackson L.E., Daniel J., McCorkle B., Sears A. and Bush K.F., Linking ecosystem services and human health: the Eco-Health Relationship Browser, Int. J. Public Health 58, 2013, 747-75–5,

Kettunen M., Bassi S., Gantioler S. and Ten Brink P., Assessing socio-economic benefits of natura 2000-A toolkit for practitioners, 2009a, Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP); Brussels.

Lam S., Leffley A. and Cole D.C., Applying an ecohealth perspective in a state of the environment report: experiences of a local public health unit in Canada, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health12 (1), 2015, 16–31,

Mace G., Masundire H. and Baillie J., Biodiversity, In: Hassan R., Scholes R. and Ash N., (Eds.), Ecosystems and Human Well-being,Volume 1, 2005, Current State and Trends; Washington DC.

Mathers C. and Stevens G., WHO methods and data sources for global burden of disease estimates 2000-2011, 2013a, WHO; Geneva.

Metzger M.J., Rounsevell M.D.A., Acosta-Michlik L., Leemans R. and Schröter D., The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change, Agriculture, Ecosyst. Environ.114 (1), 2006, 69–85,

Metzger M.J., Schröter D., Leemans R. and Cramer W., A spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of ecosystem service change in Europe, Reg. Environ. Chang.8 (3), 2008, 91–107,

Ottens, H.F.L., & Timmermans, H.J.P. (2004).AVANAR; Afstemming Vraag en Aanbod Natuur als Recreatieruimte-Auditverslag: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

Peh, K.S.H., Balmford, A., & Bradbury, R.B. (2013). TESSA: A toolkit for rapid assessment of ecosystem services at sites of biodiversity conservation importance. Ecosystem Services, 5, e51–e57.

Pickard, B.R., Daniel, J., Mehaffey, M., Jackson, L.E., & Neale, A. (2015).EnviroAtlas: A new geospatial tool to foster ecosystem services science and resource management. Ecosystem Services, 14, 45-55. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.04.005

Sherrouse, B.C., Clement, J.M., & Semmens, D.J. (2011).A GIS application for assessing, mapping, and quantifying the social values of ecosystem services.Applied Geography, 31, 748-760.

Tallis H. and Polasky S., Mapping and valuing ecosystem services as an approach for conservation and natural-resource management,

Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.1162, 2009, 265–283.

Tracey J.A., Bevins S.N., VandeWoude S. and Crooks K.R., An agent-based movement model to assess the impact of landscape fragmentation on disease transmission, Ecosphere 5 (9), 2014,

Villa F., Bagstad K.J. and Voigt B., A methodology for adaptable and robust ecosystem services assessment, PLoS ONE9, 2014a, e91001.

Von Döhren P. and Haase D., Ecosystem disservices research: a review of the state of the art with a focus on cities, Ecol. Indic. 52 (0), 2015a, 490–497,

Weyland F. and Laterra P., Recreation potential assessment at large spatial scales: A method based in the ecosystem services approach and landscape metrics, Ecol. Indic.39, 2014, 34–43.