Karl-Göran Mäler, Åsa Jansson and Sara Aniyar have written the article "Accounting for ecosystem services as a way to understand the requirements for sustainable development". They argue that ecosystem services should be included in economic accounts (Standard National Accounts), as long as we believe that these accounts should tell us something about our wellbeing.

- This requires measures of the ecosystem assets and their accounting prices, they say.

Article on Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Per Olsson, together with Terry Hughes, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and Resilience Centre Science Director Carl Folke, have contributed with the article "Navigating the transition to ecosystem-based management of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia".

In the article they analyze the strategies and actions that enable transitions toward ecosystem-based management, using the recent governance changes of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as a case study.

The study emphasizes the significance of stewardship that can change patterns of interactions among key actors and allow for new forms of management and governance to emerge in response to environmental change.

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