Abstrakt
In response to the increasing popularity of the ecosystem services concept among scholars and policy makers on the international level, it has become time to analyse the current state and possibilities for national policy and decision-making in reflecting this concept. This article presents a sneak preview of research focused on content analysis of environmental policy documents.
Two current and one outdated climate change policy document are analysed regarding notions of the ecosystem services concept and other aspects of an ecosystem-based approach. The output data show contrasting results, with the Adaptation Strategy scoring very high compared to the Climate Protection Policy, which almost does not reflect the ecosystem services or related ecosystem approach.
Implications of the results and the entire context of the research are discussed in respective sections.