The integrative framework outlined

The integrative framework outlined in Fig. 1 relies heavily on a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach, thereby opening up valuation to bio-physical data as well as to information from simulation models and alternative survey techniques. Therefore, it provides a promising valuation protocol to assist new valuation studies addressing the issue of usefulness in the MFA assessment. However, to enhance the usefulness of economic valuation in the MFA context other standardisation issues need further development, namely the questions related to the validity standards and the benefits transferability.