Note: Intro -- Colophon -- Content -- Executive summary -- Aknowledgements -- Comprehensive summary and conclusions -- Concepts -- Choice of ecosystem services as examples -- Links between ecosystem functions, processes and services - complexities and potential solutions? -- Use of descriptors for the assessment -- The valuation experiences and usefulness for ecosystem services assessment -- The case study -- Conclusions -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Background and focus of the report -- 1.2 The steps of marine ecosystem services assessments -- 1.3 The content and approaches used in this report -- 1.4 The outline of the report -- 2. Classification of marine ecosystem services -- 2.1 The need for classification systems and concepts for ecosystem services assessments -- 2.2 Classification systems used for ecosystem services -- 2.2.1 The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment -- 2.2.2 The Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) -- 2.2.3 The economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) -- 2.2.4 The common framework for mapping and assessment of ecosystem services (MAES) -- 2.2.5 THE UK NEA approach -- 2.2.6 Other approaches -- 2.2.7 Evaluation of approaches for marine ES classifications -- 3. Ecosystem Services provided by the Baltic Sea - choice of examples -- 3.1 Choice of ecosystem services for the analyses in the report -- 3.2 Commercial fisheries -- 3.3 Mitigation of eutrophication and sediment retention -- 3.4 Marine and coastal tourism and recreation -- 4. Ecosystem Services, ecosystem structures and processes in the Baltic Sea -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Marine ecosystem components providing eutrophication mitigation service -- 4.3 Marine ecosystem components providing the flow of ecosystem service "wild fish for food' -- 4.4 Possibilities and proposals for mapping the ecosystem services. , 5. Linking selected ecosystem goods and services to descriptors and indicators of good environmental status -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Connecting ecology and economics -- 5.2 Cultural service: Recreation -- 5.2.1 Links to descriptors and indicators -- 5.3 Provisioning service: Wild fish for Food -- 5.3.1 Links to descriptors and indicators -- 5.4 Maintenance/regulating services: Sediment retention -- 5.5 Concluding remarks and discussion -- 6. Literature study on the value of marine ecosystem services -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Previous reviews of the value of marine ecosystem services -- 6.3 Valuation of ecosystem services -- 6.3.1 Critical issues in the economic valuation of ecosystem services -- 6.4 From goods to values and benefits -- 6.4.1 Recreation -- 6.4.2 Food -- 6.4.3 Eutrophication mitigation -- 6.5 Evaluation of literature -- 6.5.1 Descriptors of environmental status -- 6.5.2 Critical issues in valuation -- 6.6 Concluding remarks and discussion -- 7. Case study on seaside recreation in Denmark and Sweden -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 About the survey -- 7.2.1 The structure of the survey and the main questions in the questionnaire -- 7.2.2 Sampling procedure and region -- 7.2.3 The design of the choice experiment -- 7.2.4 Attributes in the choice experiment -- 7.3 Implementation of the Danish case study -- 7.3.1 Focus group testing in Denmark -- 7.3.2 Pilot testing in Denmark -- 7.4 Results from the Danish case study -- 7.4.1 Descriptive statistics -- 7.5 Implementation of the Swedish case study -- 7.5.1 Focus group testing in Sweden -- 7.5.2 Pilot testing in Sweden -- 7.6 Results from the Swedish case study -- 7.6.1 Descriptive statistics -- 7.7 Conclusions and discussion -- 8. Conclusions and discussions -- References -- Dansk sammenfatning -- Udvidet dansk sammendrag med konklusioner. , Koncepter og tilgange til analysen af økosystemtjenester -- Valg af eksempler på økosystemtjenester -- Sammenhænge mellem økosystemfunktioner, - processer og - tjenester - kompleksiteter og potentielle løsninger? -- Anvendelsen af indikatorer og deskriptorer -- Værdisætningsstudier - erfaringer samt anvendelighed i forhold til opgørelse af økosystemtjenester -- Casestudiet -- Resultater - analyseramme -- Konklusioner -- Appendix - The questionnaire used in the case study -- Questionnaire -- Dear panellist -- Abstract.