The Role of Ecosystem Services in LandUse Planning

Ecosystems and their biodiversity provide a stream of essential goods and services, economic prosperity and other aspects of well-being for human life. Many ecosystem services are falling off, which ignoring theme in decision-making and development planning has potential impacts. Therefore, it is vital to ensure that ecosystem services are included in development planning, especially land-use planning. The purpose of this article is introducing methods for integrating ecosystem services in planning. This article is practical-development form and its methodology is descriptive. In this article, we tried to describe the relationship between ecosystem services and land use planning, besides defining theme. Hence, the methods for integrating ecosystem services in land use planning are intrduced, such as; IES, SEA and GI. Subsequently, by presenting case studies in China, Hawaii and the United Kingdom that used ecosystem services in land use planning, the role of integrated ecosystem services in land use planning has been identified. Finally, we tried to extract some principles for integrating ecosystem services into land use planning.