Marc, Will Allen, and Jim Sinner published a new article in Ecological Economics in which they discuss how ecosystem services concepts do political ‘work’ by constraining the kinds of processes considered and encouraging certain kinds of measurements over others. Read the article here.
Full citation: Tadaki, M., W. Allen and J. Sinner (2015). “Revealing ecological processes or imposing social rationalities? The politics of bounding and measuring ecosystem services.” Ecological Economics 118: 168-176. http://www.sciencedirect.com/