ARIES (ARtificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services ): a new tool for ecosystem services assessment, planning, and valuation.

ARIES is a new methodology and web application meant to assess ecosystem services (ES) and illuminate their values to humans in order to make environmental decisions easier and more effective. By creating ad-hoc, probabilistic models of both provision and usage of ES in a region of interest, and mapping the actual physical flows of those benefits to their beneficiaries, ARIES helps discover, understand, and quantify environmental assets, and what factors influence their value according to explicit needs and priorities. In this contribution, we present the basic elements of the ARIES methodology and illustrate perspectives for integration of new ES thinking into science, decisionand policy-making.