Ecosystem-based approaches are vital to addressing environmental issues and are crucial to buffering human communities against the adverse effects of climate change (Jones et al., 2012). The impacts of ecosystem-based projects have been considered within a range of societal challenge areas, such as wetland management (Max Finlayson et al., 2011), as well as across cross-cutting challenges of biodiversity conservation, public health and well-being (Kloos & Renaud, 2016). In most instances, researchers have drawn upon the ecosystem services framework for assessing the biophysical or economic value of ecosystem-based approaches (Liquete et al., 2015; Green et al., 2016), and for examining the potential for synergies and trade-offs between bundles of ecosystem services (Mouchet et al., 2017).