Table S1.
The sample of 15 global cases in which InVEST was used in a policy decision context
| No. | Location | Decision context | Organizations of survey respondents |
| 1 | Belize | Spatial planning | Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute (national government) |
| 2 | Canada - West Coast Vancouver Island | Spatial planning | West Coast Aquatic (board with representation from local and provincial government, nine First Nations, conservation NGOs, and businesses) |
| 3 | Colombia - Cauca Valley Water Fund | Water funds | Cauca Valley Water Fund, The Nature Conservancy |
| 4 | Colombia - Cesar Department | Permitting & mitigation | The Nature Conservancy |
| 5 | China - Baoxing County, Hainan Island, Upper Yangtze River Basin | Spatial planning for Ecosystem Function Conservation Areas | Chinese Academy of Sciences, The Natural Capital Project |
| 6 | Himalayas (Bhutan, Nepal, India) | Spatial planning | WWF Eastern Himalayas Program |
| 7 | Latin America Water Funds Platform | Water funds | The Nature Conservancy |
| 8 | Indonesia - Borneo | Spatial planning, policy advocacy | WWF Indonesia |
| 9 | Indonesia - Sumatra | Spatial planning, Strategic Environmental Assessment | WWF Indonesia |
| 10 | Tanzania - Eastern Arc Mountains | PES & REDD planning, policy advocacy | Valuing the Arc project at Cambridge University and WWF |
| 11 | United States – Ft. Lewis-McChord and Ft. Pickett | Spatial planning for military installation activities | US Army and Air Force (Department of Defense) |
| 12 | United States -Galveston Bay in Texas | Hazard management, spatial planning, climate adaptation | SSPEED (Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters) Center led by Rice University, The Nature Conservancy marine science |
| 13 | United States -Monterey Bay in California | Climate adaptation | Santa Cruz County, Moss Landing Marine Labs of California State Universities |
| 14 | United States - North Shore of O‵ahu in Hawai‵i | Spatial planning | Kamehameha Schools (private land-owner) |
| 15 | Virungas Landscape - DRC, Uganda, Rwanda | Permitting & mitigation, Strategic Environmental Assessment | Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation |
Each case represents a data point in the analysis. Ruckelshaus et al. (2015) discusses cases in more detail.