While studies have assessed the value of nature to people and the effects of nature’s services on quality of life, scholarship has less frequently focused on the formal and informal institutional systems that determine the type of access members of a community have to nature’s contributions. Berbes-Blazquez et al. (2016) identify three specific gaps in knowledge in this area: 1) data concerning the effects of improved ecosystem service flows on human well-being, when power dynamics impact the distribution of benefits; 2) data concerning the coproduction of ecosystem services, which involves a relationship between social and ecological systems; and 3) data concerning the historical factors that have shaped power relations between institutions and social groups that use and distribute ecosystem services.