Water availability was also addressed by studies examining potential impacts of indirect drivers, such as changes in life styles and consumption, and the intensification of direct drivers such as climate change, land use alteration, crop intensification, and urbanization (e.g. Herzig et al. (2016); Yang et al. (2016). In general, however, regional scenario exercises generally lacked assessments of cultural or nonmaterial ecosystem services, probably due to lack of well established models and methods, highlighting a significant research gap.