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Alternative to Comprehensive Ecosystem Services Markets: The Contribution of Forest-Related Programs in New Zealand

Due to the public goods characteristics of many ecosystem services and their vital importance to human welfare, various mechanisms have been put in place to motivate private landowners in the provision of ecosystem services.
Bhatta, Arun, Bigsby, Hugh R., Cullen, Ross   +2 more
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Academic misconduct appeal services in China: Platform logics, self‐platformization and implications for integrity education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Academic misconduct appeal services have quietly emerged within China's education marketplace, with commercial agencies promoting themselves on social media to assist international students facing misconduct hearings. While existing research on academic integrity has emphasized prevention and detection, far less attention has been paid to what
Gengyan Tang, Sarah Elaine Eaton, Wei Cai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological and Cultural Ecosystem Services in Coastal Areas

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Coastal areas provide various benefits through regulating, provisioning, and cultural ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration, protection from coastal erosion, recreation, and ecotourism [...]
Mita Drius, Maria Laura Carranza, Robert Philipp Wagensommer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linking the nonmaterial dimensions of human-nature relations and human well-being through cultural ecosystem services. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2022
Huynh LTM, Gasparatos A, Su J, Dam Lam R, Grant EI, Fukushi K.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hong Kong's non‐local undergraduate recruitment: Policies, institutional practices and student perspectives

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Beneath the Hong Kong government's enthusiasm for recruiting non‐local undergraduates—including students from the Chinese Mainland and other international regions—lies a longstanding gap in understanding the core meanings and drivers shaping the territory's expanding focus on inward international student mobility (ISM).
Fang Gao, Wei Yan Xiong, Hei‐hang Hayes Tang, Xiao Han   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of climate change and different land uses on provisioning and cultural ecosystem services as perceived by stakeholder groups in southern Mongolia

Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences
Mongolia has one of the largest remaining grasslands in the world where these grasslands are vital for local livelihoods and the wellbeing of several endemic animals.
Batbayar Ganchudur, Tserennadmid Nadia Mijiddorj , Justine Shanti Alexander, Buyandelger Khishigzul, Chloe Lucas, Gustaf Samelius , Bayarsaikhan Uudus   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Revealing Spatial Patterns of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Four Agricultural Landscapes: A Case Study from Hangzhou, China. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
He S, Hu C, Li J, Wu J, Xu Q, Lin L, Zhu C, Li Y, Zhou M, Zhu L.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

More forest biofuels from Jämtland - ecosystem services tradeoffs

, 2012
With increasing European demand for biofuels, the interest for forest biomass from the northernboreal forests of Sweden will increase. Traditional optimization parameters like carbon footprint orlife cycle energy use will not be enough to ensure the ...
Fröling, Morgan,, Grönlund, Erik,, Fakhari Rad, Mohammad,   +2 more
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A study of ecosystem services that draw users to Tombstone Territorial Park and a review of potential conflict areas

, 2018
This study is an evaluation of the ecosystem services (ES) in Yukon's Tombstone Territorial Park (TTP), the spatial distribution of those ES and the location of potential user conflict areas within the park.
Morin, Amélie
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source