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Soil health and ecosystem services: Lessons from sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Management practices to improve soil health influence several ecosystem services including regulation of water flows, changes in soil biodiversity and greenhouse gases that are important at local, regional and global levels.
Bolo, Peter Omondi   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Identifying and assigning values to the intangible cultural benefits of ecosystem services to traditional communities in South Africa

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2020
Cultural ecosystem services make an important and valuable contribution to human well-being. However, research efforts in relation to ecosystems do not reflect this value, with the majority focusing on provisioning service contributions in developed ...
Shaun Mowat, Bruce Rhodes
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial covariance between aesthetic value & other ecosystem services. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
Mapping the spatial distribution of ecosystem goods and services represents a burgeoning field of research, although how different services covary with one another remains poorly understood.
Stefano Casalegno   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Literature Review and Prospects for Future Research

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2013
Cultural ecosystem services constitute a growing field of research that is characterized by an increasing number of publications from various academic disciplines.
Andra Ioana. Milcu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Ecosystem Services of Geodiversity: A Case Study from Stránská skála (Brno, Czech Republic)

open access: yesLand, 2020
The concept of ecosystem services developed in the second half of the 20th century, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was crucial for its acceptance.
Lucie Kubalíková
doaj   +1 more source

Emerging Patterns in Cultural Ecosystem Services as Incentives and Obstacles for Raptor Conservation

open access: yesBirds, 2021
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment proposed four categories of ecosystem services as regulating, provisioning, supporting and cultural. Of these, cultural services have been the most difficult to quantify despite playing a key role in developing society’
Finbarr G. Horgan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social preferences for ecosystem services in a biodiversity hotspot in South America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Identifying which ecosystem services are relevant to different stakeholders and understanding stakeholders’ perceptions of such services is useful for making informed decisions, especially in regions of the world where the achievement of biodiversity ...
Bidegain, Iñigo   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Perceived cultural ecosystem services in Zaribar Coastal Park: Implications for tourist well-being [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society
Cultural ecosystem services embedded in urban green spaces play a vital yet often underappreciated role in shaping tourists’ well-being. This study investigates the perceived contributions of cultural ecosystem services to tourist well-being in
Arman Rastkhadiv   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Towards a “City in Nature”: Evaluating the Cultural Ecosystem Services Approach Using Online Public Participation GIS to Support Urban Green Space Management

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
The concept of cultural ecosystem services has been increasingly influential in both environmental research and policy decision making, such as for urban green spaces.
Yi Fan Koh, H. Loc, E. Park
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identifying hotspots and management of critical ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta Region, China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Rapid urbanization has altered many ecosystems, causing a decline in many ecosystem services, generating serious ecological crisis. To cope with these challenges, we presented a comprehensive framework comprising five core steps for identifying and ...
Cai, Wenbo   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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