Soil health and ecosystem services: Lessons from sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) [PDF]
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
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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
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Spatial covariance between aesthetic value & other ecosystem services. [PDF]
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
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Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Literature Review and Prospects for Future Research
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
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Cultural Ecosystem Services of Geodiversity: A Case Study from Stránská skála (Brno, Czech Republic)
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
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Emerging Patterns in Cultural Ecosystem Services as Incentives and Obstacles for Raptor Conservation
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
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Social preferences for ecosystem services in a biodiversity hotspot in South America [PDF]
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
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Perceived cultural ecosystem services in Zaribar Coastal Park: Implications for tourist well-being [PDF]
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
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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
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Identifying hotspots and management of critical ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta Region, China [PDF]
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
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