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Analysis of ecosystem services provision in the Colombian Amazon using participatory research and mapping techniques [PDF]
, 2015 Over the last two decades indigenous peoples in the lower Caquetá River basin in Colombia have experienced detrimental changes in the provision of important ecosystem services in ways that have significant implications for the maintenance of their ...
Torres-Vitolas, Carlos A. +20 more
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Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment [PDF]
Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2015 This paper is about the practice of evaluating ecosystems on the basis of the cultural services they provide. My first aim is to assess the various objections that have been made to this practice. My second is to argue that when particular places are integral to people’s lives, their value cannot be adequately conceived in terms of the provision of ...
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Uncovering ecosystem service bundles through social preferences.
PLoS ONE, 2012 Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few studies have coped with the social-cultural dimension of ecosystem services, despite
Berta Martín-López +14 more
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Novel ecosystems and the emergence of cultural ecosystem services [PDF]
Ecosystem Services, 2014 Many landscapes are severely depleted of ecosystem services, especially industrial ones. Yet, abandoned and, in some cases, regenerating areas are often situated within a wider cultural landscape. With minimal further disturbance these ‘novel ecosystems’ have the potential for recovering some of the ecosystem services that were removed or impeded ...
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Cultural Ecosystem Services and Valuation Methods: A Systematic Review
, 2023 Los servicios ecosistémicos culturales (SEC) están asociados a la valoración humana no material de lugares y ecosistemas. En este artículo se realiza una revisión sistemática acerca de las investigaciones que abordan como tema los SEC y métodos de ...
Matos Márquez, Laura Andreína +2 more
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Identification of urban water bodies ecosystem services [PDF]
Acta Scientiarum Polonorum. Formatio Circumiectus, 2021 Aim of the study: The aim of the research is an analysis of the concept of ecosystem services in context of urban water bodies. In result of the study, final ecosystem services and the goods and benefits of urban aquatic ecosystems were identified ...
Mateusz Jakubiak, Krzysztof Chmielowski
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, 2015 Urban green infrastructure attracts growing attention for its potential as a nature-based strategy to improve quality of life through the provision of ecosystem services.
Gomez-Baggethun, Erik +3 more
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Co-production processes underpinning the ecosystem services of glaciers and adaptive management in the era of climate change [PDF]
, 2021 Pre-print / Óritrýnd útgáfa greinar © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Glaciers have been an increasingly studied topic in the ecosystem services (ES) literature, with 6 multiple scientific studies affirming a critical and diverse contribution ...
Davíðsdóttir, Brynhildur +3 more
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Land, 2023 Lake Karla is the first reconstructed lake in the EU, supporting agriculture, biodiversity and cultural activities and being part of the Natura 2000 protected area network.
Georgia Trakala +2 more
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Cultural ecosystem services as a gateway for improving urban sustainability
, 2015 Quality of life in cities depends, among other things, on ecosystem services (ES) generated locally within the cities by multifunctional blue and green infrastructure.
Andersson, Erik, +3 more
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