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Urban pollution and ecosystem services [PDF]
, 2019 Urban pollutants can degrade and inhibit ecological functions and processes. Those natural processes provide vital benefits and services to humans.
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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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The Role of Tourism Impacts on Cultural Ecosystem Services [PDF]
Environments, 2019 Parks and protected areas are recognized for the important ecosystem services, or benefits, they provide society. One emerging but understudied component is the cultural ecosystem services that parks and protected areas provide. These cultural ecosystem services include a variety of benefits, such as cultural heritage, spiritual value, recreation ...
B. Derrick Taff +4 more
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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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Crowdsourcing indicators for cultural ecosystem services : a geographically weighted approach for mountain landscapes [PDF]
, 2016 This study was partially supported by the OpenNESS project funded from the European Union's Seventh Programme for research; technological development and demonstration under grant agreement n° 308428.Integrating cultural dimensions into the ecosystem ...
Demsar, Urska +2 more
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The impact of flooding on aquatic ecosystem services [PDF]
, 2018 Flooding is a major disturbance that impacts aquatic ecosystems and the ecosystem services that they provide. Predicted increases in global flood risk due to land use change and water cycle intensification will likely only increase the frequency and ...
Bennett, Elena M. +10 more
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The Role of Soil in Ecosystem Services
Türkiye Tarımsal Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2022 The contributions of the structure and functions of the ecosystem to human welfare are defined as ecosystem services. Soils provide a wide range of goods and services called ecosystem services, such as provisioning (e.g., freshwater, wood, food, and ...
Safiye BÜLBÜL +3 more
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Geodiversity Supports Cultural Ecosystem Services: an Assessment Using Social Media
Geoheritage, 2022 Geodiversity is under threat from both anthropogenic activities and environmental change which therefore requires active management in the form of geoconservation to minimise future damage. As research on the role of geodiversity on ecosystem service (ES)
Nathan Fox +4 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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Integrating sciences to sustain urban ecosystem services [PDF]
, 2011 Effective water management within urban settings requires robust multidisciplinary understanding and an appreciation of the value added to urban spaces by providing multifunctional green-blue spaces.
Lundy, Lian, Wade, Rebecca
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