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Evidence of Similarities in Ecosystem Service Flow across the Rural-Urban Spectrum [PDF]
Land, 2021 In 2006, the world’s population passed the threshold of being equally split between rural and urban areas. Since this point, urbanisation has continued, and the majority of the global population are now urban inhabitants.
Indunee Welivita +11 more
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An Infodynamic Engine Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Information Flow in a Product-Service System [PDF]
, 2009 Organised by: Cranfield UniversityIn this paper, literature was used to identify and present a worked example of the use of an Infodynamic engine. It shows that: (a) Product-Service System (PSS) information flows can be characterised by such an engine;
Alcock, Jeffrey R. +2 more
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Dynamic and maintenance of water purification ecosystem service in the Guandu River Hydrographic Region, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]
RBRH, 2023 The present study aimed to develop a methodology for analyzing the dynamics and maintenance of the water purification ecosystem service in the water bodies of the Guandu River Hydrographic Region, responsible for water supplying the Rio de Janeiro ...
Fábio Miranda Gomes Xavier +2 more
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Ecology and Society, 2014 Ecosystem services mapping and modeling has focused more on supply than demand, until recently. Whereas the potential provision of economic benefits from ecosystems to people is often quantified through ecological production functions, the use of and ...
Kenneth J. Bagstad +5 more
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Atmosphere, 2023 Wind erosion is a key global environmental problem. As an important protective measure to provide services to the ecosystems in wind-eroded areas, the wind erosion prevention service is of great significance to the management of wind and sand hazards and
Jinghu Pan, Juan Wei, Baicui Xu
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Linking landscape structure and ecosystem service flow
, 2023 Despite advances in understanding the effects of landscape structure on ecosystem services (ES), many challenges related to these complex spatial interactions remain.
Rhodes, Jonathan R. +8 more
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Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería, 2021 The purpose of this study was to relate different soil quality indicators with the ecosystem service of water flow regulation in an area of importance for the conservation of biodiversity in Mexico, through the analysis of soil profile samples. The term
Adriana Solis +2 more
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Prospering from nature: helping landowners protect and enhance ecosystem services [PDF]
, 2013 2 pagesAround the country, ranchers and family forest landowners face complex challenges that threaten their ability to stay on the land and maintain their operations.
University of Oregon. Ecosystem Workforce Program
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Mapping Ecosystem Services of Forest Stands: Case Study of Maamora, Morocco
Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2022 The concept of ecosystem services (ES) is increasingly used to analyze the relationships and interactions between humans and nature. Understanding the ecosystem services’ flow and the ecosystems’ capacity to generate these services is an essential ...
Abdelkader Benabou +6 more
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People and Nature, 2021 The fulfilment of the benefits resulting from services provided by nature requires an integrated framework that combines appropriate ecosystem service governance with spatially explicit models of service provision.
Jean Paul Metzger +8 more
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