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Describing Services for Service Ecosystems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Service ecosystems are electronic market places and emerge as a result of the shift toward service economies. The aim of service ecosystems is to trade services over the internet. There are still obstacles that impede this new form of market places.
Gregor Scheithauer   +2 more
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A framework for integrating systematic stakeholder analysis in ecosystem services research: Stakeholder mapping for forest ecosystem services in the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The concept of ecosystem services offers a useful framework for the systematic assessment of the multiple benefits ecosystems deliver. However, the anthropogenic focus of the concept also requires a detailed understanding of the stakeholders interested ...
Raum, S, Susanne Raum
core   +1 more source

Exploring perceptions of stakeholder roles in ecosystem services coproduction

open access: yes, 2021
Stakeholder groups engage in ecosystem services coproduction as both coproducers and beneficiaries. Stakeholder group perceptions of their own and each other's roles in ecosystem services coproduction therefore influence how ecosystem services are ...
C. Jericó-Daminello   +7 more
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An individual-based modelling approach to estimate landscape connectivity for bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2016
Background. Preserving connectivity, or the ability of a landscape to support species movement, is among the most commonly recommended strategies to reduce the negative effects of climate change and human land use development on species.
Corrie H. Allen   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Climatic Variability Caused by Topographic Barrier Prevents the Northward Spread of Invasive Ageratina adenophora

open access: yesPlants, 2022
Ageratina adenophora (Spreng.) R.M.King & H.Rob. is one of the most threatening invasive alien plants in China. Since its initial invasion into Yunnan in the 1940s, it spread rapidly northward to southern Mount Nyba in Sichuan, which lies on the eastern ...
Yi Zhang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agroforestry-Based Ecosystem Services

open access: yesLand, 2021
Agroforestry, land use at the agriculture-forestry interface that implies the presence of trees on farms and/or farmers in forests, has a history that may be as old as agriculture, but as an overarching label and topic of formal scientific analysis, it ...
Meine van Noordwijk
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling cultural ecosystem services (Case study: Recreational Ecosystem Services in Behbahan county) [PDF]

open access: yesعلوم محیطی, 2023
Extended abstractIntroduction: Goods and services that are provided by ecosystems in favorable environmental conditions, for the welfare of humans, are called ecosystem services.
Fatemeh Mohammadyari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Service-Dominant Ecosystem: Mapping a Service Dominant Strategy to a Product-Service Ecosystem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Nowadays product-oriented companies are facing the need to focus on the service rather than the product alone. By following a Service-Dominant Strategy, we need to focus on the ecosystem embodying the collaboration to provide such a service. This collaborative perspective on value creation and value sharing is the foundation for designing new business ...
Egon Lüftenegger   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Marine ecosystem services [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2017
Coastal and marine environments can begin up to 100 kilometers inland, extend to the continental shelf, and include ocean systems with waters up to 50 meters in depth. The distinct marine ecosystems found in these environments include estuarine and coastal wetlands, such as marshes and mangroves, sand beaches and dunes, seagrass beds, and coral and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2021
We propose an alternative methodology for engaging with multifaceted cultural ecosystem services (CES) in the Global South. We explore the use of dialogue as a tool for understanding CES in situ, while developing shared action steps toward CES ...
Karen E. Allen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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