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The Role of Cultural Landscapes in the Delivery of Provisioning Ecosystem Services in Protected Areas [PDF]
Sustainability, 2019 The aim of this paper is to assess and highlight the significance of cultural landscapes in protected areas, considering both biodiversity and the delivery of provisioning ecosystem services.
Aguilera Aguilera, Pedro +2 more
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Land, 2019 This study investigates different provisioning services in the peri-urban landscapes of Manila conurbation through a case study of two villages in the Jala-Jala municipality of the Laguna de Bay area in the Philippines.
Shamik Chakraborty +3 more
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Advances in Meteorology, 2013 It is widely acknowledged that land use changes (LUC) associated with climate variations are affecting the human wellbeing. This paper conducted a revisit to relevant researches on the impacts of LUC on human wellbeing via specifically altering the ...
Xiangzheng Deng +4 more
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Sustainability, 2021 Understanding the ecosystem services provided by urban green spaces, in terms of their environmental, economic, and social benefits, is essential for a better management of area.
Arerut Yarnvudhi +5 more
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Towards an enhanced indication of provisioning ecosystem services in agro-ecosystems
Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 2021 Provisioning ecosystem services play a vital role in sustaining human well-being. Agro-ecosystems contribute a significant share of these services, besides food and fodder and also fuel and fibre as well as regulating and cultural ecosystem services ...
Claudia Bethwell +5 more
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Land, 2022 The water level of Qinghai Lake, the largest saltwater lake in China, has been rising consistently, which has altered the lake’s ecosystem service patterns and produced an unpredictable impact on local ecological security and sustainable development.
Lei Wang +9 more
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Trees, Forests and People, 2022 The participatory forest management (PFM) approach, as a policy decision, was introduced in Ethiopia in the 1990s to combat forest resource degradation and ensure decentralization in management.
Simegn Birhan Tessema, Diptimayee Nayak
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Q-Strategy: A Bidding Strategy for Market-Based Allocation of Grid Services [PDF]
, 2008 The application of autonomous agents by the provisioning and usage of computational services is an attractive research field. Various methods and technologies in the area of artificial intelligence, statistics and economics are playing together to ...
A. Sherstov +19 more
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The ecosystem services supplied by soil in relation to land use
Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2017 The concept of ecosystem services has become an important tool for modelling interactions between ecosystems and their external environment in terms of global bio-climatic changes. The provision of ecosystem services depends on biophysical conditions and
Jarmila Makovníková +2 more
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Ecosystem service trade-offs and land use among smallholder farmers in eastern Paraguay
Ecology and Society, 2015 The trade-off between economically critical provisioning services and environmentally sustaining supporting services often seems absolute. Yet, when land use is inefficient, managers may be able to increase provision of both economically and ecologically
Jake J. Grossman
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