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Nature like setting. Cultural ecosystem services and disservices of French urban green spaces [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceSociety has a growing interest for urban nature. The decision-makers have to take this concern into account but they need to know the fallouts of nature for their municipalities, their citizens and the tourists.
Robert, Amélie, Yengué, Jean Louis
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Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China [PDF]
, 2015 Nature-based tourism in protected areas, which is growing worldwide, offers much potential to enhance biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation, and ultimately sustainable development.
He, G. +5 more
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Report About the NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards in 2015 [PDF]
With support from NASA and Michigan State University (MSU), 17 "NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award" recipients were able to attend the 2015 World Congress of Landscape Ecology.
Gutman, George, Liu, Jianguo (Jack)
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Thinking through connections in food and energy transitions [PDF]
, 2020 Peer ...
Becker, Sören, Friis, Cecilie
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Impacts of Western lifestyles in a telecoupled world
, 2023 Human use of natural resources is exceeding the planet's ecological ceilings. To reverse this trend, sustainable production and consumption was placed on the global governance agenda at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Since then, a large number of empirical studies have been carried out to characterise the environmental impact of consumption ...
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Urban water sustainability: framework and application
Ecology and Society, 2016 Urban areas such as megacities (those with populations greater than 10 million) are hotspots of global water use and thus face intense water management challenges.
Wu Yang +17 more
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Explanations in Telecoupling Research
, 2019 This chapter discusses how explanations can be built in telecoupling research and for what purposes. Explanations in human-environment (H-E) systems build on the deductive, inductive and abductive approaches and have to balance the identification of regularities and general mechanisms with contextual interpretation of contingencies.
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Environmental Research Letters, 2014 Global land acquisitions, often dubbed ‘land grabbing’ are increasingly becoming drivers of land change. We use the tools of network science to describe the connectivity of the global acquisition system.
J W Seaquist +2 more
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Governing flows in telecoupled land systems
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2019 The increasing global interconnectivity influencing land system change brings with it new challenges for land-system science. We evaluate whether recent land-system science (LSS) research into telecoupling provides a basis to set normative goals or priorities for addressing sustainability in coupled human-natural systems.
Munroe, Darla K +8 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2019 A critical frontier of water management in the western US is the challenge of cross-scale interactions. It is difficult to establish clear governance boundaries and collectively act when basins are interconnected, surface water and groundwater flows are ...
Abigail M York +2 more
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