This article describes a composite indicator for ecosystem services. This composite is composed of several sub-indices, each representing either land use types or ecosystem …
In reaction to traditional environmental management approaches grounded on the paradigm 'control change in systems'(Quay 2010), ecosystem services (ES) have emerged as a novel …
Q Shao, L Peng, Y Liu, Y Li - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Urban areas are human–environmental systems that rely heavily on ecosystems for long- term sustainability, and ecosystems and their components are essential to city life. Previous …
T Söderman, L Kopperoinen, P Shemeikka… - Journal of …, 2012 - World Scientific
The ecosystem services criteria for strategic decision-making combine conceptualisation and concretisation of ecologically sustainable development. A concrete basis for the …
Ecosystem service research is high on the policy agenda. Strategies to synthesize individual success stories and derive generalized results to provide guidance for policymakers and …
P Bolund, S Hunhammar - Ecological economics, 1999 - Elsevier
Humanity is increasingly urban, but continues to depend on Nature for its survival. Cities are dependent on the ecosystems beyond the city limits, but also benefit from internal urban …
KJ Gaston, ML Ávila‐Jiménez… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Concomitant with the rise in the proportion of the global human population that resides in urban areas has been growth in awareness of the importance of the provision of ecosystem …
Because we have entered the 'millennium of the cities', urban ecological research needs to account for the provisions ecosystem services provide to urban regions. In urban areas …