Ecotourism: A panacea or a predicament?

M Das, B Chatterjee - Tourism management perspectives, 2015 - Elsevier
The paper aims to provide a description of the vision and present practices of ecotourism.
Promotion of local livelihoods through ecotourism has been widely considered as an …

Current status and future prospects for the assessment of marine and coastal ecosystem services: a systematic review

C Liquete, C Piroddi, EG Drakou, L Gurney… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Research on ecosystem services has grown exponentially during the last
decade. Most of the studies have focused on assessing and mapping terrestrial ecosystem …

Nature-based solutions as a tool in the new circular economic model for climate change adaptation

AI Stefanakis, CSC Calheiros, I Nikolaou - Circular Economy and …, 2021 - Springer
While our modern global society enjoys the benefits of an economic growth that was never
seen before, at the same time, it is facing the existential threat of climate change. We now …

Review of valuation methods for mangrove ecosystem services

QT Vo, C Künzer, QM Vo, F Moder, N Oppelt - Ecological indicators, 2012 - Elsevier
The goods and services provided by natural ecosystems contribute to human well being,
both directly and indirectly. The ability to calculate the economic value of the ecosystem …

Ecosystem services: origins, contributions, pitfalls, and alternatives

S Lele, O Springate-Baginski, R Lakerveld… - Conservation and …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has taken the environmental science and policy
literature by storm, and has become almost the approach to thinking about and assessing …

The poverty–vulnerability–resilience nexus: Evidence from Bangladesh

S Akter, B Mallick - Ecological Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Vulnerability and resilience lie at the core of the new paradigm governing natural disaster
risk management frameworks. However, empirical understandings of socio-economic …

[HTML][HTML] An index for discrimination of mangroves from non-mangroves using LANDSAT 8 OLI imagery

K Gupta, A Mukhopadhyay, S Giri, A Chanda… - MethodsX, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last few decades several vegetation indices were used to map Mangrove forest
using satellite images. Difficulty still persists in discrimination of mangroves from non …

Ecosystem service valuations of mangrove ecosystems to inform decision making and future valuation exercises

N Mukherjee, WJ Sutherland, L Dicks, J Huge… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The valuation of ecosystem services is a complex process as it includes several dimensions
(ecological, socio-cultural and economic) and not all of these can be quantified in monetary …

Mangrove ecosystem service values and methodological approaches to valuation: where do we stand?

A Himes-Cornell, SO Grose… - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Mangroves, seagrass meadows, and salt marshes, collectively termed “Blue Forests,” are
counted among the most valuable and productive coastal ecosystems on the planet. A …

Blue carbon assessments of seagrass and mangrove ecosystems in South and Southeast Asia: Current progress and knowledge gaps

M Stankovic, AK Mishra, YP Rahayu, J Lefcheck… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Coastal blue carbon ecosystems can be an important nature-based solution for mitigating
climate change, when emphasis is given to their protection, management, and restoration …