Emergy-based evaluation of ecosystem services: Progress and perspectives

C Zhang, B Su, M Beckmann, M Volk - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review investigates the potential of the emergy analysis (EMA) as a new perspective
and approach to the worldwide used ecosystem services (ESs) framework to quantify and …

[HTML][HTML] Selection criteria for ecosystem condition indicators

B Czúcz, H Keith, J Maes, A Driver, B Jackson… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting
(SEEA EA) aims at regular and standardised stocktaking of the extent of ecosystems, their …

[HTML][HTML] Towards ecosystem service assessment: Developing biophysical indicators for forest ecosystem services

A Tiemann, I Ring - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Forests are specifically relevant for biodiversity and provide a wide range of ecosystem
services. However, Europe's forests and their services are threatened. Temperate, boreal …

Disentangling the ecosystem service 'flood regulation': Mechanisms and relevant ecosystem condition characteristics

Á Vári, Z Kozma, B Pataki, Z Jolánkai, M Kardos… - Ambio, 2022 - Springer
Riverine floods cause increasingly severe damages to human settlements and
infrastructure. Ecosystems have a natural capacity to decrease both severity and frequency …

Ecosystem services supply and demand mismatches and effect mechanisms in the mixed landscapes context

Y Sun, T Zhao, G Cotella, Y Liu - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Clarifying multiple relationships between ecosystem services (ES) supplies and socio-
economical demands is the prerequisite of spatial sustainability. Ecotones are specific …

Ecosystem services valuation: a review of concepts, systems, new issues, and considerations about pollution in ecosystem services

M Zandebasiri, H Jahanbazi Goujani… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Managers can determine the function of ecosystem services in decision-making processes
through valuation. Ecological functions and processes that benefit people lead to ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Inclusion of condition in natural capital assessments is critical to the implementation of marine nature-based solutions

SCL Watson, GJ Watson, NJ Beaumont… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Current approaches to measure ecosystem services (ES) within natural capital (NC) and
nature-based solutions (NbS) assessments are generally coarse, often using a single figure …

Valuing forest ecosystem services. Why is an integrative approach needed?

GE Baciu, CE Dobrotă, EN Apostol - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Among the many types of terrestrial ecosystems, forests have some of the highest levels of
biodiversity; they also have many interdependent economic, ecological and social functions …

National Ecosystem Services Assessment in Hungary: Framework, Process and Conceptual Questions

Á Vári, E Tanács, E Tormáné Kovács, Á Kalóczkai… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mapping and assessing ecosystem services (ES) projects at the national level have been
implemented recently in the European Union in order to comply with the targets set out in the …

[HTML][HTML] From simple to complex–comparing four modelling tools for quantifying hydrologic ecosystem services

B Decsi, T Ács, Z Jolánkai, MK Kardos, L Koncsos… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The pursuit of good management of our waters poses permanent challenges to the whole
society. Decision-makers often need to define appropriate and sustainable strategies on …