Land use and climate change are important factors that help in driving changes in
ecosystem services (ES); understanding the mechanisms behind the changes is critical to …

As Europe transitions away from fossil fuel energy, the challenges associated with closing
mines, along with restructuring mine-dependent communities, continue to reduce the rate at …

Exploring the effects of landscape pattern changes on ecosystem services (ESs) and its
interactions could provide a new method to reduce the trade-offs between ESs from the …

The identification of trade-offs and synergies relationships among ecosystem services is one
of the important contents of evaluating the regional ecological environment, and is of great …

Clarifying the relationships among regional ecosystem service values is important for
ecosystem service management. However, most current studies are based on historical …

A clear understanding the relation between ecological protection and economic
development provides new insight into land use policies. Land use trade-offs and synergies …

Background The decision of the German federal government to cease lignite mining until
2038 or—if possible—already earlier until 2030, will cause manifold transition processes in …

Underground coal mining inevitably causes ground subsidence, especially in the coal-grain
composite area with a high groundwater table (HGT) in eastern China, where mining …

The interaction relationship of ecosystem services (ESs) is among the most critical objective
in natural resource management. However, a complexity of the spatial heterogeneity of …

Coal contributes considerably to economic and social development. Its economic benefits
have been in focus, whereas the ecosystem services (ESs) that coalfields provide have …