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Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study...
Despite a growing number of national-scale ecosystem service (ES) assessments, few studies consider the impacts of ES use and consumption beyond national or regional boundaries.... -
Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized knowledge from case stud...
Abstract Concerns over rapid widespread changes in social-ecological systems and their consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, food security, and human... -
‘Mind the Gap’ between ecosystem services classification and strategic decisi...
Ecosystem services (ES) are increasingly embedded in policy agendas, but if and how policy actors are considering them is not often reported. This study assesses the extent to... -
Modelling food security
Achieving food and nutrition security for all in a changing and globalized world remains a critical challenge of utmost importance. The development of solutions benefits from... -
Austria's consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions can be addressed at the points of both production and consumption of goods and services. In a world of inhomogeneous climate policy, missing out... -
Avoiding or mitigating flooding: Bottom-up drivers of urban resilience to cli...
Abstract Coastal areas around the world are urbanizing rapidly, despite the threat of sea level rise and intensifying floods. Such development places an increasing number of... -
Evaluation of cultural ecosystem services : a review of methods
Abstract Cultural ecosystem services (CES) refer to the nonmaterial benefits people obtain from ecosystems, and they have direct influence on quality of life. Although the... -
Experiment-based policy change over time
This study provides insight into the potential of experiment-based policy making to address complex environmental challenges. The investigation shows the usefulness of making an... -
A framework for valuing spatially targeted peatland restoration
Recent evidence suggests that the degree of degradation of peatlands is substantial, and that there is a significant potential to enhance the delivery of a wide range of... -
Integrated assessment of biomass supply and demand in climate change mitigati...
Abstract Biomass is often seen as a key component of future energy systems as it can be used for heat and electricity production, as a transport fuel, and a feedstock for... -
The roads ahead : Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing wor...
Long-term scenarios play an important role in research on global environmental change. The climate change research community is developing new scenarios integrating future... -
Down to Earth
The ‘Anthropocene’ is now being used as a conceptual frame by different communities and in a variety of contexts to understand the evolving human–environment relationship.... -
Interregional flows of ecosystem services
Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity of flows of ecosystem services across geographic boundaries. Failing to understand and... -
Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic...
Densely populated floodplains downstream of Asia’s mountain ranges depend heavily on mountain water resources, in particular for irrigation. An intensive and complex... -
The social impacts of dams : A new framework for scholarly analysis
No commonly used framework exists in the scholarly study of the social impacts of dams. This hinders comparisons of analyses and thus the accumulation of knowledge. The aim of... -
taking responsibility for the whole
Sustainable development is a concept that has quickly risen to prominence both in academic work and in policymaking at all levels, particularly since 1987 when the World... -
Understanding the contribution of non-carbon dioxide gases in deep mitigation...
In 2010, the combined emissions of methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and the fluorinated gasses (F-gas) accounted for 20-30% of Kyoto emissions and about 30% of radiative... -
The current and future value of nature-based tourism in the Eastern Arc Mount...
The financial benefit derived from nature-based tourism in the Eastern Arc Mountains (EAMs) of Tanzania has never been assessed. Here, we calculate the producer surplus (PS)...
