Agri-environmental-climate schemes provide payments for ecosystem services by compensating farmers to implement management actions or obtain ecological results. To compare farmer preferences for action-based schemes, result-based schemes, or a hybrid, we conduct a discrete choice experiment in a...

Understanding the perception of mangrove managers about the ecosystem services (ES) that mangrove provides is important for the efficient design of conservation policies. The present study analyzes the perception of the stakeholders using a quantitative analysis based on latent profile analysis...

With rapid urbanization, land use change has shown a close negative relationship with ecosystem services, especially in urban agglomerations. Thus, rational urban planning involving key ecosystem services (ESs) in highly urbanized areas has become urgent and crucial in urban ecology and urban...

Baiyangdian wetland is called “Kidney in north China”, providing a wide range of ecosystem services that are important for human wellbeing. In the past few decades, the water scarcity and eco-environmental problems resulted from climate changes and human activities have become more and more...

Since China proposed building a national park system in 2017, the establishment of a planning system for nature reserves, with national parks as the main body, is being actively promoted around the country. Among them, scientific ecological space management and control zoning (ESMCZ) is an...

Most freshwater ecosystems in the United States are in a state of collapse. Existing management efforts take a piecemeal approach, addressing individual stressors, managing the systems for individual benefits, and protecting individual species. These disjointed efforts are doomed to fail. Both...

Mangrove ecosystems along the coastline of Bangladesh offer a multitude of products and services but these are not being evaluated since we don't fully comprehend their importance. Additionally, these services are continually deteriorating as a result of both natural and manmade influences....

Land managers’ preferences towards practice- and outcome-based payments for ecosystem services are analysed using a labelled choice experiment applied to a Mediterranean oak savannah (dehesa or montado) as a case study. Results indicate that land managers prefer outcome- to practice-based...

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) represent a growing share of conservation efforts. To make the most of limited budgets, these programs must target participants and regions most likely to produce the greatest environmental gains while improving (or at least not reducing) economic wellbeing;...

Ecosystems, and the ecosystem services they deliver, are subject to increasing pressures. Sustainable management requires a thorough understanding of the physical and ecological functioning of the ecosystem, the services delivered by the ecosystem to society and the management measures that can...

Productive natural ecosystems are being lost and degraded by poorly planned and managed commercial and small-scale livelihood activities in Zimbabwe, and threats will be further exacerbated by climate change. This report identifies the drivers of ecosystem degradation and assesses the value of...

We investigate how reforestation contributed to stabilization of riverine water levels in South Korea. For the purpose, we estimate an equation capturing dynamic relationships among rainfall, upstream-area tree stock, and downstream water levels in three river systems of Hongcheon, Mangyeong,...

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) has introduced economic principles for water resource management, including the environmental cost recovery on the basis of the polluter pays principle (PPP). Agriculture, as a potential driver of pressures on water bodies, can produce environmental costs....

An entrepreneurial ecosystem consists of the set of complementary factors required to start a business with the potential to scale up and innovate in a particular geographic space. This paper develops a framework using an occupational choice model with knowledge-based hierarchies to assess...

Discounting future costs and benefits is a crucial yet contentious practice in the appraisal of long-term public projects with environmental consequences. The standard approach typically neglects that ecosystem services are not easily substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit...

Der Agrarsektor ist von den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels direkt betroffen und trägt zur Freisetzung von Treibhausgasen (THG) bei. Der Landwirtschaft kommt somit eine entscheidende Bedeutung bei der Bewältigung der Klimakrise und in der Ernährungssicherheit zu. Eine steigende Nachfrage nach...

Soils provide multiple benefits for human well-being, which are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment into the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. To tackle complexity and unfamiliarity of soils, we express...

Purpose - The rapid adoption of the ecosystem concept in innovation contexts has led to a proliferation of differing uses. Scholars need to be crystal clear which concept of the ecosystem they are using to facilitate communication between scholars and allow for cumulativeness and creativity....

Purpose - Innovation ecosystems can emerge and grow organically, but the process can also be managed through conscious intervention. Therefore, this study observes different motivations and expectations for each group of actors. The lack of alignment between actors could have a negative...

Landscape composition has a crucial role in determining ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Human activities (e.g. urban expansion or agricultural intensification) have strongly modified the natural environment and ecosystem integrity. This paper presents an exemplary application of the...

Soil provides multiple benefits for human well-being that are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment on the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. In an attempt to reduce complexity for respondents, we express...

Humans have remained highly dependent on the availability of ecosystem services (ES). Over the past 300 years (more intensely in the past seven decades), human activities have degraded the ecosystems and lowered the availability of ES. This has resulted in foregone benefits of well- functioning...

Drawing on a pooled cross-sectional dataset of 5,225 households in the Province of Sichuan, this paper analyzes the income and distributional effects among poor households in rural China participating in a forest carbon sink (FCS) program. To be able to make causal inferences, we employ an...

It has long been recognized in Europe and elsewhere that standards-development organizations (SDOs) may adopt policies that require their participants to license patents essential to the SDO’s standards (standards-essential patents or SEPs) to manufacturers of standardized products...

We study to what extent people feel concerned by the conservation of the ecosystem services related to fish ponds. We analyze the types of services prioritized according to the profiles of the individuals and the factors determining this sensitivity. The analysis is based on an online survey...

Recognizing diversity in preferences and ascribed values for ecosystem services in policy making can help to realize more sustainable policies. The goal of this paper was to assess how rankings of ecosystem services (i.e. their relative importance in people’s lives) relate to people’s...

This study examines the role of business organisations in co-governing biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES). The empirical analysis includes twelve Nordic forest corporations considered market leaders in Finland, Sweden and Norway. Using content analysis of corporate sustainability reports...

The relevance of an ecosystem approach, which involves addressing ecosystems as an object of research, economically evaluating ecosystem services, and including the existing variety of evaluation methods and their classifications for the estimation of nature’s value, was the focus of this...

The intensification, extensification and abandonment of agricultural land will each play a major role in the future development of European landscapes. However, their impacts on various dimensions of sustainability vary spatially. This creates challenges but also opportunities for landscape...