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Linking landscape structures and ecosystem service value using multivariate regression analysis: a case study of the Chaohu Lake Basin, China
Human activities have fragmented habitats around the world. In this case, understanding the links between landscape structures and ecosystem service...
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Assessing the variable ecosystem services relationships in polders over time: a case study in the eastern Chaohu Lake Basin, China
Land use changes can isolate habitat patches, thereby aggravating the fragmentation of these units and altering natural ecological processes. Thus,...
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Future changes in rice yields over the Mekong River Delta due to climate change—Alarming or alerting?
The crop simulation model Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) was applied over the Mekong River Delta (MRD), Southern...
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Landscape Structure and Ecosystem Services of Etropole Municipality
This chapter represents an approach to investigate the landscape structure at municipality level and the possibilities of using it for evaluation of...
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Climate change impact in the Western Himalaya: people’s perception and adaptive strategies
The Himalaya represents a vast mountain system and globally valued for its significant role in regulation of global as well as regional climate that...
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A watershed-based adaptive knowledge system for develo** ecosystem stakeholder partnerships
This study proposes a Watershed-based Adaptive Knowledge System (WAKES) to consistently coordinate multiple stakeholders in develo** sustainable...
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Ecosystem Services for Oceans and Coasts
This chapter introduces the ecosystem services (ES) approach as it pertains to marine and coastal environments. It starts with a description of the...
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Ecosystem-Based Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Costs and Benefits of Participatory Ecosystem Services Scenarios for Šumava National Park, Czech Republic
The aim of the study was to analyse economic costs and benefits of stakeholder-defined adaptation scenarios for the Šumava National Park, the Czech...
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Overview of Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Drought Risk Reduction Targeting Small-Scale Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rain-fed agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) provides major but highly climate-dependent sources of livelihoods. Recurrent dry spells and...
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Vulnerability of California specialty crops to projected mid-century temperature changes
Increasing global temperatures are likely to have major impacts on agriculture, but the effects will vary by crop and location. This paper describes...
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Ecological Services of Intertidal Benthic Fauna and the Sustenance of Coastal Wetlands Along the Midnapore (East) Coast, West Bengal, India
Human existence is entirely dependent on the products and services of biodiversity for food, medicines, shelter, clothing materials, aesthetics etc....
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Missing the forest for the trees? Navigating the trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation under REDD
Forested landscapes play a critical role in mitigating climate change by sequestering carbon while at the same time fostering adaption by supporting...
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Analyzing the spatial patterns and drivers of ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing Taihu Lake Basin of China
Quantifying and map** the distribution patterns of ecosystem services can help to ascertain which services should be protected and where...
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Sustainable Development, Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management
Climate change necessitates changes to the methods and procedures of disaster management. A triggering event results in disaster due to the severity...
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Charting trends in the evolution of the La Alhambra forest (Granada, Spain) through analysis of pollen-emission dynamics over time
Changing climate conditions are having an appreciable impact both on the adaptive response of the species growing in urban and peri-urban forests...
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Assessment and management of ecological risk in an agricultural–pastoral ecotone: case study of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Ecological disasters have been occurring more frequently in recent years. As a result, ecological risk management has become an area of research...
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Adaptation policies to increase terrestrial ecosystem resilience: potential utility of a multicriteria approach
Climate change is rapidly undermining terrestrial ecosystem resilience and capacity to continue providing their services to the benefit of humanity...
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Adapting to climate change: assessing the vulnerability of ecosystem services in Europe in the context of rural development
Over the past decade, efforts to move towards a low carbon economy have been increasingly coupled with the acknowledgement that we also need to...
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Sato-umi, the Wealth of the Commons: Moderator’s Summary
The round table was held as the last and concluding event of the symposium second session in Marseille. The whole session was covered by Japan’s...