The oceans are increasingly viewed as a new frontier for economic development. Yet, as
companies and governments race to capitalize on marine resources, substantial risks can …

Environmental justice refers broadly to the distribution of environmental benefits and
burdens, and the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in environmental …

Globally, urbanization dramatically undermines ecosystem services (ESs). How to relieve
the disturbance of urbanization level (UL) on ESs has become an urgent issue for achieving …

Cultural ecosystem services constitute a field of research characterised by a growing
number of publications from various academic disciplines. We carried out a systematic …

Lake ecosystems are essential for human wellbeing and development for their capacity to
provide multiple ecosystem services (ES). However, because of an anthropogenic-driven …

Coastal zones are usually composed of coastlines and coastal wetlands and are among the
most productive and dynamic ecosystems. However, the deltas are seldom detected and …

Territories and areas that Indigenous peoples and local communities govern, manage, and
conserve (hereafter territories of life) are increasingly recognized by scientists, international …

As the spectre of climate change looms large, there is an increasing imperative to develop
comprehensive risk assessment tools. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the evolution …

Coastal resources are important for the wellbeing and livelihoods of people in coastal
communities across the world but are used and valued differently by different people at …

Elaborating the benefits humans receive from coastal wetlands using a Cultural Ecosystem
Services assessment is an emergent and important field linking human wellbeing to …