Valuing natural capital and ecosystem services toward the goals of efficiency, fairness, and sustainability

R Costanza - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services (ES) are the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that
directly or indirectly contribute to sustainable human wellbeing. The ecosystems that provide …

Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go?

R Costanza, R De Groot, L Braat, I Kubiszewski… - Ecosystem …, 2017 - Elsevier
It has been 20 years since two seminal publications about ecosystem services came out: an
edited book by Gretchen Daily and an article in Nature by a group of ecologists and …

Virtual worlds for learning in metaverse: A narrative review

R Damaševičius, T Sidekerskienė - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
As digital technologies continue to evolve, they offer unprecedented opportunities to
transform traditional educational paradigms. Virtual worlds offer a dynamic and immersive …

Evaluating agricultural trade-offs in the age of sustainable development

DR Kanter, M Musumba, SLR Wood, C Palm, J Antle… - Agricultural …, 2018 - Elsevier
A vibrant, resilient and productive agricultural sector is fundamental to achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals. Bringing about such a transformation requires optimizing a …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging technologies for assessing ecosystem services: A synthesis of opportunities and challenges

U Schirpke, A Ghermandi, M Sinclair, D Van Berkel… - Ecosystem Services, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid technological development opens up new opportunities for assessing ecosystem
services (ES), which may help to overcome current knowledge gaps and limitations in data …

Targeting social learning and engagement: what serious games and gamification can offer to participatory modeling

E Bakhanova, JA Garcia, WL Raffe, A Voinov - Environmental Modelling & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Serious games and gamification are useful tools for learning and sustaining long-term
engagement in the activities that are not meant to be entertaining. However, the application …

Land use and land cover change in the Yellow River Basin from 1980 to 2015 and its impact on the ecosystem services

B Liu, L Pan, Y Qi, X Guan, J Li - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Land use and land cover change is an important driving force for changes in ecosystem
services. We defined several important human-induced land cover change processes such …

[HTML][HTML] Valuation of ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development of Hani terraces: a rice–fish–duck integrated farming model

Y Yuan, G Xu, N Shen, Z Nie, H Li, L Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
As a complementary and symbiotic agro-ecological cycle system, a nature-based integrated
rice–fish–duck farming ecosystem was developed in the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces. The …

Spatiotemporal variation characteristics of green space ecosystem service value at urban fringes: A case study on Gan**gzi District in Dalian, China

J Yang, Y Guan, JC **a, C **, X Li - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, a green space classification system for urban fringes was established based on
multisource land use data from Gan**gzi District, China (2000–2015). The purpose of this …

Simulation games as a catalyst for social learning: The case of the water-food-energy nexus game

J Mochizuki, P Magnuszewski, M Pajak… - Global Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Role-playing simulations have gained in popularity in recent years as a novel method of
engaging researchers and stakeholders in a variety of social and environmental issues …