Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

BJ Cardinale, JE Duffy, A Gonzalez, DU Hooper… - Nature, 2012‏ - nature.com
The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature
of life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi …

Payments for ecosystem services: rife with problems and potential—for transformation towards sustainability

KMA Chan, E Anderson, M Chapman, K Jespersen… - Ecological …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs are one prominent strategy to address
economic externalities of resource extraction and commodity production, improving both …

Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making

Z Ouyang, C Song, H Zheng, S Polasky, Y **ao… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
Gross domestic product (GDP) summarizes a vast amount of economic information in a
single monetary metric that is widely used by decision makers around the world. However …

Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

AD Guerry, S Polasky, J Lubchenco… - Proceedings of the …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
The central challenge of the 21st century is to develop economic, social, and governance
systems capable of ending poverty and achieving sustainable levels of population and …

[HTML][HTML] Implications of land use/land cover dynamics and Prosopis invasion on ecosystem service values in Afar Region, Ethiopia

H Shiferaw, W Bewket, T Alamirew, G Zeleke… - Science of the total …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics and the resulting changes in ecosystems, as well as
the services they provide, are a consequence of human activities and environmental drivers …

[HTML][HTML] Notes from the field: Lessons learned from using ecosystem service approaches to inform real-world decisions

M Ruckelshaus, E McKenzie, H Tallis, A Guerry… - Ecological …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
While there have been rapid advances in assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem
services (BES), a critical remaining challenge is how to move from scientific knowledge to …

Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land-use decisions

JH Goldstein, G Caldarone, TK Duarte… - Proceedings of the …, 2012‏ - pnas.org
Recent high-profile efforts have called for integrating ecosystem-service values into
important societal decisions, but there are few demonstrations of this approach in practice …

[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty assessment in ecosystem services analyses: Seven challenges and practical responses

P Hamel, BP Bryant - Ecosystem services, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Ecosystem services (ES) analyses are increasingly used to address societal challenges, but
too often are not accompanied by uncertainty assessment. This omission limits the validity of …

Securing natural capital and expanding equity to rescale civilization

PR Ehrlich, PM Kareiva, GC Daily - Nature, 2012‏ - nature.com
In biophysical terms, humanity has never been moving faster nor further from sustainability
than it is now. Our increasing population size and per capita impacts are severely testing the …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem service research in protected areas: A systematic review of the literature on current practices and future prospects

X Pu, W Ding, W Ye, X Nan, R Lu - Ecological Indicators, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Protected areas (PAs) are globally important environmental management tools against the
effects of human activities, as they support the conservation of marine biodiversity, habitats …