Local and indigenous knowledge is being transformed globally, particularly being eroded
when pertaining to ecology. In many parts of the world, rural and indigenous communities …

The local wisdom of indigenous people in nature conservation plays a critical part in
protecting the planet's biodiversity and the overall health of the ecosystems. However, at the …

Although a number of comprehensive reviews have examined global ecosystem services
(ES), few have focused on studies that assess urban ecosystem services (UES). Given that …

While technological progress has fostered the conception of an urban society that is
increasingly decoupled from ecosystems, demands on natural capital and ecosystem …

This paper reviews available cross-disciplinary evidence on how culture affects food
security. We discuss the impact of culture on all four dimensions (availability, access and …

Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental
management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few …

We explore the potential of urban ecosystem services for improving resilience and quality of
life in cities. First, we classify and categorize important ecosystem services and disservices …

Over millennia human well-being has benefited from ecosystems, not only through tangible
goods, but also through intangible assets known as cultural ecosystem services. Despite …

A key challenge of landscape planning and management is co** with multiple ecosystem
service (ES) potentials and needs in complex social-ecological systems such as urban …

One of the key challenges for ecosystem services research is to develop a comprehensive
methodological approach in which biophysical, socio-cultural and monetary value-domains …