There is an increasing interest in introducing ecosystem services (ESs) and landscape
ecological risk (LER) into environmental policies and governance. Yet, we know little about …

Urban ecosystem services provide a wide range of services to sustain life, social relation,
health, etc., and address most of the challenges, including climate change and …

Taiyuan City in the eastern Loess Plateau has experienced severe ecological problems
caused by urban expansion. For cities undergoing rapid urbanization, building an ecological …

With rapid urbanization and industrialization, China's metropolises have undergone a huge
shift in land use, which has had a profound impact on the ecological environment …

Since the blossoming of environmental awareness in the 1970s and the emergence of
sustainable development, the interest of development of urban vegetation and green spaces …

The total area covered by urban parkland in the United States has never been counted, but it
certainly exceeds one million acres. The fifty largest cities (not including their suburbs) alone …

There is a close-knit link between people and cultural ecosystem services (CESs). Many
methods have been verified as being able to value CESs. However, different methods have …

Divergent values are often at the heart of natural resource conflict. Using discord over the
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, USA as a case study, I …

The organization of multifunctional agriculture for the provision of social/health/educational
services is spreading throughout Europe and elsewhere. This concept is not new, and the …

Ecosystems provide many services that are essential for human activities and for our well-
being. Many regulation services are interconnected and are fundamental in mitigating and …