Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people

C Kremen, AM Merenlender - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Biodiversity is under siege, with greatly enhanced rates of local and global
extinction and the decline of once-abundant species. Current rates of human-induced …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem services and nature's contribution to people: negotiating diverse values and trade-offs in land systems

EC Ellis, U Pascual, O Mertz - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Biodiversity and ecosystem services are perceived differently by different
stakeholders.•Land management decisions require negotiating trade-offs among values and …

Integrating ecosystem services and landscape ecological risk into adaptive management: Insights from a western mountain-basin area, China

J Gong, E Cao, Y **e, C Xu, H Li, L Yan - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs

BBN Strassburg, HL Beyer, R Crouzeilles… - Nature Ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
International commitments for ecosystem restoration add up to one-quarter of the world's
arable land. Fulfilling them would ease global challenges such as climate change and …

[HTML][HTML] Why Brazil needs its legal reserves

JP Metzger, MMC Bustamante, J Ferreira… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Brazil's environmental legislation obliges private properties to retain a fixed proportion of
their total area with native vegetation, the so-called “Legal Reserves”. Those areas …

[HTML][HTML] Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss

H Kujala, M Maron, CM Kennedy, MC Evans, JW Bull… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
In the face of the ongoing biodiversity crisis, questions are arising regarding the success, or
lack thereof, of biodiversity offset schemes, where biodiversity losses from human …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating top-down and bottom-up approaches improves practicality and efficiency of large-scale ecological restoration planning: Insights from a social …

Z Ding, H Zheng, J Wang, P O'Connor, C Li, X Chen… - Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecological restoration policies and their implementation are influenced by ecological and
socioeconomic drivers. Top-down approach-based spatial planning, emphasizing …

Ecosystem service synergies/trade-offs informing the supply-demand match of ecosystem services: Framework and application

L Wang, H Zheng, Z Wen, L Liu, BE Robinson, R Li… - Ecosystem Services, 2019 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services (ES) underpin human well-being, but their complex synergies or trade-
offs are a challenge for matching ES supply and demand. This study presents a framework …

The maturation of ecosystem services: Social and policy research expands, but whither biophysically informed valuation?

KMA Chan, T Satterfield - People and Nature, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

Coordinating ecosystem service trade-offs to achieve win–win outcomes: A review of the approaches

H Zheng, L Wang, T Wu - Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Ecosystem service (ES) trade-offs have been broadly recognized and studied over the past
decade. However, how to coordinate the relationships among ES trade-offs to achieve win …