High landscape diversity is assumed to increase the number and level of ecosystem services. However, the interactions between ecosystem service provision, disturbance and landscape composition are ...

New report by WWF is a contribution to the FSC's work on payment for ecosystem services. During its last General Assembly in October 2021, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) announced a new roadmap ...

ABSTRACT. A growing interest in mapping the social value of ecosystem services (ES) is not yet methodologically aligned with what is actually being mapped. We critically examine aspects of the social ...

ABSTRACT. In forestry research, the concept of ecosystem services (ESS) is less prominent than in agricultural studies. One reason might be that multifunctional forestry and the concept of forest ...

Environmental conservation efforts have traditionally focused on protecting individual species or natural resources. Scientists are discovering, however, that preserving the benefits that whole ...

The 1,500+ parks and public green spaces stewarded by the City of Toronto play a critical role in Torontonians’ quality of life by: preventing flooding by absorbing stormwater reducing extreme heat ...

Katherine Short, a member of the Coral Triangle Core Team has been pursuing a Part-Time Masters Degree through Imperial College’s Conservation Science School since late 2010. For her second topic she ...

What do chocolate, migratory birds, flood control and pandas have in common? Many countries benefit from ecosystem services provided outside their nations. This can happen through economic ...