scholarly journals Introductory Chapter: Evaluation Methods of Ecosystem Services and Their Scientific and Societal Importance in Service of Solving the Global Problems of the Humankind

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levente Hufnagel ◽  
Ferenc Mics ◽  
Réka Homoródi
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Global Problems

The Analysis of the Evaluation of the Marine Nature Reserve-Ecosystem Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 726-731 ◽  
pp. 1194-1198
Author(s):  
Na Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Ecological Compensation ◽  
Cultural Services ◽  
Regulating Services ◽  
Marine Ecosystem Services

The evaluation of the Marine Nature Reserve-ecosystem services is the key to set the criterion of the Marine Nature Reserve ecological compensation. Therefore, this paper identified and classified the Marine Nature Reserve-ecosystem services first. It pointed out that the Marine ecosystem services referred to the products and services that gained from the Marine Nature Reserve ecosystem, and were necessary for human to survive and develop, including the supplying services, regulating services, cultural services and supporting services. After that, this paper discussed the problems to evaluate ecosystem. Finally, it studied the evaluation methods and models of the Marine Nature Reserve-ecosystem services.

scholarly journals Applying the Evaluation of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Landscape Architecture Design: Challenges and Opportunities

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 665
Author(s):  
Xin Cheng ◽  
Sylvie Van Damme ◽  
Pieter Uyttenhove
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Practical Challenge

Landscape architects play a significant role in safeguarding urban landscapes and human well-being by means of design and they call for practical knowledge, skills, and methods to address increasing environmental pressure. Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are recognized as highly related to landscape architecture (LA) studies, and the outcomes of CES evaluations have the potential to support LA practice. However, few efforts have focused on systematically investigating CES in LA studies. Additionally, how CES evaluations are performed in LA studies is rarely researched. This study aims to identify the challenges and provide recommendations for applying CES evaluations to LA practice, focusing specifically on LA design. To conclude, three challenges are identified, namely a lack of consistent concepts (conceptual challenge); a lack of CES evaluation methods to inform designs (methodological challenge); and practical issues of transferring CES evaluations to LA design (practical challenge). Based on our findings, we highlight using CES as a common term to refer to socio-cultural values and encourage more CES evaluation methods to be developed and tested for LA design. In addition, we encourage more studies to explore the links of CES and landscape features and address other practical issues to better transfer CES evaluations onto LA designs.

EVALUATING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF IMPOUNDED RIVERS: AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES APPROACH

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450035
Author(s):  
EDWARD HEARNSHAW ◽  
JEAN-MARIE TOMPKINS ◽  
ROSS CULLEN
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
River Ecology ◽  
Minimum Standard ◽  
Strong Sustainability ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Impounded Rivers ◽  
Benefits And Costs ◽  
Standard Concept

There has been increasing demand in Canterbury, New Zealand for the abstraction of water from rivers. This demand has led to the increased interest in dam projects. But, while river impoundment can result in significant benefits, it also can come at "cost", especially to river ecology. Given these benefits and costs, it is essential that impounded rivers are systematically evaluated for their sustainability. In this paper the ecosystem services approach is applied for the purposes of evaluating the sustainability of the Opihi River located in South Canterbury. Indicators are used to represent the set of ecosystem services provided by the river. Both the criteria of weak and strong sustainability are evaluated in a novel way. Weak and strong sustainability are operationalised through an ecosystem services index and the safe minimum standard concept, respectively. In applying these evaluation methods it is observed that since the construction of the Opuha Dam, the Opihi River has progressed towards weak and strong sustainability.

scholarly journals Assessing and valuing ecosystem services of Lake Kasumigaura using multiple evaluation methods: introduction to feature.

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-215
Author(s):  
Shin-ichiro S. MATSUZAKI ◽  
Tatsumi KITAMURA ◽  
Koji NISHI ◽  
Shun-ichi MATSUMOTO ◽  
Takahiro KUBO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Lake Kasumigaura

Mechanisms of Global Governance: Economic Analysis

2013 ◽  
pp. 4-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Grigoryev ◽  
A. Kurdin
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Global Problems

The coordination of economic activity at the global level is carried out through different mechanisms, which regulate activities of companies, states, international organizations. In spite of wide diversity of entrenched mechanisms of governance in different areas, they can be classified on the basis of key characteristics, including distribution of property rights, mechanisms of governance (in the narrow sense according to O. Williamson), mechanisms of expansion. This approach can contribute not only to classifying existing institutions but also to designing new ones. The modern aggravation of global problems may require rethinking mechanisms of global governance. The authors offer the universal framework for considering this problem and its possible solutions.

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