Abstract Structuring problems for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) has attracted
increasing attention over the past 20 years from both a conceptual and a practical …

Composite indicators (CIs) are increasingly used to measure and track environmental
systems. However, they have faced criticism for not accounting for uncertainties and their …

Context Land-use change impacts biodiversity and ecosystem services, which are
intrinsically related. There is a serious lack of knowledge concerning on how land-use …

The Grain for Green Project (GGP) is the largest land retirement/afforestation program in
China; it was primarily initiated to reduce the soil erosion and improve the ecological …

It is increasingly acknowledged that land-use and land-cover change has become a key
subject that urgently needs to be addressed in the study of global environmental change. In …

Future land cover changes may result in adjustments to biophysical drivers impacting on net
ecosystem carbon exchange (NEE), catchment water use through evapotranspiration (ET) …

This study aims to develop a new procedure that combines multi-criteria spatial vulnerability
analysis with the traditional linear probabilistic risk approach. This approach is named …

The concept of 'resilience'breaks down silos by providing a 'conceptual umbrella'under
which different disciplines come together to tackle complex problems with more holistic …

Indicators have been used in many sustainability assessment methods, however,
disagreements over a common definition and scope for the sustainability concept have led …

As our societies and natural systems are becoming ever more interconnected, it is critical
that sustainable management can adapt to new knowledge from both the ecological and the …