Information about the effect of land management on ecosystem services is essential to make
balanced decisions, develop sustainable political strategies, and determine future …

The rising pressure over the environment, associated with the increase in the demand for
natural resources, resulted in an increased attention to social and environmental issues …

Despite the growing body of literature on ecosystem services, still many challenges remain
to structurally integrate ecosystem services in landscape planning, management and …

Despite the attention that research on ecosystem services has attracted in recent years, its
use to support real-life decision-making processes is still very limited, especially at the …

Ecosystem services are spatially heterogeneous and temporal variability, which results in
trade-offs, synergies and neutrality. The trade-off is a key problem in ecosystem …

The ecosystem services concept provides a valuable framework for analyzing and acting on
the linkages between people and their environment. By making the values of nature explicit …

Land use conversions rank among the most significant drivers of change in ecosystem
services worldwide, affecting human wellbeing and threatening the survival of other species …

Urbanization is one of the key factors that drive changes in ecosystem services. Although
various studies have analyzed relationships between land-cover change and ecosystem …

The ecosystem services framework provides a holistic perspective for planning on local,
national, and global scales. Often, scenarios are utilized to quantify and contrast the …

Ecosystem services encompass the multiple benefits that people receive from nature
(Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) 2005). The environment is managed to obtain a …