SWAT, a watershed modeling tool has been proposed to help quantify ecosystem services.
The concept of ecosystem services incorporates the collective benefits natural systems …

In the last decades, there have been large areas of agricultural land that were abandoned in
Europe, producing significant social and environmental impacts. Land abandonment is a …

Ecosystem service concepts can offer a valuable approach for linking human and nature,
and arguments for the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems. Despite an …

We are increasingly confronted with severe social and economic impacts of environmental
degradation all over the world. From a valuation perspective, environmental problems and …

Land-use planning is an important determinant for green space policy in cities. It defines
land covers and hence the structure and function of urban ecosystems and the benefits …

The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …

Despite significant advances in the development of the ecosystem services concept across
the science and policy arenas, the valuation of ecosystem services to guide sustainable …

Sustainable urban storm-water management is a key policy of the European Union.
Increasing populations, densification and global climate change cause major challenges for …

With the aim to embed ecology more forcefully into decision-making, the concept of
Ecosystems Services (ES) has gained significant ground among policy-makers and …

As anthropogenic degradation of biodiversity and ecosystems increases, so does the
potential threat to the supply of ecosystem services, a key contribution of nature to people …