With a growing world population, increasingly demanding consumers, and a limited amount
of agricultural land, there is an urgent need to find alternatives to conventional meat …

Women and men often have differential access to and derive different benefits from
ecosystem services; therefore, their perception and knowledge of ecosystem services also …

Abstract Islands make up 5.3% of Earth's land area yet maintain an estimated 19% of bird
species, 17% of rodents, 17% of flowering plants, and 27% of human languages. Species …

Forests in Kenya are threatened by unsustainable uses and conversion to alternative land
uses. In spite of the consequences of forest degradation and biodiversity loss and reliance of …

There is a growing demand for incorporating social preferences in ecosystem service
assessments. To establish sustainable rural landscape management with alternative …

The restoration of the livelihood of forest-based communities is an important element of
forest conservation. In this study, we developed a framework of restorative justice to critically …

Livelihood in Iran's rural areas, as elsewhere in the developing world, is highly intertwined
with the harvesting of environmental resources, leading to severe environmental …

Improving ecological well-being performance (EWP) is important for the construction of
ecological civilization and sustainable development. The forest ecosystem provides …

This study examines the relative benefits (provisioning) and importance (regulating and
cultural) of forest ecosystem services to households in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) …

Introduction Human dependence on forests is a multifaceted phenomenon. The degree of
reliance on forests varies geographically, overtime and across communities. These …