French regulations concerning the mitigation of development impacts have been
progressively strengthened with offsets now required for impacts on forests, wetlands, and …

Humans depend on biodiversity in myriad ways, yet species are being rapidly lost due to
human activities. The ecosystem services approach to conservation tries to establish the …

The global carbon sequestration and avoided emissions potentially achieved via blue
carbon is high (∼ 3% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions); however, it is limited by …

Eco-compensation is the most important form of compensatory conservation in China.
However, this compensatory mechanism is criticized for vague definition and massive …

Mangrove forests support unique biodiversity and provide a suite of ecosystem services (ES)
that benefit people. Decades of continual mangrove loss and degradation have necessitated …

Summary Wetlands provide∼ $47.4 trillion/year worth of ecosystem services globally and
support immense biodiversity, yet face widespread drainage and pollution, and large-scale …

Emerging development policies and lending standards call for consideration of ecosystem
services when mitigating impacts from development, yet little guidance exists to inform this …

We assess pathways for integrating the ecosystem services concept into American land use
and environmental planning. Ecosystem services are the beneficial products that functioning …

Agricultural nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emission accounts for a non-trivial fraction of global
greenhouse gas (GHG) budget. To date, estimating N 2 O fluxes from cropland remains a …

Different intellectual strands within political ecology have analyzed changing forms of
property institutions and the commons in particular. While engaging these topics from a …