Abstract Information and numbers on the use and appreciation of nature are valuable
information for protected area (PA) managers. A promising direction is the utilisation of …

We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with
'thingifying'processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and …

An exemplar of nature-based solutions (NBS) is natural flood management (NFM), for which
interest is growing worldwide. As with many NBS, implementing NFM requires the …

The Vittel case serves as a salient reference point in academic and policy discussions
related to user-financed payments for ecosystem services (PES), but critical views are …

Increasing pressures on ecosystems in the Latin American region, as well as the adoption of
multilateral conservation commitments, have led to the implementation of instruments that …

There is increasing emphasis on innovation as a driver of continued prosperity in the rural
economy. Globalisation poses challenges to rural areas given technological advances and …

Climate change poses challenges to achieving sustainable ocean development, with
particularly acute risk posed to coastal states and marginalized coastal users. International …

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) gained an increasing importance in science and
politics within the last decades. Although the enthusiasm about PES is particularly high in …

Nature degradation, poverty and social discrimination are some of the consequences of
unfair decision‐making over environmental resources within rural communities in the Global …

Abstract The Ecosystem Services (ES) concept has attracted substantial interest among
researchers and policymakers alike, and there are hopes that it can facilitate much needed …