Digital mapping of GlobalSoilMap soil properties at a broad scale: A review

S Chen, D Arrouays, VL Mulder, L Poggio, B Minasny… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Soils are essential for supporting food production and providing ecosystem services but are
under pressure due to population growth, higher food demand, and land use competition …

Impact of land use change on ecosystem services: A review

SS Hasan, L Zhen, MG Miah, T Ahamed… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in land use and ecosystem services influence each other and such
changes have consequences for human wellbeing. In this paper, we review the research …

[HTML][HTML] Nexus between nature-based solutions, ecosystem services and urban challenges

JB Almenar, T Elliot, B Rugani, B Philippe, TN Gutierrez… - Land use policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) are increasingly promoted to support sustainable and
resilient urban planning. However, design and planning urban NBS targeted at the needs of …

Valuing natural capital and ecosystem services toward the goals of efficiency, fairness, and sustainability

R Costanza - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services (ES) are the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that
directly or indirectly contribute to sustainable human wellbeing. The ecosystems that provide …

Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go?

R Costanza, R De Groot, L Braat, I Kubiszewski… - Ecosystem …, 2017 - Elsevier
It has been 20 years since two seminal publications about ecosystem services came out: an
edited book by Gretchen Daily and an article in Nature by a group of ecologists and …

The superior effect of nature based solutions in land management for enhancing ecosystem services

S Keesstra, J Nunes, A Novara, D Finger… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The rehabilitation and restoration of land is a key strategy to recover services-goods and
resources-ecosystems offer to the humankind. This paper reviews key examples to …

Dynamic changes in the value of China's ecosystem services

G Xie, C Zhang, L Zhen, L Zhang - Ecosystem services, 2017 - Elsevier
This study initiated a dynamic assessment method of ecosystem service values (ESV),
based on an analogy with the labor theory of value, by modifying and developing the …

Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead

AF Cord, B Bartkowski, M Beckmann, A Dittrich… - Ecosystem …, 2017 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that humans obtain from nature, are of great
importance for human well-being. The challenge of meeting the growing human demands …

Soil “ecosystem” services and natural capital: critical appraisal of research on uncertain ground

PC Baveye, J Baveye, J Gowdy - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Over the last few years, considerable attention has been devoted in the scientific literature
and in the media to the concept of “ecosystem” services of soils. The monetary valuation of …

Loess Plateau: from degradation to restoration

Y Yu, W Zhao, JF Martinez-Murillo, P Pereira - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
United Nations established 2021–2030 as the decade for ecosystem restoration and
“prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide”. Ecosystem and land …