Disaggregating Ecosystem Benefits: An Integrated Environmental-Deprivation Index

An Integrated Ecosystem Theory

The paper presents an ecosystem theory based on ten propositions. The ecosystem theory is an integration of several contributions from a number of system ecologists. It is of importance to apply this theory to explain ecological observations and use it environmental management because the alternative is to rely entirely on observations which is very time consuming, costly and cumbersome. The pr...

Disaggregating the evidence linking biodiversity and ecosystem services

Ecosystem services (ES) are an increasingly popular policy framework for connecting biodiversity with human well-being. These efforts typically assume that biodiversity and ES covary, but the relationship between them remains remarkably unclear. Here we analyse >500 recent papers and show that reported relationships differ among ES, methods of measuring biodiversity and ES, and three different ...

An Inter-temporal Relative Deprivation Index

An Empirical Environmental Sustainability Index Derived Solely from Nighttime Satellite Imagery and Ecosystem Service Valuation

This paper describes a crude yet simple Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) derived solely from the ratio of two classified satellite images with global coverage. An ESI is calculated for each nation of the world by dividing the amount of light energy emitted by that nation as measured by a nighttime satellite image into the total value of that nation’s ecosystem services as measured by a ...

Microtopography recreation benefits ecosystem restoration.

Wei Wei,*,† Liding Chen,† Lei Yang,† F. Fred Samadani,‡ and Ge Sun †State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China ‡Environmental and Water Resources Management Consultant, Rockville, Maryland 20850, United States Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606, ...