Protecting global soil resources for ecosystem services

Identifying spatial priorities for protecting ecosystem services

Priorities for protecting ecosystem services must be identified to ensure future human well-being. Approaches to broad-scale spatial prioritization of ecosystem services are becoming increasingly popular and are a vital precursor to identifying locations where further detailed analyses of the management of ecosystem services is required (e.g., examining trade-offs among management actions). Pri...

From Protecting a System to Protecting a Global Ecosystem

The area of security used to be classified by technologies: authentication, access control, monitoring, firewalls, cryptography, etc., or by systems: web security, application security, database security, operating systems security, communication security, etc. However, nowadays, in order to operate a service over the Internet, facing customers, one needs to manage a complex infrastructure. Thi...

Protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity in the world’s watersheds

Despite unprecedented worldwide biodiversity loss, conservation is not at the forefront of national or international development programs. The concept of ecosystem services was intended to help conservationists demonstrate the benefits of ecosystems for human well-being, but services are not yet seen to truly address human need with current approaches focusing mostly on financial gain. To promo...

Payments for ecosystem services: From local to global

Distributed Mechanism for Protecting Resources in a Newly Emerged Digital Ecosystem Technology

Digital Ecosystem (DE) is characterized as an open and dynamic environment where the interaction and collaboration between its entities are highly promoted. A major requirement to promote such intensive interaction and collaboration in a DE environment is the ability to secure and uphold the confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation of shared resources and information. However, current dev...