Towards Intangible Freshwater Cultural Ecosystem Services: Informing Sustainable Water Resources Management

Reorienting land degradation towards sustainable land management: linking sustainable livelihoods with ecosystem services in rangeland systems.

This paper identifies new ways of moving from land degradation towards sustainable land management through the development of economic mechanisms. It identifies new mechanisms to tackle land degradation based on retaining critical levels of natural capital whilst basing livelihoods on a wider range of ecosystem services. This is achieved through a case study analysis of the Kalahari rangelands ...

Promoting Ecosystem-Based Management and the Sustainable Use and Governance of Deep-Water Resources

Water Governance, Stakeholder Engagement, and Sustainable Water Resources Management

Water governance and stakeholder engagement are receiving research attention for their role in formulating and implementing solutions to the world’s critical water challenges. The inspiration for this Special Issue came from our desire to provide a platform for sharing results and informing the global water governance community about the wealth of excellent interdisciplinary and transdisciplina...

Simulation Modelling in Quantifying Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Environmental Management

The problem, however, is that many of the ecological and social amenities are not currently incorporated into the decision-making process. From the perspective of economic theory, they reveal themselves as positive externalities and as such have no direct market price. Another fundamental issue is getting at the quantitative characteristics of the ecosystem services. Traditionally, publications...

Sustainable Ecosystem Management

Sustainable Ecosystem Management (SEM) is one of the ‘four challenges’ for ecosystem services (ES) to be addressed by OpenNESS; the others relate to human well-being, competitiveness and governance. The challenge is to manage ecosystems in such a way that they can sustainably deliver an optimal combination of ecosystem services both today and into the future, with resilience to environmental an...