Urban ecosystem services provide a wide range of to sustain life, social relation, health, etc., and address most the challenges, including climate change environmental pollution. While it is recognized that urban substantially contributes human well-being in cities, there less attention consider value service planning policymaking. This study analyzed land use cover (LULC) dynamics city Dhaka ...

corruption defined as abuse of power by governmental officials for personal goals.in recent years, many articles about determinants of corruption have been written that introduced so many variables as determinants of corruption. these factors can be divided into two categories: economic and non-economic factors.in these article we examine the effect of economic activities combination on corrupt...

In the future, the Cloud will evolve into a rich ecosystem of service providers and consumers, each building upon the offerings of others. Cloud service brokers will play an important role, mediating between providers and consumers. As well as providing vertical integration and value-added aggregation of services, brokers will play an increased role in continuous quality assurance and optimizat...

The assessment of ecosystem service functions is one of the focused area in modern ecological and environmental research. As a typical shallow macrophytic lake in China, Nansi Lake is selected as the study area. Based the indicator system and assessment models established in this research, the ecosystem service functions of Nansi Lake are assessed. The results show that the ecosystem service fu...

Rapid construction and development activities in large urban areas have significantly impacted land use cover (LULC). They brought great pressure to sustainable development. Current studies shown that changes LULC structure affect regional ecosystem service functions but lack the sufficient scientific basis provide reasonable strategies for future of areas. Based on related data Wuhan metropoli...

Recently designated as a new special economic zone in China, Zhoushan Archipelago is going through a rapid land use change that is expected to have significant impacts on ecosystem services. However, there is no baseline of ecosystem service value (ESV) of the Zhoushan Archipelago up to date, making it impossible to assess any impacts of land use changes. In this study, we adopted the concept o...

Understanding cultural preferences toward different ecosystem services is of great importance for conservation and development planning. While cultural preferences toward plant species have been long studied in the field of plant utilisation, the effects of ethnicity on ecosystem services identification and valuation has received little attention. We assessed the effects of ethnicity toward dif...

There is an enormous stress on livelihood analysis of rural communities and their economies. Village common property resources (CPRs) have played a substantial economic role for the sustenance in rural areas of the drylands. The CPRs of drylands of western Rajasthan shows a varied range of habitats due to strong functional disparities in topographic, geomorphological, climatic, edaphic and phys...