نتایج جستجو برای: namely ecosystem well

تعداد نتایج: 1718472  

Journal: :Semantics and Linguistic Theory 2018

2012
Karen Levy Samuel S. Myers

To live in good health and, in many ways, to live at all, people need a wide array of life-support benefi ts that derive from ecosystems. Collectively these are called ecosystem services , a term referring to the conditions and processes through which ecosystems, and the species that make them up, sustain and fulfi ll human life (Ehrlich and Ehrlich 1981 ; Daily 1997 ; Millennium Ecosystem Asse...

2009
A. Nahman

Introduction All nations face the challenge of simultaneously meeting two imperatives: developing their economies to meet the needs of their people, and ensuring that the productivity and viability of the underlying ecosystems and ecosystem services are maintained at healthy levels over time. Essentially, these imperatives are enshrined in the concept of sustainable development, which is common...

2001
Paul J. Ferraro Warren Hall

Conservation biologists, policy makers, and citizens have identified the protection of native ecosystems in low-income nations as a global social objective. Among the more popular initiatives to achieve this objective is the use of development interventions in the peripheral areas of endangered ecosystems. Such interventions indirectly provide desirable ecosystem services through two mechanisms...

2014
Madeleine Bottrill Samantha Cheng Ruth Garside Supin Wongbusarakum Dilys Roe Margaret B Holland Janet Edmond

Background: International policy has sought to emphasize and strengthen the link between the conservation of natural ecosystems and human development. Furthermore, international conservation organizations have broadened their objectives beyond nature-based goals to recognize the contribution of conservation interventions in sustaining ecosystem services upon which human populations are dependen...

2016
Andrew Balmford Huafang Chen Ben Phalan Mingcheng Wang Christine O’Connell Cath Tayleur Jianchu Xu

The current unprecedented expansion of infrastructure promises to enhance human wellbeing but risks causing substantial harm to natural ecosystems and the benefits they provide for people. A framework for systematically and proactively identifying the likely benefits and costs of such developments is badly needed. Here, we develop and test at the subregional scale a recently proposed global sch...

2012
Martin Lindegren Pablo Vigliano P. Anders Nilsson

The introduction, establishment and spread of alien species is a major threat to biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services for human wellbeing. In order to reduce further loss of biodiversity and maintain productive and sustainable ecosystems, understanding the ecological mechanisms underlying species invasions and avoiding potentially harmful effects on native communities is urgentl...

2016
Katerina Vasileiadou Christina Pavloudi Ioanna Kalantzi Eugenia T. Apostolaki Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou Eva Chatzinikolaou Evangelos Pafilis Nafsika Papageorgiou Lucia Fanini Spyridon Konstas Nina Fragopoulou Christos Arvanitidis

BACKGROUND Coastal lagoons are ecosystems of major importance as they host a number of species tolerant to disturbances and they are highly productive. Therefore, these ecosystems should be protected to ensure stability and resilience. The lagoons of Amvrakikos Gulf form one of the most important lagoonal complexes in Greece. The optimal ecological status of these lagoons is crucial for the wel...

Journal: :Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2010
James Aronson James N Blignaut Rudolf S de Groot Andre Clewell Porter P Lowry Paddy Woodworth Richard M Cowling Daniel Renison Joshua Farley Christelle Fontaine David Tongway Samuel Levy Suzanne J Milton Orlando Rangel Bev Debrincat Chris Birkinshaw

The world's large and rapidly growing human population is exhausting Earth's natural capital at ever-faster rates, and yet appears mostly oblivious to the fact that these resources are limited. This is dangerous for our well-being and perhaps for our survival, as documented by numerous studies over many years. Why are we not moving instead toward sustainable levels of use? We argue here that th...

Journal: :Trends in ecology & evolution 2010
F Stuart Chapin Stephen R Carpenter Gary P Kofinas Carl Folke Nick Abel William C Clark Per Olsson D Mark Stafford Smith Brian Walker Oran R Young Fikret Berkes Reinette Biggs J Morgan Grove Rosamond L Naylor Evelyn Pinkerton Will Steffen Frederick J Swanson

Ecosystem stewardship is an action-oriented framework intended to foster the social-ecological sustainability of a rapidly changing planet. Recent developments identify three strategies that make optimal use of current understanding in an environment of inevitable uncertainty and abrupt change: reducing the magnitude of, and exposure and sensitivity to, known stresses; focusing on proactive pol...

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