As the global attention being paid on ecological environment, the ecological accounting can provide environmental information by its unique methods. The introduction of the ecological accounting is not only the need of sustainable development of economy but also for enterprise's long-term competitiveness. From the background of ecological accounting, this paper describes the research content of...

This paper develops a methodology for including ecosystem services in a wealth accounting framework. Accounting for ecosystems and their services leads to adjusting net domestic product (NDP) for the direct benefits provided by the current stock of ecosystems but not for their indirect contributions in terms of protecting or supporting economic activity, property and human lives. When ecosystem...

AIM This research applied ecological thinking to develop a more integrated or ecological understanding of the needs and aspirations of communities of older people. METHODS A three-stage methodology was utilised. Stage one entailed the thematic analysis of resident satisfaction surveys collected from 1000 residents of aged living and care facilities to identify issues impacting upon their live...

Objectives: This research applied ecological thinking to develop a more integrated or ecological understanding of the needs and aspirations of communities of older people. Method: A three stage methodology was utilised. Stage one entailed the thematic analysis of resident satisfaction surveys collected from 1000 residents of aged living and care facilities to identify issues impacting upon thei...

The evolution of genomes can be studied at at least three different scales: the nucleotide level, accounting for substitutions and indels, the gene level, accounting for gains and losses, and the genome level, accounting for rearrangements of chromosome organization. While the nucleotide and gene levels are now often integrated in a single model using reconciled gene trees, very little work int...

Urban economy is confronted with increasing biophysical limitations derived from the exhaustion of natural resources and the depletion of environmental capacity, and human cultural diversity has been declining during the fast urbanization. The conventional anthropocentric economics, regarding the natural environment as the ‘exterior’ of human economy, is invalid in the scientific evaluation on ...