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Decision-making processes to ensure sustainability of complex agro-ecosystems must simultaneously accommodate production goals, environmental soundness, and social relevancy. This means that besides environmental indicators and human activities,[...]Article
Coastal wetlands are among the most productive and valuable ecosystems worldwide, although one of the main factors affecting their survival is the coexistence between agriculture and conservation. This paper analyses the complex balance between [...]Article
F. Taghikhah ; J. Borevitz ; R. Costanza ; A. Voinov |Threats to sustainable food production are accelerating due to climate change, population growth, depletion of natural capital, and global market instability. This causes significant risks to farmers, consumers, and financial and policy institut[...]Article
Preservation and promotion of agroforestry systems entails the ideology for more ecosystem services, additional biodiversity benefits and climate change mitigation. Furthermore, farmland and forest landscapes and the consequent benefits to the e[...]Article
The Geographical Indications (GIs) scheme is the EUs primary policy tool for increasing the market values of geographically distinct food products. Although GIs are linked to the landscapes of food production, little is known about the social-e[...]Article
Many stated preference studies have shown that individuals attitudes play an important role in explaining their behaviour and helping to disentangle preference heterogeneity. When responses to attitudinal questions are introduced into discrete [...]Article
Agricultural intensification tends to maximize provisioning services at the expense of regulating, cultural and supporting ecosystem services (ES). Enhancing agroecosystem sustainability requires both individual and collective solutions, but the[...]Article
Urban Sprawl, and the fragmentation of the territory associated with it, are factors degrading the peri-urban areas in many European cities. The aim of this research is to investigate the role that Green Infrastructure (GI) and Nature-Based Solu[...]Article
The sustainability of farming systems has been enhanced by legislation on different scales, but at the same time these policies also promote more productive systems through farming intensification (e.g., use of irrigation or high tree densities)[...]Article
Global environmental changes, including landscape fragmentation, are threatening the integrity of ecosystems and reducing their capacity to deliver ecosystem services. Spatial configuration of a green network supports ecological functions and se[...]Article
A. Scuderi ; L. Sturiale ; G. Timpanaro ; A. Matarazzo ; S. Zingale ; P. Guarnaccia |For several decades, studies and conventions have highlighted the importance of the ecosystem services provided by natural resources and biodiversity for humanity and the need to move their management towards a sustainable model. Inthe United Na[...]Article
Wetlands constitute important habitats that provide several ecosystem services (ES). Wetlands have been termed the kidneys of the world for their water purification services and contain 2025% of total soil organic carbon. This paper is a review[...]Article
I. Mahjoubi ; L. Bossenbroek ; E. Berger ; O. Frör |Freshwater ecosystems deliver an extensive range of ecosystem services (ESs), which are the benefits people obtain from their interaction with nature. Increasing pressure on water resources threatens the sustainable supply of water-related ecosy[...]Article
Increasing the levels of ecosystem services that contribute to agricultural production (ES) is a challenge for the sustainability of agricultural systems. Agricultural advisors lack low-data operational approaches for assessing ES and knowledge [...]Article
The ecosystem service (ES) concept has increasingly been applied in environmental planning, while there are several decades of experience in applying multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in complex planning situations. The aim of this article[...]Article
Ecosystem service cascade (ESC) links each component of ecosystem services with social value, building an interdisciplinary research bridge between natural science and social science, which can help decision-makers better integrate the concept o[...]Article
Sustainable management is a prerequisite for a lake to provide a range of ecosystem services. The prioritization of needs is a difficult task, especially when the needs are in conflict and threaten water security. Lake Karla, situated in the The[...]Article
Water scarcity is the most significant challenge facing semi-arid and arid areas because fresh water is often transferred from other areas to these regions, and then discharged as wastewater. Irrigating agricultural lands and green spaces with t[...]Article
F. Alcon ; J.A. Zabala ; V. Martínez-García ; J.A. Albaladejo ; E.I. Lopez-Becerra ; M.D. de-Miguel ; J.M. Martínez-Paz |Irrigation water is a vital input for agricultural production. The supply of irrigation water to crops enhances land productivity and affects the agroecosystem functioning. Agroecosystems co-provide a wide range of agroecosystem services and dis[...]Article
M. Borrello ; L. Cecchini ; R. Vecchio ; F. Caracciolo ; L. Cembalo ; B. Torquati |Traditional agricultural landscapes provide cultural ecosystem services to human communities. However, the limited profitability of these landscapes often discourages farmers from preserving them. The current research evaluates: (i) whether the [...]Article
R. Duflot ; M. San-Cristobal ; E. Andrieu ; J.-P. Choisis ; D. Esquerré ; S. Ladet ; A. Ouin ; J. Rivers-Moore ; D. Sheeren ; C. Sirami ; M. Fauvel ; A. Vialatte |Farming intensity and landscape heterogeneity influence agrobiodiversity and associated ecological functions. The relative contributions of these agroecosystem components to agricultural production remain unclear because of inter-relations and w[...]Article
L. Battisti ; F. Larcher ; S. Grella ; N. Di Bartolo ; M. Devecchi |The Natura 2000 network is an ecological network covering the whole territory of the European Union to ensure the long-term maintenance of threatened or rare natural habitats and species of flora and fauna, including in metropolitan and rural ar[...]Article
Soils form a thin layer on the Earths surface and host an immense biological diversity, most of which is invisible. Yet the organisms living in soil provide crucial ecosystem services that human societies depend on. While intensive agricultural[...]Article
L.V. De Luca Peña ; S.E. Taelman ; N. Préat ; L. Boone ; K. Van der Biest ; M. Custódio ; S. Hernandez Lucas ; G. Everaert ; J. Dewulf |Nowadays, a variety of methodologies are available to assess local, regional and global impacts of human activities on ecosystems, which include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) and Ecosystem Services Assessment ([...]Article
Q. Yang ; G. Liu ; M. Casazza ; S. Dumontet ; Z. Yang |Ecological restoration programs have significantly contributed to the improvement of ecosystem services in the past two decades. However, due to climate change and rapid land use change, planning and management of ecosystem services restoration [...]