Ecosystem governance of rural water ecosystem services under sustainable utilization

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

Sustainability of water ecosystem under uncertainty

The concept of sustainability, an abstract one by its nature, has been given a mathematical representation through the use of Fisher information as a measure. The measure is used to propose sustainability hypotheses for a dynamical system which has paved the way to achieve sustainable development through externally enforced control schemes. This work is an attempt to make further investigation ...

Technology Ecosystem Governance

Technology platform strategies offer a novel way to orchestrate a rich portfolio of contributions made by the many independent actors who form an ecosystem of heterogeneous complementors around a stable platform core. This form of organising has been successfully used in the smartphone, gaming, commercial software, and other industrial sectors. While technology ecosystems require stability and ...

Ecosystem services: an essential component of sustainable use.

Ecosystem services are those functions of natural systems perceived as beneficial to human society. Examples of ecosystem services are maintenance of atmospheric gas balance and water quality and preserving and providing genetic material for pest-resistant plants that will grow under conditions that the more commonly used agricultural plants will not [for a discussion, see Westman (1) and Cairn...

Science for the sustainable use of ecosystem services

Sustainability is a key challenge for humanity in the 21st century. Ecosystem services-the benefits that people derive from nature and natural capital-is a concept often used to help explain human reliance on nature and frame the decisions we make in terms of the ongoing value of nature to human wellbeing. Yet ecosystem service science has not always lived up to the promise of its potential. De...