Pursuit of multiple avenues can speed incorporating the value of natural capital and ecosystem services into operations of individuals and institutions, such as businesses, government, development banks, nongovernmental institutions, and households. As Phelps et al. (1) rightly point out, the PNAS Special Feature (2) and much of the existing literature have not focused extensively on incorporat...

This paper critically reviews the literature on environmental valuation of ecosystem services across the range of global biomes. The main objective of this review is to assess the policy relevance of the information encompassed by the wide range of valuation studies that have been undertaken so far. Published and other studies now cover most ecosystems, with aquatic and marine contexts attracti...

This study analyzes the primary factors influencing farmers’ awareness of ecosystem services. This study, through questionnaires, conducts research on farmers’ awareness of and demand for ecosystem service functions. The research encapsulates 156 households from 21 groups of villagers in the Guangxi Karst Ecological Immigration District in China. The results of the factors influencing farmers’ ...

There is a growing interest in assessing ecosystem services to improve ecosystem management in landscapes containing a mix of different ecosystems. While methodologies for assessing ecosystem services are constantly improving, only little attention has been given to the identification of which ecosystem services to assess. Service selection is mostly based on current state of the landscape alth...

The Tarim River Basin (TRB) is situated in the hinterland of northwest China, which an extremely arid and fragile ecological zone. In recent years, region’s civilization construction has been facing huge challenges that are exacerbated by climate change human activities. order to verify current status TRB, this paper explores spatial temporal variation ecosystem service value (ESV) impact mecha...

Urbanization and human activity have recently resulted in land use/cover change (LUCC), which has had a detrimental effect on the biological environment, keeping ecosystem’s sustainable growth comprehending quality changes over past 20 years central Yunnan urban agglomeration. The equivalent factor method hotspot analysis were used to analyze spatio-temporal use ecosystem service value (ESV) ag...