The assessment of ecosystem services provides an intuitive source information on the benefits humans derive from ecosystems. equivalent factor method was applied to calculate service value (ESV) in combination with net primary productivity (NPP) calculated by process-based Carnegie–Ames–Stanford approach (CASA) model. This study evaluated grassland ESV and its spatial evolution characteristics ...

Urbanization, and the resulting land use/cover change, is a primary cause of the degradation of coastal wetland ecosystems. Reclamation projects are seen as a way to strike a balance between socioeconomic development and maintenance of coastal ecosystems. Our aim was to understand the ecological changes to Jiangsu’s coastal wetland resulting from land use change since 1977 by using remote sensi...

This research is concerned with the following environmental research questions: socio-ecological system complexity, especially when valuing ecosystem services; ecosystems stock and services flow sustainability and valuation; the incorporation of scale issues when valuing ecosystem services; and the integration of knowledge from diverse disciplines for governance and decision making. In this cas...

The increasing pressure on the earth’s resources due to population growth requires that development and resource use be managed to maintain a sustainable environment so as to preserve or enhance human well-being. A practical approach for demonstrating the environmental sustainability of an action (e.g., green business practice) through ecosystem service analysis is presented. The overarching pr...

Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake in China. Water ecosystems play an important role survival and development of human society. The evaluation water ecosystem services helpful to understand grasp changing rules Lake’s value recent years. First, we used Environment Qualities Index (WQI) evaluate ecological quality Lake; second, on basis survey data from 2010 2018, combined economic ...

Despite billions of dollars invested in e-government systems annually, the degree to which these systems deliver public value varies widely. It is posited that traditional means of evaluating these systems overlook important value measures needed to support effective use and ultimate success of e-government. This paper develops a conceptual framework grounded upon Service Dominant Logic to prov...

An historical generalization about forest cover change in which rapid deforestation gives way over time to forest restoration is called "the forest transition." Prior research on the forest transition leaves three important questions unanswered: (1) How does forest loss influence an individual landowner's incentives to reforest? (2) How does the forest recovery rate affect the likelihood of for...

Continuous optimization of value co-creation in networks of consumers and autonomous service enablers describes a major challenge to mediating platform operators. In analogy to systems theory, we propose to introduce customizable feedback loops from the service-enabling ecosystem to the service enablers via the platform operator. Relevant feedback information can be derived from analysis of net...

Continuous optimization of value co-creation in networks of consumers and autonomous service enablers describes a major challenge to mediating platform operators. In analogy to systems theory, we propose to introduce customizable feedback loops from the service-enabling ecosystem to the service enablers via the platform operator. Relevant feedback information can be derived from analysis of net...