Whales enhance phytoplankton growth, which absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide. The value of this service is estimated to ...

1.2 Ecological Economics and Ecosystem Services By the middle of the 1980s, a number of economists and ecologists, expressing doubts about the ability of standard economic analyses (in terms of ...

What powers life? In most ecosystems, sunlight is absorbed and converted into usable forms of energy via photosynthesis. These usable forms of energy are carbon-based. A primary example of this ...

and how to best conserve species and services given uncertainty and climate variability. To do so, I use statistical and mathematical modeling approaches and combine tools from ecology, decision ...

Healthy ecosystems are essential for human well being, as they provide invaluable functions and services including ... human health and even socio-economic development, as recognized by the ...

This means that the focus of area classification is on the ecological importance and relevance for ecosystem services rather than on the type of land use ... not only the terrestrial territory but ...

The new framework recognizes that ecosystems deliver important services that generate benefits for people. In essence, they are assets to be maintained, similar to economic assets. For example ...

RAIPUR: In a first, the Chhattisgarh state has introduced an innovative plan that connects the ecosystem services of its ...

Chhattisgarh has become the first state in India to initiate the valuation of ecosystem services as part of its economic ...