Ecosystem Assessment Based on Ecosystem Services
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 1212
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ecosystem services are the benefits that people and communities derive from natural habitats. The services they provide support and promote our health and well-being. Many of the services and benefits we derive from ecosystems are being degraded and lost due to relentless development. To continue to benefit from ecosystem services, critical services must be supported, and where they decline, action must be taken to reverse the situation. For this to be realized, ecosystem services need to be considered when making developmental decisions. Ecosystem and environmental assessments of development will play a key role in achieving this. The ecosystem services approach provides a new perspective on ecosystem assessment, enabling deeper and more comprehensive analysis of issues at the landscape level, and for environmental risk assessment, supply and demand modelling, sustainable development, life cycle studies, etc. This Special Issue is the first step in providing such a multidisciplinary synthesis, focusing on, but not limited to, ecosystem health assessment, ecosystem risk assessment, ecosystem valuation, and ecosystem service mapping methodology. Given its systems-based approach, its ability to make trade-offs across temporal and spatial scales, and its growing acceptance by academia and stakeholders, this Special Issue makes cases for the ecosystem services approach as a comprehensive tool to promote greater ecosystem sustainability.
Dr. Sen Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecosystem services
- ecosystem assessment
- ecosystem health
- ecosystem risk
- ecosystem valuation
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