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The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artifacts. We now live in the “Anthropocene,” era in a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support system. Our traditional economic concepts and models were developed in an empty world. If we are to create sustainable prosperity, if we seek “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities,” we are going to need a new vision of the economy and its relationship to the rest of the world that is better adapted to the new conditions we face. We are going to need an economics that respects planetary boundaries, that recognizes the dependence of human well-being on social relations and fairness, and that recognizes that the ultimate goal is real, sustainable human well-being, not merely growth of material consumption. This new economics recognizes that the economy is embedded in a society and culture that are themselves embedded in an ecological life-support system, and that the economy cannot grow forever on this finite planet. In this report, we discuss the need to focus more directly on the goal of sustainable human well-being rather than merely GDP growth. This includes protecting and restoring nature, achieving social and intergenerational fairness (including poverty alleviation), stabilizing population, and recognizing the significant nonmarket contributions to human well-being from natural and social capital. To do this, we need to develop better measures of progress that go well beyond GDP and begin to measure human well-being and its sustainability more directly.
Economic Theory --- Business & Economics --- Economic development --- Environmental policy. --- Natural resources. --- Nature --- Environmental aspects. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Eco-development --- Ecodevelopment --- Economic aspects --- Government policy --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Human ecology --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Environmental auditing --- environmental policy --- economic development--environmental aspects --- Ecosystem --- Ecosystem services --- Gross domestic product --- Natural capital --- Quality of life --- Social capital --- Well-being
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Planting trees in the agricultural landscape, in the form of establishing agroforestry systems, has a significant role to play in potentially improving ecosystem services, such as increased biodiversity, reduced soil erosion, increased soil carbon storage, improved food security and nutrition, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. While the role of trees in agroforestry systems in improving ecosystem services has been researched, studies in new systems/regions and new agroforestry system designs are still emerging. This Special Issue includes selected papers presented at the 4th World Congress on Agroforestry, Montpellier, France 20–22 May 2019, and other volunteer papers. The scope of articles includes all aspects of agroforestry systems.
farmers’ knowledge --- ahannon-wiener index --- economic benefits --- alley cropping --- lignin --- shelterbelts --- agroforestry --- natural capital --- forest farming --- nutrient content --- agroforestry system --- review --- Amazonia --- cropland --- riparian buffers --- climate change --- subtropical acidic forest soil --- bees --- phosphorus --- pollination --- 15N tracing experiment --- stable isotope --- West Java --- interspecific competition --- growth form --- cropping system --- climate change mitigation --- gross N transformation rates --- East Africa --- improved-fallow --- N-fixing trees --- carbon sequestration --- home garden --- margalef index --- windbreaks --- leaf nutrient diagnosis --- agroforestry systems --- pollinators --- sorption --- forestland --- China --- temperature change --- fractionation --- hedgerows --- native trees --- slash-and-mulch --- soil N --- shade tree species --- soil C --- Alpinia oxyphylla --- sustainable management --- plant water use --- rubber-based agroforestry system --- ecosystem services --- Indonesia
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The school of thought surrounding the urban ecosystem has increasingly become in vogue among researchers worldwide. Since half of the world’s population lives in cities, urban ecosystem services have become essential to human health and wellbeing. Rapid urban growth has forced sustainable urban developers to rethink important steps by updating and, to some degree, recreating the human–ecosystem service linkage.Assessing as well as estimating the losses of ecosystem services can denote the essential effects of urbanization and increasingly indicate where cities fall short. This second book on urban ecosystem services contains 11 thoroughly refereed contributions published within the Special Issue “Urban Ecosystem Services II: Toward a Sustainable Future”. The book addresses topics such as cultural ecosystem services, green infrastructure, urban trees, urban green spaces, and more. The contributions highlight current knowledge, gaps, and future research with the focus on building a sustainable future.
urban biodiversity --- urban watersheds --- Bogota Colombia --- corruption --- Unwillingness to Invest --- natural capital --- blue-green infrastructure --- urban environmental challenges --- Global South --- tropical cities --- urban forestry --- cultural ecosystem services --- public survey --- tree maintenance --- urbanization --- birds --- ecosystem services --- survival --- adaptations --- traits --- land-based financing --- land monetisation --- policy --- infrastructure --- Sustainable Development Goals --- compensation measures --- urban resilience --- urban development --- impact assessment --- cityscape visual perception --- green infrastructure --- linear parks --- sustainable landscape planning --- tram lanes --- Warsaw --- ecosystem service value --- farmland loss --- construction land expansion --- remote sensing --- landscape architecture --- design --- evaluation --- urban ecosystem services --- urban tree planting --- i-Tree Canopy --- Office for National Statistics --- health damage costs --- United Kingdom --- n/a
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Both climate change and air pollution have large negative impacts on physiological processes and functions at the individual tree level and on whole forest ecosystems. The objective of climate change and air quality monitoring is to make decisions, based on scientific knowledge, regarding how to best manage and improve the current state of the environment. Our ability to take urgent measures to combat climate change and its impact on forest ecosystems and conserve forest biodiversity depends upon our knowledge of the latest scientific results on the status of forest ecosystems. Unfortunately, there are a lot of gaps in our knowledge of the detection and monitoring of their effects on forest ecosystems. This book presents relevant results from scientific research in the fields of climate change, air pollution, forest conservation, protection and monitoring that can contribute to a better science–policy interaction and to the elaboration of specific strategies, in accordance with the areas of forest sciences from IUFRO RG 8.04.00 - Impacts of air pollution and climate change on forest ecosystems.
silver fir --- radial growth --- wood characteristics --- drought response --- climate change --- current annual increment --- percentage volume increment --- basal area --- tree diameter --- tree form-height --- air pollution --- increment cores --- Norway spruce --- radial growth series --- gas exchange --- ecosystem restoration --- mountain forests --- photosynthesis --- diagnostic assessment --- forest ecosystem --- reference information --- restoration plan --- biodiversity --- forests --- valuing ecosystem services --- policy making --- SWAT --- hydrological model --- sensitivity analysis --- calibration --- validation --- small forested watershed --- temperate forests --- climate change effects --- Southern Carpathian forest management --- forest growth --- forest biomass --- virgin forests --- ecosystem services --- natural capital --- socio-economic system --- ecological indicators --- terrestrial laser scanning --- aerial laser scanning --- LANDIS-II --- PnET --- Southern Carpathians --- production --- species composition --- species abundance --- Romanian temperate forests --- n/a
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