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Erixon, Aalto Hanna. "Projecting Urban Natures : Investigating integrative approaches to urban development and nature conservation." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Kritiska studier i arkitektur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-217153.

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Projecting Urban Natures is a compilation thesis in critical studies in architecture. It comprises three journal articles and four design proposals in which I have taken an active part. The point of departure for this thesis is the renewed emphasis on social-ecological interaction and resilience that is currently taking place within ecological systems science, and the opportunities that these paradigmatic insights in turn have opened up within urbanism and design. The thesis argues that although they are promising, these emerging integrative frameworks are seldom brought into mainstream planni

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Shackelford, Gorm. "Biodiversity and ecosystem services : pollination, biological control, and nature conservation in agricultural landscapes." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7411/.

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Agriculture has done more damage to nature than any other human activity, and yet food production could need to be doubled by the middle of this century. As agricultural land is expanded and intensified, critical thresholds in the loss of natural habitats are crossed. This loss of non-crop habitats can have negative feedback on crop production, because it can cause a loss of “ecosystem services” that support and regulate crop production, such as the pollination of crops by bees and the biological control of crop pests by their natural enemies. Because of this connection between non-crop habita

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Egoh, Benis Nchine. "Integrating ecosystem services into conservation planning in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1405.

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Thesis (PhD (Botany and Zoology))—University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>Natural ecosystems provide many services that are crucial for sustainability and health of human society. Ecosystem services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems (i.e. goods and services) and can be classified into provisioning (e.g. fibre, fuel wood); regulating (e.g. water and climate regulation); supporting (e.g. soil retention) and cultural (e.g. aesthetic value). The growing global human population and other threats place enormous stress on the natural environment reducing its capability to provide servi

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Visagie, Armand. "The Prolific Partition : Architecture as catalyst for nature reserve conservation structured in the in-between of Urban and Nature." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63672.

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Nature reserves in the City of Tshwane are under threat from ecological and historically significant decay due to the less defined nature of these landscapes. Architecture in form, function and technology can be developed in the in-between of nature and urban to act as conservator for these nature reserves. Utilizing the natural resources of nature to produce products for the urban dweller within a space that conserves the historical protective layers of the site. The space of interaction between nature and urban becomes the conservator, acting as active protector in terms of sustainable produ

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Zupan, Laure. "Au-delà des espèces, comment protéger simultanément l'histoire évolutive, le fonctionnement des écosystèmes et les services procurés par la nature." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENV063/document.

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La biodiversité est définie comme la variété et la variabilité du monde vivant sous toutes ses formes. Elle est souvent appréhendée par la richesse en espèces. Pourtant il existe d'autres « facettes » de la biodiversité (telles que la diversité phylogénétique et fonctionnelle) qui sont à considérer pour comprendre la plupart des processus évolutifs et écologiques. Aujourd'hui, la prise en compte de ces différentes facettes ainsi que les services des écosystèmes –bénéfices que les humains retirent directement des écosystèmes – sont au cœur de l'agenda européen de la conservation. Cependant pour

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Freitas, Rita Marlene Gonçalves de. "Conservação da natureza e serviços dos ecossistemas: identificação do cabaz de serviços associado a cada tipo de sítio da Rede Natura 2000 em Portugal Continental." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14757.

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A presente dissertação aborda a questão de até que ponto gerir áreas protegidas para maximizar a provisão de serviços de ecossistemas (SE), ou mesmo para maximizar as receitas provenientes da valorização desses serviços, poderá (ou não) colocar em causa (ou promover) os objetivos traçados para a conservação dos valores naturais (a conservação de biodiversidade) para os quais estas áreas foram inicialmente criadas. Neste contexto recorreu-se a técnicas de mapeamento dos níveis de provisão de diversos SE em Portugal Continental, técnicas de análise classificatória hierárquica para a construção d

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Brunet, Lucas. "La vie affective des services écosystémiques : recherche, communication scientifique et protection de la nature." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAH001.

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Habitués à considérer que la science est dépourvue d’émotions et à opposer l’émotion à la raison, les scientifiques n'ont pu reconnaitre la place centrale qu'occupent les affects dans leurs pratiques de recherche. Cette thèse se propose d'appréhender le rôle joué par de multiples affects et émotions dans la diffusion de la notion scientifique de Services Écosystémiques (SE) à partir d’une étude multi-sites informée par des entretiens avec des scientifiques et des praticiens de la conservation de la nature ainsi que par des observations participantes de leur travail et de leurs interactions. Ém

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Iqbal, Akhtar. "Effets de la nature et décomposition des mulchs de résidus végétaux sur les services assurés par les sols en agriculture de conservation : Étude expérimentale et modélisation." Thesis, Reims, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013REIMS001.

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En agriculture de conservation (AC), les résidus de cultures sous forme de paillis à la surface du sol associés à la suppression du travail du sol sont une composante intrinsèque des systèmes de culture. L'objectif principal de ce travail était de comprendre les effets de la nature et de la décomposition de mulch de résidus s sur les services d'approvisionnement et de régulation fournis par les sols dans les agrosystèmes en AC de régions tempérées (France) et tropicales (Madagascar et le Brésil). Des études expérimentales ont été réalisées pour obtenir des paramètres de décomposition pour une

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Erlank, Wayne Michael. "An evaluation of the feasibility of obtaining payment for ecosystem services for the Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003862.

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Cities must go further and further away to find new, more costly sources of water for human consumption while industries and agriculture continue to compete for increasingly scarce water resources. This may already be seen occurring within the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro where the severe drought being experienced during the past 18 months has severely depleted water supply dams. One of the main supply dams to the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is situated within the Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve and World Heritage Site. The potential of funding the Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve and World Heritage

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Bernardo, Karina de Toledo. "Avaliação da efetividade de esquemas de pagamentos por serviços ambientais hídricos: proposta metodológica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18139/tde-30082016-110743/.

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O pagamento por serviços ambientais (PSA) é um instrumento econômico baseado na transferência de benefícios em troca de práticas conservacionistas que assegurem ou aumentem a prestação de serviços ambientais. O instrumento vem ganhando força como estratégia de conservação e restauração de ambientes naturais e, embora bastante pesquisado nos últimos anos, ainda não há um sistema de avaliação que apresente resultados de forma rápida e transmita segurança aos atores envolvidos. Diante dessa lacuna, este trabalho tem como objetivo propor um modelo de avaliação da efetividade de esquemas de pagamen

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Scheba, Andreas. "Commodifying forest carbon : how local power, politics and livelihood practices shape REDD+ in Lindi Region, Tanzania." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/commodifying-forest-carbon-how-local-power-politics-and-livelihood-practices-shape-redd-in-lindi-region-tanzania(c98476d1-8948-4582-9468-88ac2ceea40d).html.

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International efforts to promote REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest-carbon stocks) have enjoyed widespread support in climate negotiations. While proponents of this ‘payments for ecosystem services’ approach proclaim win-win benefits, others critique this commodification of forest carbon for contributing to social and environmental injustices that will undermine conservation and development in the longer-term. In this dissertation I respond to these concerns by critically

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Magnusson, Julia. "Adaptive Forest Policy : The Integration of Disaster Risk Reduction through Nature-Based Solutions in Swedish and Scottish Forest Policy." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-443541.

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Climate change may cause significant changes to our relationship with nature, triggering large impacts on ecosystems and the societies dependent on their ecosystem services. Forests are seen as a mitigating solution for their abilities to store carbon, provide forest products, enhance biodiversity along with other forest ecosystem services (FES). Forest’s natural systems have shown resilience against climate-induced disasters and have been acknowledged as an important tool to mitigate climate change. However, to ensure the continued supply of these services requires adaptable management of for

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Frickner, Elvira. "Naturvård i den urbana miljön : En studie kring naturvård med häst i en tid av urban förtätning." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-229986.

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När man inom stadsplanering strävar efter att förtäta städer och urbana miljöer blir balansen mellan stad och natur allt viktigare, särskilt som befolkningen växer och behovet av täta städer lika så. Också medvetenheten om funktionerna i dessa grönområden blir betydelsefulla när naturen och dess tjänster ska planeras in som resurser i samhället på en begränsad yta. För att bevara de många värden och ekosystemtjänster som naturen tillhandahåller åt samhället behöver dessa områden skötas på ett lämpligt sätt. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka naturvård med hjälp av häst i urbana miljöer o

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Hagen, Brett. "The critical natural capital of the Buffalo City Municipality, South Africa : harnessing local action for biodiversity conservation." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007075.

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Globally, ecosystems provide services of almost twice the value of global gross national product (Costanza et al., 2006). The Buffalo City Municipality (BCM), South Africa contains biodiversity of national and international importance (Pierce, 2003; Pierce et al., 2005). Despite this, the municipality continues to experience loss of both urban and rural biodiversity (Buffalo City Municipality, 2006a). This study sought to determine the status of biodiversity, and the potential for ecosystem services to contribute to conservation, within the BCM. Biodiversity features, including ecosystem type,

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Wimer, Bergman Clara, and Sofie Nilsson. "En kvalitativ studie om naturområden och människans mående under covid-19 restriktioner." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44280.

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Den 11 mars 2020 klassificerade Världshälsoorganisationen (WHO) covid-19 viruset som en pandemi. I Sverige infördes restriktioner för att begränsa smittspridningen av viruset genom att minska människans fysiska kontakt. Under pandemin började allt fler människor besöka naturområden och besöksantalet ökade kraftigt. Syftet med studien var att undersöka förhållandet mellan människa och natur i relation till stödjande- och kulturella ekosystemtjänster som människan tillgår när hon vistas i naturen. Studiens metod utgjordes av en kvalitativ intervjustudie som bestod av två delar för att inkludera

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Narloch, Ulf Gerrit. "Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services : how to make incentive mechanisms work for conservation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609999.

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Silva, Vasco Manuel Almeida da. "Assessing the relationship between habitats conservation status and ecosystem services in Natura 2000." Doctoral thesis, ISA, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/21197.

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Doutoramento em Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Naturais - Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Universidade de Lisboa<br>Natura 2000 is the pan-European network of protected areas and classifies different habitat types, including shrub-grasslands as of conservation interest. The use and management to which these habitat types are subject potentially affect their conservation status and the ecosystem services they generated, including regulating services as carbon storage or wildfire prevention. Wildfire prevention is an important ecosystem service in the Mediterranean region and management pr

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Watson, Keri B. "Conservation of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Vermont, USA." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/822.

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Supporting a growing human population while avoiding biodiversity loss is a central challenge towards a sustainable future. Ecosystem services are benefits that people derive from nature. People have drastically altered the earth’s land surface in the pursuit of those ecosystem services that have been ascribed market value, while at the same time eroding biodiversity and non-market ecosystem services. The science required to inform a more balanced vision for land-cover change in the future is rapidly developing, but critical questions remain unanswered regarding how to quantify ecosystem servi

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Murdock, Jeremy Neal. "Conservation planning, what is used and what is needed a needs assessment survey of the Mississippi National Resources Conservation Service /." Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2007. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-11082007-214713.

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Pritzlaff, Richard G. "A Meta-Analysis of Successful Community-Based Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs." Thesis, Prescott College, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10822273.

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<p> Ecosystem services (ES), payments for ecosystem services (PES), and the development of markets for PES are transformational concepts and practices that emerged from environmental and ecological economics. Although the establishment of regulatory markets tends to be “top down,” there is evidence that more locally acceptable and successful markets tend to come from the community, from the “bottom up.” This meta-analysis analyzes 20 recent articles that examined approximately 454 PES cases from around the world, most organized from the bottom up. Cross-case analysis re

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Mbanjwa, Sibonelo Glenton. "The implementation of a performance management system in the Northern Cape Department of Environment and Nature Conservation." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003869.

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This document consists of three sections, and they are the academic paper (section 1), literature review (section 2) and research methodology (section 3). The academic paper consists of the purpose of the research, the summarised literature review, summarised research methodology and the research findings. The literature review section is a detailed review of literature used in this study. The research methodology section explains the research methodology and design which was employed in this study and it gives more details than the summarised version of the academic paper section. This summar

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Patterson, Patricia E. "Ecosystem-level research planning and use in the National Park Service : the case of the Florida panther." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28865.

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Stults, Shelby A. "Quantifying Environmental Services: A Spatial Analysis of Northern Guatemala." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524062954466614.

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Moore, Chela Kirpal. "El arado : breaking ground for payment for environmental services based on opportunity costs of conservation in Ecuador /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1090935858.

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Merck, Florence. "La biodiversité végétale au service des ingrédients naturels : étude des propriétés antimicrobiennes et antioxydantes d’extraits végétaux et développement d’un conservateur naturel pour l’industrie cosmétique." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AZUR4118/document.

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Cette thèse de doctorat a été réalisée dans le cadre du projet NATUBAVAL visant à découvrir de nouveaux conservateurs naturels pour l’industrie cosmétique, à partir de plantes issues d’un des hotspots mondiaux de biodiversité : le bassin méditerranéen. Dix-sept extraits ont ainsi été obtenus et évalués quant à leurs propriétés antimicrobiennes contre Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Aspergillus brasiliensis et Candida albicans, ainsi que leur capacité antioxydante. Santolina chamaecyparissus a démontré des propriétés remarquables, et a été sélectionnée pour une étude plus approfo

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Rakevicius, Edgaras, and Marjolaine Bert. "Exploring the Use of Internal Marketing Within Non Profit Organisations : The example of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-13944.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the potential of internal marketing within non profit organisations. Method: Qualitative case study of an NPO with the part of primary research based on fives interviews of workers.T heoretical framework: The framework consists of theories and models on internal marketing. Internal marketing is studied from the point of view of its tools of implementation, its purposes and also its limits. Conclusion: Internal marketing is revealed as a high potential for NPOs. However, this concept, developed for the profit area, requires some adaptations to fi

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Kassberg, Anna. "(RE)DEFINE GROWTH : How to Connect Ön and the City while Preserving, Emphasising and Intensifying the Green, Rural and Recreational Qualities." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-141644.

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Ön is an island in central Ume River. Today Ön is a rural, green place with key habitats and historical values. In 2008 the municipality took the decision to exploit it by building city there. The decision was preceded by the emerging growth target, for Umeå, to become 200,000 inhabitants in 2050. The research material for this paper consists of legal documents, reports, literature, interviews, and own observations. It can be divided into three main parts. The first part, which is the ‘growth discourse’, is investigated through documents concerning political strategies and influe

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Posner, Stephen Mark. "The impact of ecosystem services knowledge on decisions." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2015. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/413.

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The need to protect diverse biological resources from ongoing development pressures is one of today's most pressing environmental challenges. In response, "ecosystem services" has emerged as a conservation framework that links human economies and natural systems through the benefits that people receive from nature. In this dissertation, I investigate the science-policy interface of ecosystem services in order to understand the use of ecosystem service decision support tools and evaluate the pathways through which ecosystem services knowledge impacts decisions. In the first paper, I track an ec

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Nolfi, Daniel C. "National Park Service Cave and Karst Resources Management Case Study: Great Smoky Mountains National Park." TopSCHOLAR®, 2011. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1053.

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As discussed in the National Parks Service’s (NPS) Directors Orders/Natural Resources Management Reference Manual #77 and the 2006 NPS Management Policy Handbook, implementing a management plan specifically for cave and karst resources within a national park is paramount to afford these resources appropriate protection. With support from the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act and the National Park Service Organic Act of 1906, management actions protecting caves has begun to place significant importance outside the traditional cave environment onto a broader karst landscape. The need to unde

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Nelson, Jason M. "The Roles of Natural and Semi-Natural Habitat in the Provisioning of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of Beneficial Insects in Agricultural Landscapes." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1344485293.

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Gomez, Maria. "Modeling Coastal Vulnerability for Insight into Mangrove and Coral Reef Conservation Efforts in Cuba." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7562.

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Cuba’s expansive coral reefs and mangrove habitats provide a variety of ecosystem services to coastal communities including nursery grounds for fisheries, shoreline stability, and storm and flood protection. While Cuba’s coastal habitats are some of the most preserved in the Caribbean, they are under increasing threat of degradation from the impacts of climate change, increased tourism, and coastal development. With the goal of sustainable development, Cubans need to assess the storm and flood protection benefits these coastal habitats provide, and integrate this information into future expans

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Ricou, Charles. "Conception d’un indicateur prédictif évaluant les effets des pratiques agricoles sur la diversité floristique et ses services en grandes cultures à l’échelle de la bordure de champ." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORR0107/document.

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Développer des systèmes de culture respectant voire favorisant la biodiversité est un enjeu important pour les agronomes dans le contexte sociétal actuel. Pour ce faire, ceux-ci ont besoin de méthodes prédictives d’évaluation des effets des pratiques agricoles sur la biodiversité pour caractériser et évaluer les systèmes étudiés. Les écologues reconnaissent la nécessité d’aborder la biodiversité non seulement comme la richesse spécifique mais aussi par le biais des services écosystémiques qu’elle peut rendre à l’homme. Il existe de nombreuses propositions d’indicateurs de biodiversité mais ceu

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Dablemont, Todd Wayne. "The effectiveness of the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and Huff rainfall distribution methods for use in detention basin design." Diss., Rolla, Mo. : Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2010. http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/thesis/pdf/Dablemont_09007dcc8078b285.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2010.<br>Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed April 8, 2010) Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60).

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Pfirrmann, Bruce William. "Ecosystem Services of Restored Oyster Reefs in a Chesapeake Bay Tributary: Abundance and Foraging of Estuarine Fishes." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639466.

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Oyster reef restoration may enhance the production of ecologically or economically important fish species, an ecosystem service, by providing refuge and foraging habitat. Predicting the effects of oyster habitat restoration on fisheries production in Chesapeake Bay requires a better understanding of fish habitat use, trophic dynamics, and the processes leading to production on a habitat-scale. The objective of this thesis was to evaluate the influence of restored subtidal oyster reefs on the abundance and foraging patterns of mobile estuarine fishes. Specifically, I compared the 1) abundance,

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Rebelo, Alanna Jane. "An ecological and hydrological evaluation of the effects of restoration on ecosystem services in the Kromme River System, South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71967.

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Thesis (MScConsEcol)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Wetland systems provide vital hydrological ecosystem goods and services to mankind. When wetlands are transformed, through invasion by alien plants or replaced with agriculture, natural capital is lost, and the system is no longer able to provide the same quality of hydrological ecosystem services. Natural capital can be restored, but it involves substantial financial investment, and there is no guarantee that these hydrological ecosystem services will be fully recovered. This thesis aimed to investigate the hydrological

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Remaury, Hugo. "Ex-ante economic and ecosystem service potential of simulated conservation practices in Ghana using a minimum data approach." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13248.

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Master of Science<br>Department of Agricultural Economics<br>Timothy J. Dalton<br>Given the changing climate paradigm, food and poverty are likely to become more severe in Africa. Farmers can adapt to climate change, especially through conservation agriculture. This study relies on a minimum data approach developed by Antle and Valvidia (2006) to estimate the spatial distribution of opportunity cost for farmers in switching to conservation practices in Wa, Ghana. It assesses the economic feasibility of several scenarios that rely on production techniques currently studied by the CRSP SANREM pr

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Vilímová, Dana. "Práva a povinnosti veřejné správy v oblasti ochrany přírody a krajiny." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-76591.

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The diploma thesis deals with the rights and obligations of the public administration in the protection of nature and landscape. It contains an introduction to the legal norms as a foundation for the activity of the public administration - the self-government and the municipal government. It gives the fundamental information about administrative law, administrative regulations and the principles of its activities. It describes the organizational structure of the public administration in the environmental protection, competences of the public administration institutions in protection of nature

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Molina, Villamar John Enrique. "Análisis Participativo de Servicios Escosistémicos derivados del Programa Nacional de Reforestación en Manabí, Ecuador." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672251.

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Al analizar los servicios ecosistémicos ecuatorianas del “Programa Nacional de Reforestación con fines de conservación ambiental, protección de cuencas hidrográficas y beneficios alternos (PNR)” mediante la adaptación y el uso del método de evaluación IAPro, se espera facilitar la participación ciudadana en el proceso de toma de decisiones, y con ello aportar conocimiento científico y práctico para el diseño de políticas de gestión de recursos naturales. Del ejercicio de evaluación de las consecuencias del cambio climático en la provisión de servicios ecosistémicos se

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Mesmin, Xavier. "La régulation naturelle des insectes ravageurs des cultures légumières et ses conséquences sur la production : quantification du service fourni et recherche de leviers pour son intensification." Thesis, Rennes, Agrocampus Ouest, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NSARC134/document.

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Le développement d’une agriculture moins dépendante des pesticides repose en partie sur la maximisation des services écosystémiques. L’objectif principal de cette thèse était de quantifier le service de régulation des insectes ravageurs par leurs ennemis naturels, en conditions expérimentales et en situation de production. Le travail a porté sur les brassicacées légumières soumises aux attaques de ravageurs aériens et souterrains (pucerons et mouche du chou). Nous avons évalué leur nuisibilité pour quantifier les dégâts et dommages qu’ils peuvent générer. Nos résultats confirment la moindre nu

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Van, Wert Kristina K. "Attractiveness of English thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.) to arthropod natural enemies and its suitability as a dual use resource." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2020. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2179.

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Current agroecosystem management practices have a negative effect on natural enemies and their ability to control insect pests. Conservation biological control through the addition of flowering resources can manage food resources for natural enemies. These floral resources can also provide multiple ecosystem services. Study goals were to determine if perennial Thymus vulgaris L. was attractive to natural enemies and if so, could it be a dual use resource encouraging pest management and providing harvestable product. In 2018 plots in three locations were used to examine the effect of habitat th

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Olmsted, Daniel T. "Effective Environmental Management of the National Park Service: A Case Study of Channel Islands National Park." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/51.

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The topic of protected area management serves as the focal point of my thesis. The fundamental question I seek to answer is; what constitutes effective environmental management and how is it exemplified in the National Park Service (NPS)? How exactly does the NPS continually earn the trust and confidence of the American people when so many other government agencies are viewed in a negative light? How does the Channel Islands National Park, in particular, shape the economic and political framework in which it operates to achieve its goals? How does this agency effectively manage such a complex

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Garrett, Lucy. "The equity and efficiency of incentives to manage ecosystem services for natural resource conservation and rural development : case studies from Lombok, Indonesia and Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/53451/.

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Incentives to manage ecosystem services have been heralded as important mechanisms to increase efficiency in biodiversity conservation and to facilitate greater equity in the distribution of natural resources. These interventions aim to control the use of natural resources by altering resource users’ land-use decisions and environmental behaviours. There is relatively little evidence, however, about the perceived benefits and societal values of incentives, and the institutional effectiveness of incentives to alter land-use behaviours to increase compliance. It is also unclear how incentive-bas

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Schwartz, Timothée. "Les dispositifs artificiels au service de la restauration et de la compensation écologique : de l’évaluation du risque de piège écologique aux recommandations de bonnes pratiques." Thesis, Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2020. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03177394.

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Pour faire face aux changements rapides de l’environnement induits par l’Homme, de nombreuses politiques publiques de protection de la nature ont été mises en place. Parmi celles-ci, les mesures compensatoires conduisent à restaurer des habitats d’espèces, qui peuvent cependant créer des pièges écologiques. Ce risque est particulièrement grand pour les dispositifs artificiels, largement plébiscités, dont il est aujourd’hui crucial d’évaluer l’impact sur les populations. Dans cette thèse, à travers les exemples du Rollier d’Europe et des Laridés coloniaux nichant dans le Sud de la France, je mo

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Minnick, Michael John. "The roles of forest fragments and an invasive shrub in structuring native bee communities and pollination services in intensive agricultural landscapes." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1581000018403528.

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López-Hoffman, Laura, Jay Diffendorfer, Ruscena Wiederholt, et al. "Operationalizing the telecoupling framework for migratory species using the spatial subsidies approach to examine ecosystem services provided by Mexican free-tailed bats." RESILIENCE ALLIANCE, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626546.

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Drivers of environmental change in one location can have profound effects on ecosystem services and human well-being in distant locations, often across international borders. The telecoupling provides a conceptual framework for describing these interactions-for example, locations can be defined as sending areas (sources of flows of ecosystem services, energy, or information) or receiving areas (recipients of flows). However, the ability to quantify feedbacks between ecosystem change in one area and societal benefits in other areas requires analytical approaches. We use spatial subsidies-an app

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Nguyen, Hanh T. V. "Access to Natural and Financial Capital, and its Effects on Livelihood Strategies under the Payment for Forest Environmental Services Pilot Policy in Da Nhim Commune, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1339683883.

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Johner, Julia. "Pollinators in the city : Exploring the potential of urban environments as sites for conservation." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-166102.

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Insect pollinators provide indispensible ecosystem services for agricultural, natural and urban ecosystems, and have been declining drastically around the globe. These declines are largely due to fragmentation and loss of habitat resulting from urbanization and intensification of agriculture, and raise concerns over global food security. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of urbanization on abundance, species richness and diversity of insect pollinators, and whether urban environments have potential as sites for conservation. Cities are highly heterogeneous environments wi

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Barranco, Blasco Martín. "Situating adscriptions of value on Nature's Contributions to People : The case of traditional farmers in San Pedro, Paraguay." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-156893.

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This thesis focus on the unidimensional adscriptions of value behind industrial soybeans production in Paraguay. The thesis aims to present non-economic Nature’s Contributions to traditional farmers’ quality of life, the role of farmers’ traditional knowledge to display these contributions and the efficiency of such knowledge regarding high productive demands. From a theoretical framework based on nature’s contributions to people, ecosystem services, knowledge systems and conservation, the thesis formulates the following research questions: 1) What drives the prioritization of a single economi

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Harvey, Sarah L. "Recovery Measures for the State Endangered American Marten: An Internship with Two Wisconsin Natural Resource Agencies." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1105225283.

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Tashev, Azamat. "Understanding Ecosystem Services through Organizational Analysis: Application to the Truckee-Carson River System." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1515072255449453.

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