Sentences with phrase «called ecosystem services»

Many poor people live in places particularly affected by phenomena related to warming, and their livelihoods depend heavily on natural reserves and on so - called ecosystem services, such as agriculture, fisheries and forest resources.

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

«When we started Forest Trends, our goal was to create incentives around what we call ecosystem services,» says Michael Jenkins, CEO of Forest Trends.

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That's why BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has put together a comprehensive guide on the future of professional gaming called The eSports Ecosystem.

The company has highlighted the number of jobs created by the so - called app economy, an ecosystem of software and services that run on the iPhone and other Apple products.

No, of course, that is not what is happening, but again, there's been a incredible revolution [in what's] being called ecological economics, in the idea of the value of ecosystem goods and services.

Ecosystems provide the most basic provisioning services — food, firewood, and medicines — along with the so - called regulating services of a fully functional environment, which include cleaning the air, purifying water, controlling floods and erosion, storing carbon, and detoxifying pollutants in soils.

The researchers rated the economic benefits derived from five ecosystem services: sustainable bush meat hunting; timber harvest; bioprospecting for pharmaceuticals; carbon storage; and so - called existence value, or the intrinsic value of nature «as a source of wonder and inspiration,» the researchers write in the paper presenting their finding published yesterday in PLoS Biology.

The study, called «Modeling the effects of adopting agroforestry on basin scale surface runoff and sediment yield in the Philippines,» uses a computer - based Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to simulate the effects of different land uses on watershed hydrology and the ecosystem services provided by the Gabayan watershed.

In support of this, the international scientific community calls for a framework for regular global sustainability analyses that link existing assessments that build on the foundations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and other ongoing efforts.

Meanwhile, the Katoomba Incubator that supports innovative ecosystem service projects in Latin America and Africa is working with the private, nonprofit group called Amazonicos por la Amazonia, loosely translated as For Amazon by Amazon or AMPA, to develop a forest - carbon policy, region - wide baseline and accounting framework.

Environmental and social advocacy organization Navdanya has stated concerns that expanding Jatropha cultivation on wastelands will simply be a land grab by corporations, and that so - called wastelands actually provide valuable ecosystem services, and I tend to take such concerns seriously.

The collective value of these benefits — ecosystem services, as they're often called — would further rationalize organic farming, the study authors say.

The plan calls for wealthy countries to pay developing countries to preserve their rainforests arguing that these ecosystems store massive amounts of carbon dioxide as well as providing important ecological services and serving as a repository for most of the planet's biodiversity.

Alibaba wants to fully incorporate Ele.me's platform into its ecosystem and broaden the scope of the e-commerce company's strategy for local services called «New Retail,» which is meant to seamlessly combine the online and offline shopping experiences of consumers with the use of technology.

Also read: Lisk Community Continues Developing Ecosystem Tools, Services International Crackdown on Ransomware The initiative, called «No More Ransom,» has a simple goal: make it more difficult for cyber criminals to capitalize on ransomware by outsmarting them.

Blockchain calls the move an attempt to «strike a devastating blow to the Bitcoin ecosystem,» noting that the apps removal affects 120,000 users who were otherwise entirely satisfied with the wallet service provided.

A recent report called The Rise of FinTech in China — Redefining Financial Services from DBS and EY places a powerful light on China's unique, dynamic and rapidly evolving FinTech ecosystem, while examining the key drivers behind the explosive growth of FinTech sector in the country — including Blockchain.