Sentences with phrase «ecosystem services into»

Portela said such findings translate the importance of ecosystem services into financial terms that governments use to make decisions.

Not exact matches

And, since the customer is already in that universe, it is also more likely to buy third - party services that fit nicely into that existing ecosystem.

As the hardware becomes more and more indistinguishable, the next focus of the smartphone wars will be about locking consumers into an ecosystem of content and services.

And those of us who bought into the Google ecosystem lose out on Amazon's streaming services.

For Tencent and the other companies providing them, the streaming apps are just another bridge into a broader ecosystem of services.

But that service ropes buyers into the Nike ecosystem, which also includes apps and the wearable FuelBand performance monitor.

By that measure, the legal cannabis business is rapidly accelerating into stage three, as an ecosystem of financial and other services quickly grows up.

The products and services are designed specifically for financial firms looking for strategic insight into the pace and path of the core themes shaping the financial services ecosystem.

Ecosystem goods and services have most recently been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well - being,» which can further be divided into one of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation of these categories).

We believe this move into TV will also benefit all the other devices and services in the Apple ecosystem.

Extending into business - to - business (B2B) commerce and distribution, cloud services, media and hardware, the Amazon ecosystem now covers a huge part of the economy.

Which value - added services can you incorporate into your own ecosystem with the least resources but maximum gain?

Biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and severe impacts on ecosystem services — which refer to nature's support of wildlife habitat, crop pollination, soil health and other benefits — have not only accompanied conventional farming systems, but have often extended well beyond the boundaries of their fields, such as fertilizer runoff into rivers.

This three - year project will determine the economic value of these «ecosystem services» received from conserved land and clean water, and incorporate the information into decision - making for smart land use in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

The Office streamlines these various programs into a concerted effort to improve community services, strengthen local and regional economies, and preserve coastal ecosystems.

Their Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forests section looks into improving forest management, and carries out research in biodiversity, forest ecosystems and human health, and climate change and forests.

It also makes the point that biodiversity and nature's contributions to people are better protected when integrated into a broad array of economic and sectoral policies, such as payment for ecosystem services and voluntary eco-certification.

«This fossil is a unique representative from an incredibly important era in the evolution of mammals; the ecosystem of the whole world changed as the Triassic transitioned into the Jurassic,» said study senior author Neil Shubin, PhD, Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.

Although it is absolutely necessary to change the economic incentives if land is to be managed as an ecosystem, what I want to suggest is that the definition of a PES as well as of ecosystem valuation needs to take into account that services from ecosystems have very different characteristics from a loaf of bread.

The evaluated models will be used for predicting the different services soil renders to ecosystems in a dynamic way and for testing classical theory, where soil structure is not directly taken into account.

Going with iOS means going with Apple, which means buying into all the platforms, apps and services that make up the Apple ecosystem.

If you think you're locked into an ecosystem now, just imagine if you'd been using the same services since before you could ride a bike.

Not only do end users benefit from the service being launched today, but publishing companies can submit their books into the ecosystem.

During the demo and launch event earlier today, Sony's reps showed how the Xperia Ion integrates into a wider ecosystem of services and devices.

Additionally, these views arise in a context where strong majorities of adults consider themselves «lifelong learners» and libraries around the country are working to fit their programs and services into local educational ecosystems — both the formal parts of it (such as schools) and the informal parts of it (such as «do it yourself» learning opportunities).

As the iPad and new Android tablets grew in popularity, Amazon began to work on its own tablet that would capitalize on the Kindle brand and lock consumers into Amazon's ecosystem of products and services.

They'd be just as happy to have an iPad user locked into using Amazon services thanks to the closed ecosystem being developed, since content is where the money is anyway.

According to Playstation EU boss Jim Ryan, the service doesn't fit into the Playstation ecosystem.

The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty, climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public policy and responsible lobbying.

The report, «Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services,» is one of a suite of studies feeding into what will be the third National Climate Assessment, an overarching analysis of impacts on everything from transportation systems to public health.

This study report under the coordination of Conservation International (CI - Brazil), recommends that companies should understand and incorporate into their decision making process, the economic value of biodiversity and ecosystems services...

Many other challenges such as the distortion of ecosystem services, the loss of biodiversity, the degradation of land, sprawling urbanization, worsening water scarcity, the disturbances in terrestrial and marine food chains or the ubiquitous pollution of all environmental systems have to be taken into consideration.

SCC is effectively an estimate of the direct effects of carbon emissions on the economy, and takes into consideration such factors as net agricultural productivity loss, human health effects, property damages from sea level rise, and changes in ecosystem services.

«We don't take control of a project, but instead try and create the tools that decision - makers need to succeed or fail on their own merits — such as finding out who has the rights to payments for ecosystem services and how you can get information about these new and completely untested markets into the hands of communities so they can understand what they're committing to and weigh that against what they can receive.»

Further motivations for incorporating tree richness into planted forests include the contribution of diversity to total forest carbon - pool development, carbon - pool stability and the provision of extra ecosystem services.

A country can use more natural resources and services than its ecosystems can regenerate by liquidating its own ecological assets and / or emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The southern pine beetle is projected to be able to expand into vast areas of the northeastern US and southeastern Canada by 2050 posing risks to forest structure, biodiversity and associated ecosystem services.

But tree plantations don't stack up well to natural forests into terms of biodiversity, carbon storage, or maintenance of ecosystem services, indicating that Malaysia suffered very extensive decline of its natural capital base.

Generally, payments for ecosystem services systems fall into three categories:

This analytical document assesses how deforestation affects the economy of the United Republic of Tanzania, both by looking at the limited ecosystem goods and services currently reflected in GDP and by looking at the effects on the economy if the full suite of forest ecosystem services are taken into account.

«Straight economic figures don't take into account a dollar value for ecosystem services,» says Reganold.

Plus, Biodiversity & Natural Capital Depletion... And that doesn't even take into account the loss in biodiversity, natural capital, unpaid ecosystem services, and potential lost income from sustainable use of forest products or eco-tourism.

«Straight economic figures don't take into account a dollar value for ecosystem services.»

This requires taking your legal hat off and poring over your competitor's annual reports and other public filings, analysts» reports, trade publications, and subscription services on your client's business, understanding the ecosystem it operates in, identifying what the competitive differentiators are in terms of its products and services, the vertical your client will be selling into, and getting a grasp of how money is made in the client's industry.

Now, like so many features that started organically within the Twitter ecosystem, the «ReTweet» function has been woven into the service's functionality.

«The NASDAQ's open source exchange technology allows itBit to plug bitcoin into the broader and established financial services ecosystem.

Paycent is evolving a full financial ecosystem that includes mPOS services integrated into the application, which allows users to pay for utilities and telecom needs.

An ecosystem of young stars sprung up around the service, which evolved into a kind of live - action cartoon network.

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.

Alibaba Group on Monday said it would acquire all of the outstanding shares that it does not already own in Ele.me, a leading online delivery service in China, to deepen the platform's integration into Alibaba's ecosystem and further expand the technology company's New Retail strategy for local services.