Sentences with phrase «ecosystems services with»

A Yale - led research team has adapted traditional asset valuation approaches to measure the value of such natural capital assets, linking economic measurements of ecosystem services with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

However, Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) as well as climate change can negatively affect the provision of these ecosystem services with potentially severe implications for food security, livelihoods, and human well - being.

To discuss ecosystem services with students is a way to use arguments that highlight our dependence on nature, financial values?

We did not calculate the trade - off curves for these wider ecosystem services with respect to logging.

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With competition over smartphone sales growing more intense, in September 2015 Apple broadened its ecosystem of services by introducing Apple Music, iTunes Movies, and iBooks to China.

A data ecosystem can be built cheaply with Amazon Web Services, but a data scientist still must examine the extracted knowledge.

American Well, which is partnered with some of the biggest providers and payers in health care (including the Cleveland Clinic and insurance giant Anthem), is aiming to create a host of new services with Samsung and being dubbed as an end - to - end digital health «ecosystem.»

Aaron is responsible for strategy and business development for Experian's Consumer Information Services business unit, with an emphasis on identifying market trends and facilitating partnerships with key players in the rapidly evolving FinTech startup ecosystem.

We have entered in - depth partnerships with a series of corporations to establish a brand new innovation ecosystem with strategic innovation plans, event operation, incubator operation, advisory service for connecting resources along the industrial chain, and venture capital.

I think Apple protects its core product with a strong product ecosystem and additional services.

In order to provide users with free services, many internet and mobile ecosystem companies monetize the information they hold about their users.

While an assessment of the NGP record with respect to ecosystem services will have to await a future post, the least that can be said is that their debut here is a positive development that is bound to alter the way EA is done in Canada going forward (for another potential application of the ecosystem services concept in Canadian environmental law, see here).

In Canada, ecosystem services research dates back to at least 2004, with the publication of Simon Fraser University Professor Nancy Olewiler's study, The Value of Natural Capital in Settled Areas of Canada.

It is truly a watershed moment, with Apple poised to take market share from Google (Android) in the premium device market as iPhone 6 becomes Apple's flagship device among a growing collection of products and services that work together to form an increasingly dominant mobile ecosystem.

Urban Station developed a proposal that combines specially designed spaces and services with a physical platform where freelancers, entrepreneurs and companies from different industries can conduct their activities in a flexible manner, concerning themselves only with their work, with the possibility of joining a community charged with entrepreneurial energy in an ecosystem that brings together entities like Endeavor, Tedex, Start Up Chile with entrepreneurs from every sector, multinationals and local companies, transcending borders and strengthening the network.

Coupled with Disney's already well - known properties, including «Star Wars» and Marvel's hit films, the additions create a new pipeline of content for Disney's forthcoming streaming service — a key aspect of its strategy to sell direct to consumers instead of through the pay TV ecosystem that has long fueled the media industry.

The future of finance is an ever increasingly converged ecosystem where consumer and small and medium enterprise financial services are provided by banks and by platform companies with roots in e-commerce.

CRYCASH is the first cryptocurrency designed to satisfy the needs of gamers and game developers with an ecosystem which offers customer - tailored services.

Connect with more than 700 industry influencers, including international VC and PE investors, debt and equity providers, institutional funds, high - growth entrepreneurs at the forefront of innovation, government entities, corporations and service providers who all have a vested interest in accelerating Canada's innovation and growth ecosystem.

FinCEN has stated that «exchangers» and «administrators» in the virtual currency ecosystem are considered money transmitters (a category of Money Service Businesses), and are therefore required to register with FinCEN and comply with AML regulations.

Square is also expanding that ecosystem with new services like its peer - to - peer payments platform Square Cash (which is integrated with Snap's (NYSE: SNAP) Snapchat and offers Bitcoin trading), its restaurant delivery and catering services Caviar and Zesty, and Square Capital, which offers financing for Square merchants.

Daniel Zhang, Alibaba Group's chief operating officer, said in a press conference last week that he hopes the 11.11 sale will become a true global shopping event in five to 10 years as Alibaba's e-commerce ecosystem, once largely confined within China's borders, continues to expand internationally through collaboration with more governments, banks and postal services in order to give shoppers everywhere a seamless, «local» e-commerce experience — no matter where the merchants they patronize are located.

The most striking difference between it and the other virtual currencies is its structured approach to business with constant roll out of new products and services as seen in the OneCoin ecosystem on the company site.

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

«We have been impressed with Kik's thoughtful approach to the creation and distribution of Kin, and have confidence that the team will execute their vision of creating a decentralized ecosystem of digital services through Kin.»

Yet in response to my post regarding the weakening of Criterion 2.8 for coffee farms, a Rainforest Alliance representative stated: «The current criterion 2.8 has not been implemented fully by farms and hence has not been effective in terms of delivering the objective of providing an agroforestry framework that balances both ecosystem services of trees with profitable production scenarios.»

In practice, the current criterion 2.8 has not been implemented fully by farms and hence has not been effective in terms of delivering the objective of providing an agroforestry framework that balances both ecosystem services of trees with profitable production scenarios.

With Towne Park as your strategic hospitality partner, you have a provider on your side devoted to the cultivation of a welcoming, guest - focused ecosystem of service.

Natural Products Business School provides an opportunity to connect with an ecosystem of service providers and potential investors, as well as gain impactful insights from a fantastic lineup of industry experts on scaling your brand and managing...

Dive in with Shedd Aquarium and other Chicago - area 6th - through 12th - grade students to explore local ecosystems while earning service - learning hours!

Jumia is part of broader ecosystem of services providing opportunities for local African businesses to do business with the fast - growing African consumers and middle class.

Earlier this year BASC published a white paper highlighting the important role that shooting plays in landscape - scale land management and highlighted the conservation based ecosystem services it provides in partnership with other land users and managers.

But those new strategies have yet to be identified, as Manning quickly points out: «The next step would be to have a closer look at the few spots with a high amount of synergies between different ecosystems services to see how this works and might be transferred to other sites».

This is in line with the international agreement, the Aichi Biodiversity Target, which refers to the importance of ecosystem service mapping methodologies.

«This work on a federally listed species provides managers with a more complete view of ecosystem services affected by consolidation drainage.»

«Knowing the distribution of threats and benefits — the linking of ecosystem service maps with threat maps — is a powerful and under - utilized tool to help us better manage the Great Lakes and other highly valued ecosystems,» Allan said.

Near the top of that list is the New Zealand flatworm, a relative newcomer to Ireland's shores, which feeds on native earthworms that provide important ecosystem services as well as currying favor with farmers for enhancing the fertility and drainage of agricultural soils.

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.

Ecosystem services also deliver substantial economic benefits, according to Daniel Juhn and Rosimeiry Portela, researchers who work with environmental non-profit organization Conservation International.

Agroforestry and other techniques for better environmental management of such agriculture remain rare, despite their proven ability to help balance increased food production with ecosystem services like carbon sequestration.

This growth, in turn, has had varying impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services,» said Dr. Madhav Karki (Nepal), co-chair of the Asia - Pacific assessment with Dr. Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu (Sri Lanka).

Storing the carbon associated with global warming proved the most remunerative of the ecosystem services, providing roughly $ 378 of value over every hectare — despite a relatively low assumed price of carbon of $ 2.50 per metric ton.

«We advocate complementing any carbon - based management approaches with other incentive schemes such as payment for ecosystem service programmes.»

There are two primary ways to achieve «environmental flows» of water necessary to sustain river ecosystems, write Mike Acreman, of the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and colleagues in a review published this month in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: controlled releases like the recent experiment on the Colorado that are designed with specific objectives for ecology and ecosystem services in mind and hands - off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river.

«Our results suggest that current levels of pesticide exposure could be significantly affecting how bees are interacting with wild plants, and impairing the crucial pollination services they provide that support healthy ecosystem function,» he said.

We quantify the changing value of natural stocks by linking economic measurements of ecosystem services — the income to society depending on nature — with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

«The results of our study suggest that efforts to mitigate local perturbation such as nutrient enrichment in the Baltic Sea could pay off in the future, because it might help key species such as the bladder wrack to better cope with the effects of climate change and to maintain their ecosystem services.»

In their new Conservation Genetics paper, the researchers say, «Past gene flow also suggests that human - assisted gene flow is necessary to conserve the ecosystem services associated with predation, since climate warming has reduced the frequency of ice bridges and with it the only opportunity for unassisted gene flow.

The ENTOURAGE ecosystem enables cross-platform use of smart services, thus allowing the Roomba vacuum assistant to communicate with speech assistants of different manufacturers, including Google's Alexa and Apple's Siri, as well as to coordinate with other devices such as a robot floor mop.

The report, funded by the Arcus Foundation, analyzed data collected with support from Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, KfW (German Development Bank), ICCN, Newman's Own Foundation, Rainforest Trust, UNESCO, USAID, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and World Bank.