Sentences with phrase «protecting ecosystem services»

This report offers suggestions for ocean conservation that should be considered in protecting ecosystem services: how our oceans function and what they offer us.

Each and every day seven billion of us hope to feed ourselves, slake our thirst, and wrest our energy needs from the Earth, even as we strive to protect the ecosystem services on which we depend and build resilience to Earth's hazards.

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

Agriculture and forestry services should focus on techniques that can make small farms viable productive units while protecting the integrity and productivity of land ecosystems.

A new study by a team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, sheds light on another, less well - known aspect of how these ecosystems, and forests in particular, can protect our planet against global warming.

Just as researchers have used genetics to improve food production, it can also provide solutions that maintain biodiversity and protect the services provided by native ecosystems.

Either we stand up and effectively protect these wildlife populations, or overhunting will erode their populations until we see major losses in both forest biodiversity and forest ecosystem services.»

Such resources, known as ecosystem services, were the subject of a symposium held at AAAS» headquarters in Washington, on May 19 where experts explored the role played by the natural forces of ecosystems in protecting adjacent lands and local communities.

«Understanding climate change impacts is vital to help protect marine ecosystem services that humans rely on so heavily such as fisheries, aquaculture and tourism» said Dr. Rob Ellis, an ecological physiologist also based at Exeter University.

And preserving biodiversity would largely protect critical ecosystem services.

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.

In their article, «Quantifying causal mechanisms to determine how protected areas affect poverty through changes in ecosystem services and infrastructure,» Ferraro and Georgia State alumnus Merlin Hanauer, now on the Economics faculty at Sonoma State University, examine three potential causes of poverty reduction linked to the establishment of protected areas:

This study shows that it can be a promising option to protect European forests from the impacts of climate change,» says IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management Program Research Scholar Nikolay Khabarov, who led the study.

Eleven percent of the Earth's land habitats are now set aside as national parks to conserve their biodiversity and ecosystem services; in contrast, less than 0.1 % of the world's oceans are fully protected, the researchers point out.

Strategically designed and implemented field projects will demonstrate the viability of blue carbon, facilitate the development of practical, science - based methodologies and build local and national capacity to protect and manage coastal ecosystems and their myriad ecosystem services in blue carbon - rich countries.

Combining ecology and economics, researchers find a novel way to manage ecosystem services and protect biodiversity

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

In order to save these island species, as well as protect sacred Chumash Native American cultural sites, the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy embarked upon a multi-year program to help restore balance to Santa Cruz Island's naturally functioning ecosystems.

From slowing, and maybe even reversing global climate change through soil carbon sequestration to creating perennial food crops that mimic natural prairies and help protect our waterways, there are many methods that could be deployed to both reduce farming's negative impact and simultaneously start rebuilding natural ecosystem services that have previously been degraded.

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

In addition to the benefits from reducing emissions, REDD activities can protect the biodiversity and important ecosystem services provided by tropical rainforests.

Just as researchers have used genetics to improve food production, it can also provide solutions that maintain biodiversity and protect the services provided by native ecosystems.

However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand for wood products, expansion of industrial agriculture, illegal and unplanned forest conversion, conflicts over land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect» forests through «payment for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.

Protecting watersheds and forests will greatly benefit the people of South Sudan, who are mostly agriculturalists and herders, by preserving precious ecosystem services.

Forest Trends» Coastal and Marine Initiative aims to protect marine ecosystem services by harnessing markets and private sector investment to complement conventional coastal and marine management methods.

Beyond the rise of compensation for ecosystem services, there are other signs that deforestation can be slowed, including improved fire management by large - scale landholders, growing concern in some commodity markets about the environmental performance of developers, new opportunities for sustainable development and gains in productivity, and establishment of protected areas in regions where development is expanding rapidly.

They also contribute important ecosystem services to broader populations — protecting water supplies, buffering shorelines, and sequestering carbon in soils and vegetation.

External stressors can make it difficult to define the parameters of target ecosystem services: While an emerging blue carbon PES scheme might successfully protect a mangrove from deforestation, it may have little influence on changes in upstream sediment loads or on sea - level rise.

At Forest Trends, she is heading up the MARES initiative — a program looking to protect Marine Ecosystem Services through Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) markets.

Given a priority to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services, it is important to further explore the drivers for the conversion of land at the frontier and to consider the effects, positive and negative, that U.S. biofuel policies could have in these areas.

Healthy ecosystems that provide people with essential natural goods and services often overlap with regions rich in biological diversity, underscoring that conserving one also protects the other, according to a new study.

«Our results suggest that protecting ecosystems and their services in the future may require investments that are substantially different, in size and in nature, from those made in the past,» he explained.

Mora estimates that the reefs provide $ 4 billion in ecosystem services - quantifiable benefits including fishing, tourism and protecting the coast from storms.:: Via The Guardian

Streamity is Building a Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange with P2P Services Streamity is developing a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange to protect cryptocurremcy community members from the risks of getting hacked and provide all users a safe ecosystem.

The Polybius ecosystem connects a «Digital Pass remote» ID service, protected personal data storage, and financial services through Polybius Bank.

The Exscudo ecosystem consists of various products and services, among them are: Exscudo Exchange, Exscudo Wallet, Charts, Trading terminals, Exscudo debit cards, Exscudo merchant platform, Channels protected messenger.