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A classification of landscape services to support landscape planning

Vallés-Planells, María; Galiana, Francisco; Eetvelde, Veerle Van (Resilience Alliance, 2014)

The ecosystem services approach has been proven successful to measure the contributions of nature and greenery to human well-being. Ecosystems have an effect on quality of life, but landscapes also, as a broader concept, ...
An approximation to the short term economic losses caused by the wildfires in Galicia during 2006

Barrio, Melina; Loureiro, María; Chas, María Luisa (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2011-10-14)

[EN] This study quantifies part of the short-term or immediate economic losses (excluding the non-use or passive losses) caused by the wildfires in Galicia during 2006. The background of the empirical work is based on the ...
An economic valuation of ecosystem services provided by the River Turia Natural Park (Valencia)

Estruch-Guitart, V.; Valls-Civera, A. (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-01-04)

[EN] The objective of this paper is to obtain the monetary value of ecosystem services provided by the Turia Natural Park (TNP). This paper proposes the use of the Analytic Multicriteria Valuation Method (AMUVAM) by replacing ...
Criteria and indicators for sustainable forestry under Mediterranean conditions applicable in Spain at the forest management unit scale

Valls Donderis, Pablo; Vallés-Planells, María; Galiana, Francisco (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), 2015)

[EN] Aim of study: to identify criteria and indicators (C&I) of sustainable forest management (SFM) under Mediterranean conditions. The indicators are meant to monitor changes in the provision of ecosystem services at ...
Design and management of the Metropolitan Green Belt of Aburrá Valley (Colombia)

Agudelo Patiño, Luis Carlos; Miralles García, José Luis (WITPress, 2015)

Medellín is the center of a metropolitan area that occupies part of the Aburrá Valley. Between 2012 and 2013, the National University of Colombia, local office of Medellín, conducting the study Proposal for the Development ...
Evaluación de los servicios ecosistémicos proporcionados por los humedales artificiales. Aplicación a la creación de zonas húmedas para mejorar la biodiversidad en Paterna (Valencia).

Valera Furió, Verónica (2016-10-25)

[ES] En la Tierra coexisten distintas formas de vida y elementos que se agrupan en ecosistemas que conviven entre sí estableciendo interrelaciones de competencia y de simbiosis. La supervivencia de cada uno de ellos se ...
Evaluación de servicios ecosistémicos proporcionados por los humedales artificiales. Aplicación al humedal artificial de Carrícola (Valencia).

Cruz Vicente, Blanca de la (2015-09-14)

[EN] Humans are maintained and nurtured his life thanks to the functions and processes occurring within ecosystems they live. These essential conditions and processes are called ecosystem services. Wetlands, for their ...
Evaluating the Functionality of Agricultural Systems: Social Preferences for multifunctional peri-urban agriculture. The Huerta de Valencia as case study.

Marqués Pérez, Inmaculada; Segura García del Río, Baldomero; Maroto Álvarez, Mª Concepción (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), 2014-12)

The debate on the multifunctionality of agriculture and its connections with territorial policies are the basis of the most appropriate approach to legitimize public interventions in the agricultural sector. The main ...
Groundwater dependent ecosystems. Part II. Ecosystem services and management in Europe under risk of climate change and land use intensification

Klöve, Björn; Allan, Andrew; Bertrand, Guillaume; Druzynska, Elzbieta; Ertürk, Ali; Goldscheider, Nico; Henry, Sarah; Karakaya, Nusret; Karjalainen, Timo P.; Koundouri, Phoebe; Kupfersberger, Hans; Kvaerner, Jens; Lundberg, Angela; Muotka, Timo; Preda, Elena; Pulido-Velazquez, M.; Schipper, Peter (Elsevier, 2011)

Groundwater in sufficient amounts and of suitable quality is essential for potable water supplies, crop irrigation and healthy habitats for plant and animal biocenoses. The groundwater resource is currently under severe ...
Improved modelling of the freshwater provisioning ecosystem service in water scarce river basins

Momblanch Benavent, Andrea; Andreu Álvarez, Joaquín; Paredes Arquiola, Javier (Elsevier, 2017)

[EN] Freshwater provisioning by the landscape contributes to human well-being through water use for drinking, irrigation and other purposes. The assessment of this ecosystem service involves the quantification of water ...
Scientific instruments for climate change adaptation: estimating and optimizing the efficiency of ecosystem service provision

Villa, Ferdinando; Bagstad, Ken; Johnson, Gary; Voigt, Brian (2011-10-31)

[EN] Adaptation to the consequences of climate change can depend on efficient use of ecosys tem services (ES), i.e. a better use of natural services through management of the way in which they are delivered to society. ...
Servicios ecosistémicos de la infraestructura verde: cuantificación y estimación económica del almacenamiento de carbono y flujos de agua en un proyecto piloto en Benicalap.

Palmero Barrachina, Jorge (2019-09-05)

[ES] Cada vez son más las ciudades que presentan problemas relacionados con la meteorología, como inundaciones o estrés por calor, con proyecciones que indican que estos problemas aumentarán debido a su continuo desarrollo ...
Valoración económica de los servicios ecosistémicos proporcionados por un ecosistema costero-marítimo aplicando la metodología Amuvan: caso implementación costa de la Safor. Comunidad valenciana

Gómez Aguayo, Ana María (2017-10-27)

Marine ecosystems provide a varied flow of essential services for human well-being. The value given to these ecosystems only reflects the value of goods and services that pass through the market, and does not consider the ...