Restoring degraded coastal ecosystems produces economic returns above and beyond short-term job creation and economic stimulus.

Increasing ocean temperatures will erase mangrove restoration gains expected to occur due to economic development and ...

A Perspective proposes a pathway to improvements in sustainability of marine ecosystems and resources in China. Based on environmental accounting used in China's terrestrial ecosystems, the ...

The Sargasso Sea ecosystem generates a variety of goods and services that benefit people. These goods and services, often referred to as ecosystem services, provide some outputs that are directly ...

Paper shares innovative natural capital accounting approach to valuing the benefits of ecosystems in Colombia's Upper Sin Basin to key economic sectors.

1. Quantification of ecosystem services (ES) is an important step in operationalizing the concept for management and decision-making. With the exponential increase in ES research, ES have become a ...

The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting: Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) constitutes an integrated and comprehensive statistical framework for organizing data about habitats and landscapes, ...

Marine biodiversity, the variety of life in the ocean and seas, is a critical aspect of all three pillars of sustainable development—economic, social and environmental—supporting the healthy ...

The Economic Case for Nature report highlights close link between economic development and the state of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Current feature story explains how the report busts four ...