659 datasets found

Harnessing advances in ‘Big Data’ biodiversity informatics and e-research infrastructure to enable a deeper understanding of biodiversity evolution and dynamics in a rapidly...

Presenting and comparing three alternative scenario strategies that IPBES could use, and suggesting a bottom-up, cross-scale scenario strategy to improve the policy relevance of...

A review on the transition of EU policies that led to the adoption of the WFD, to identify the reasons why the Directive was introduced and what it is trying to deliver, and to...

Potential processes and mechanisms for coordinating the activities and capacities of actors that are involved on different levels and in different sectors of flood risk...

Discussing the potential value of integrating the ecosystem services (ESS) concept for improving the consideration of environmental benefits and values during framing and...

A review of existing methods that address integrative assessment and innovative monitoring needs to evaluate the health status of marine ecosystems.

A specific, quantitative interpretation of the concepts of GES and sustainable use in terms of indicators and associated targets (MSFD), by sharply distinguishing between...

A new type of indicator that explicitly reflects an ecosystem’s capacity to provide benefits to society, ensuring that ecosystem service assessments measure outcomes that are...

Implementation challenges faced by five European RBDs during the development and implementation of the 1st River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) of 2009 (WFD implementation).

An analytical framework for assessing opportunities and barriers of co-governance, defined as collaborative societal involvement in the functions of government, and its...

A stakeholder-based assessment of barriers to the adoption of climate adaptation options for irrigation in the Guadiana basin, one of Spain’s most climate-vulnerable basins.

The first record of plastic contamination, in the 5 mm–250 μm size range, of Irish continental shelf sediments.

A result-based payment scheme for nonpoint-source pollution abatement from arable land (case study in southern Sweden).

A case study approach assessing management interventions to illustrate how collective strategic decisions can be made to manage a valued ecosystem situated within an urban matrix.

An operational framework that builds on existing work done by the European Commission’s MAES Working Group and provides a clear nine-step approach including the identification...

Identifying the effects that small magnitude frequently occurring floods and extreme floods have on ten aquatic ecosystem services through a systematic literature review.

A synthesis of existing knowledge and a conceptual framework for analysing interregional ecosystem service flows, the characteristics of sending and receiving socio-ecological...

This dataset contains Ecosystem Services (ES), presented as spatially explicit indicators, representing the capacity of provision in the CS2. Specifically we offer 15 different...

A dataset of marine biodiversity-ecosystem service linkages archived at http://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/496 and associated to the original publication at...

This dataset contains the frequency of selection of different planning units after 100 runs in Marxan with Zones (Watts et al., 2009) to identify two different Green and Blue...