Ecosystem services valuation comprises a suite of economic, biophysical, and integrated assessment methods used to quantify and monetize the benefits humans derive from ecosystems, such as provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services. Methodological approaches include market-based valuation (e.g., pricing of timber or fish), revealed-preference methods (e.g., travel cost, hedonic pricing), stated-preference techniques (e.g., contingent valuation, choice experiments), and cost-based methods (e.g., replacement, avoidance, restoration costs). These methods often integrate ecological production functions, spatial modeling, and scenario analysis to link ecological change to human welfare, supporting cost–benefit analysis, natural capital accounting, and policy impact assessments.
The adoption of management techniques that reduce the impact of timber harvesting can promote the recovery of tropical forests, such as the Amazon, and store carbon in the long term while maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem ...
Environment
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Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors wishing to offset their impact on nature—could be an effective component of the emerging market ...
Environment
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Funding sustained, effective management of marine protected areas is one of ocean conservation's most stubborn problems. Now, a new study from researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography links fish recovery ...
Ecology
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There is a long history of the mechanical thinning of forests in standard forestry operations. Thinning typically involves removing some 30–50% of the standing volume of trees with commercially valued logs removed via tracked ...
Ecology
Feb 25, 2026
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La Trobe University researchers have developed a new way to measure and report the environmental performance of farms in a move that could pave the way for future "sustainability ratings" on consumer food and fiber products. ...
Ecology
Feb 18, 2026
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Tropical forests help to generate vast amounts of rainfall each year, adding weight to arguments for protecting them as water and climate pressures increase, say researchers. A new study led by the University of Leeds has ...
Earth Sciences
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As carbon emissions continue to be pumped into the atmosphere at record levels, it will be critical to recapture and sequester as much of these warming gases as possible. While technological approaches face many barriers ...
Ecology
Feb 9, 2026
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For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Program (UNEP) report released today. It calls for a major shift ...
Environment
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A study led by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Rhode Island (URI) provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the economic damage caused by recurring sargassum ...
Plants & Animals
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The idea began in California's Sierra Nevada, a towering spine of rock and ice where rising temperatures and the decline of snowpack are transforming ecosystems, sometimes with catastrophic consequences for wildlife.
Environment
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