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South American Camelids: their values and contributions to people
(Springer Tokyo, 2020-10-26)
South American Camelids (SACs) make several material and non-material contributions to people and are a key component of the Andean biocultural heritage. From the perspective of the IPBES’ Conceptual Framework, SACs ...
Global trends in nature's contributions to people
(National Academy of Sciences, 2020-12)
Declining biodiversity and ecosystem functions put many of nature’s contributions to people at risk. We review and synthesize the scientific literature to assess 50-y global trends across a broad range of nature’s ...
An evaluation of local, national and international perceptions of benefits and threats to nature in Tierra del Fuego National Park (Patagonia, Argentina)
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-09)
Environmental scientists and managers increasingly recognize that socio-cultural evaluations expand the understanding of human-nature relationships. Here, user groups´ perceptions of the benefits from and threats to nature ...
Land use change and commodity frontiers: Perceptions, values, and conflicts over the appropriation of nature
(University of California Press, 2020-12)
Argentina is experiencing an expansion of soya and maize cultivation that is pushing the agricultural frontier over areas formerly occupied by native Chaco forest. Subsistance farmers use this dry forest to raise goats and ...
Compliance to Brazil's Forest Code will not protect biodiversity and ecosystem services
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrasilIGC - DEPARTAMENTO DE CARTOGRAFIAUFMG, 2017-12-28)
(Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, “natures” and the water–energy–food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil
(2019-06-01)
This paper critically analyses pervasive contemporary discourses that call for children and young people to be “reconnected” with nature and natural resources. Simultaneously, it reflects on emerging forms of nexus thinking ...
Ecosystem services provided by armadillos
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2020-01)
Awareness of the natural ecological processes provided by organisms that benefit human well‐being has significantly progressed towards the goal of making conservation a mainstream value. Identifying different services and ...
A Rosetta Stone For Nature's Benefits To People
(PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCESAN FRANCISCO, 2015)