Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 9-19, March 2023. Ecosystem services has been widely explored in various theoretical or practical studies since its emergence more than 20 years ago. The two big issues in the past golden era of ecosystem services research were: ecosystem services valuing and ecosystem services trade-offs. We analyzed advantages of ecosystem services in promoting the attention that government and the public pay to the natural capital and the management of ecosystem services, together with summarizing the shortcomings. It was found ..read more

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Ahead of Print. Ecosystem service flow refers to the whole process of ecosystem service production, delivery and utilization, which is closely related to social-ecological processes. However, quantifying the entire ecosystem service flow process remains challenging, placing limits on the management of social-ecological systems to improve human wellbeing. Here, we explored the relationship between social-ecological processes (e.g., product transfer, matter cycling, energy flow and information delivery) and the spatial flow of ecosystem ser ..read more

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Ahead of Print. Ecology research has continuously expanded over the last several decades, and is recently experiencing rapid development at the macroscale. Both the number and scope of macro-ecological studies have increased significantly since the beginning of the 21st century. There is a need to reveal the recent hotspotsand challenges of macroscale ecology research, and the macro-ecology and macrosystems ecology were proposed as a way to do this, with global and regional sustainability recognized. Through scientometric analyses, we hig ..read more

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Ahead of Print. Driven by intensive globalization and technological development, shifting from place-based research on ecosystem services to an understanding of multiple human and natural interactions within the focal system, as well as between adjacent and distant systems, is becoming an urgent necessity. An integrated framework of metacoupling (socio-economic-environmental interactions within and across borders) is proposed to address this shift. Here, I have demonstrated the utility of the metacoupling framework, which includes intraco ..read more

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Ahead of Print. China is developing a new strategy to achieve harmony between nature and economic growth. In order to ensure the conformity of policies and actions in this new strategy, Chinese cities need tools to evaluate the change in nature and its contribution to human well-being. The rapid development of theories and methodologies in the valuation of nature provides many options. The potential of three frameworks — urban ecosystem services, nature’s contribution to people, and gross ecosystem products — for meeting Chinese cities’ n ..read more

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Ahead of Print. Ecosystem services are the basis for human survival and development and act as a bridge between nature and society. In recent years, ecosystem service flows have become the focus and primary challenge of ecosystem service research, with development in research efforts toward quantification and spatialization. This review explains the necessity of ecosystem service flows, discusses the progress of research in this area over the last decade, and compares the theoretical and representative research approaches from two concept ..read more

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Ahead of Print. Evaluations of ecosystem services values (ESV) and ecological risk (ER) are crucially important for sustainable ecosystem management and ecological security. While numerous studies have been conducted for ecosystem service values and ecological risk assessment, respectively, few studies have investigated their linkage and correlation, especially from a social-ecological perspective. Additionally, the correlation is inconsistent, varying among studies conducted at different spatial scales, which makes it difficult to apply ..read more

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Ahead of Print. The supply and demand of ecosystem services is a popular research topic, however, studies on ecosystem services related to hydropower are rare. We selected hydropower stations in the Lhasa River of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the beneficiaries of hydropower development. We then identified three ecosystem services. We assessed the supply of ecosystem services and the demand of hydropower for them. Finally, we discussed the relationship between hydropower and watersheds.The results demonstrated the following: (1) Water yiel ..read more

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Ahead of Print. Multi-objective ecological restoration has the potential ability to provide social-ecological benefits according to different demands, contributing to sustainable development. However, the current multi-objective ecological restoration strategies are mostly dependent on supply-based benefits assessment for ecosystem services enhancement and tend to ignore the priority in different social-ecological systems. We discuss three questions, including why it is important to distinguish primary and secondary weights of ecological ..read more

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