Recreational opportunities and amenities are important human-use services generated by urban open spaces. However, empirical evidences on the magnitude of monetary values of these services are hardly…

Highlights • Farmers would rather receive compensation for soil and water conservation works than biodiversity. • Significant costs can be shared by farmers for forest conservation. • Investments in…

Although there is growing recognition that that extreme weather events pose significant challenges to Central American agriculture, little is known about what factors influence farmers' implementation...

Implications for Participatory Forest Management and Payments to Communities for Ecosystem Services Communities living near Kenya’s forests place a monetary value on conservation. Mountain forests are…

Small-scale agriculture is one of the fundamental economic sectors in Chile. An increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events due to climate change suggest a higher weather risk for the…

Highlights A new spatial pattern of soil organic carbon and soil pH for the cocoa districts and agroecological zones of Ghana. Unsuitably low cocoa soil organic and strong acidity. A loss of soil…

Forest ecosystem services are critical for human well-being as well as the functioning and growth of economies. However, despite the growing demand for these services, they are hardly given due…

ABSTRACT Although subsistence poaching is a large threat to wildlife conservation in Southern Africa, this behavior is seldom researched. Our understanding of individual and community-level factors…

Abstract Like the rest of the world, African countries are reeling from the health, economic and social effects of COVID-19. The continent’s governments have responded by imposing rigorous lockdowns…

In this study, application of risk assessment was the basis for the selection of an optimum treatment option for the potential bioremediation of a hydrocarbon polluted environment. This approach was…