The Anthropocene
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online December 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Environmentalist Thought and Ideology (Environmental Science). 10739 words.
The Anthropocene hypothesis—that humans have impacted “the environment” but also changed the Earth’s geology—has spread widely through the sciences and humanities. This hypothesis is being...
Biodiversity Hotspots and Conservation Priorities
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online March 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Environmentalist Thought and Ideology (Environmental Science); Pollution and Threats to the Environment (Social Science). 7148 words.
The concept of biodiversity hotspots arose as a science-based framework with which to identify high-priority areas for habitat protection and conservation—often in the form of nature...
Biodiversity in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Landscapes
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online July 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Environmentalist Thought and Ideology (Environmental Science); Ecology and Conservation. 13771 words.
Although the concept of biodiversity emerged 30 years ago, patterns and processes influencing ecological diversity have been studied for more than a century. Historically, ecological...
Ecological Effects of Environmental Stressors
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online September 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Environmentalist Thought and Ideology (Environmental Science); Pollution and Threats to the Environment (Social Science). 10360 words.
Regimes of environmental stress are exceedingly complex. Particular stressors exist within continua of intensity of environmental factors. Those factors interact with each other, and their...
Economics of Low Carbon Agriculture
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online July 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Environmentalist Thought and Ideology (Environmental Science); Pollution and Threats to the Environment (Social Science); Sociology; Sustainability; Agriculture and Farming; Environmental Economics. 8703 words.
Climate change is already having a significant impact on agriculture through greater weather variability and the increasing frequency of extreme events. International policy is rightly...
Ecosystem Services
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online March 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Environmentalist Thought and Ideology (Environmental Science); Politics; Management of Land and Natural Resources (Social Science); Sustainability. 15492 words.
The concept of ecosystem services considers the usefulness of nature for human society. The economic importance of nature was described and analyzed in the 18th century, but the term ecosys...
Ecosystem Services and Human Health
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online March 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Environmentalist Thought and Ideology (Environmental Science); Pollution and Threats to the Environment (Social Science); Social Impact of Environmental Issues (Environmental Science); Sustainability. 5458 words.
Ecosystem services refer to benefits for human societies and well-being obtained from ecosystems. Research on health effects of ecosystem services have until recently mostly focused on...
Ecotourism
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
Article. Subjects: Environmentalist Thought and Ideology (Environmental Science); Management of Land and Natural Resources (Social Science). 445 words.
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The Emergence of Environment as a Security Imperative
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online May 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Environmentalist Thought and Ideology (Environmental Science); Pollution and Threats to the Environment (Social Science); Social Impact of Environmental Issues (Environmental Science); Environmental History. 12774 words.
The emergence of environment as a security imperative is something that could have been avoided. Early indications showed that if governments did not pay attention to critical environmental...
Environmental Accounting
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online February 2018 .
Article. Subjects: Environmentalist Thought and Ideology (Environmental Science); Research Methods in Life Sciences. 14176 words.
Environmental accounting is an attempt to broaden the scope of the accounting frameworks used to assess economic performance, to take stock of elements that are not recorded in public or...
