This work supports implementation of the Upper Tana-Nairobi Water Fund, a public-private partnership to safeguard ecosystem service provision and food security.
Agricultural landscapes safeguard ecosystem services (ES) and biodiversity upon which human well-being depends.
To safeguard forest biodiversity and ecosystem services, ownership-specific incentive schemes should be coordinated and refined.
Many governments are now offering incentive payments to private land owners to adapt their management of the land in such a way as to safeguard or enhance ecosystem service provision.
We present an approach for identifying conservation areas necessary to safeguard the provision of important ecosystem services for indigenous communities.
On islands, conservation aims to control and eradicate invasive alien species, preserve current levels of biodiversity, protect ecosystem functions and their impact on human wellbeing through the provision of ecosystem services, safeguard iconic species and implement sustainable and biodiversity-friendly farming techniques.
We argue that cities need to prioritize safeguarding of a resilient supply of ecosystem services to ensure livable, sustainable cities, especially given the dynamic nature of urban systems continually responding to global environmental change.
Anticipatory risk reduction treatments can lower the probability of large events but might also directly and adversely affect the very ecosystem services they were designed to safeguard.
As the additional requirements to operationalize biodiversity safeguards are implemented, this degradation proxy can be used in combination with biodiversity information to assess ecosystem services and risks to biodiversity, which are based on the principles of landscape ecology, which have demonstrated important relationships between habitat area, quality, with biodiversity.
