Spatial planning for a green economy: National-level hydrologic ecosystem services priority areas for Gabon.

ABSTRACT: Rapidly developing countries contain both the bulk of intact natural areas and biodiversity, and the greatest untapped natural resource stocks, placing them at the forefront of "green" economic development opportunities. However, most lack scientific tools to create development plans that account for biodiversity and ecosystem services, diminishing the real potential to be sustainable. Existing methods focus on biodiversity and carbon priority areas across large geographies (e.g., countries, states/provinces), leaving out essential services associated with water supplies, among others. These hydrologic ecosystem services (HES) are especially absent from methods applied at large geographies and in data-limited contexts. Here, we present a novel, spatially explicit, and relatively simple met

SUBMITTER: Goldstein JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5464629 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature