Reducing risks by transforming landscapes: Cross-scale effects of land-use changes on ecosystem services.

ABSTRACT: Globally, anthropogenic environmental change is exacerbating the already vulnerable conditions of many people and ecosystems. In order to obtain food, water, raw materials and shelter, rural people modify forests and other ecosystems, affecting the supply of ecosystem services that contribute to livelihoods and well-being. Despite widespread awareness of the nature and extent of multiple impacts of land-use changes, there remains limited understanding of how these impacts affect trade-offs among ecosystem services and their beneficiaries across spatial scales. We assessed how rural communities in two forested landscapes in Indonesia have changed land uses over the last 20 years to adapt their livelihoods that were at risk from multiple hazards. We estimated the impact of these adaptation s

SUBMITTER: Fedele G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5916864 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature