Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being for Environmental Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Ecosystem services are all kinds of tangible and intangible benefits obtained by human beings from ecosystem. Human activities, especially land use change, also affect and change the provision of ecosystem services. The reduction, degradation and even loss of ecosystem services will have a serious impact on human well-being and directly threaten regional and even global ecological security. Ecosystem can provide people with a variety of ecosystem services, which is an important guarantee for human well-being.

Due to the diversity of ecosystem services, the imbalance of spatial distribution and the selectivity of human use, the relationship between ecosystem services has changed under the action of human activities and natural factors. The relationship between different ecosystem services is complex and interacts with each other, which is often manifested as trade-off relationship and synergistic relationship. Identifying the main types of regional ecosystem services, analyzing the trade-off synergistic relationships among ecosystem services and exploring the driving mechanisms are important for coordinating eco-environmental protection, promoting human well-being for environmental sustainability.

This Topical Collection of Sustainability provides a platform for researchers on which to publish high-quality original research papers and reviews that focus on ecosystem services, ecosystem services assessment, ecosystem service relationships, tradeoffs and synergy mechanisms, relationship-driven mechanism and human well-being for environmental sustainability. It is important to analyze spatiotemporal characteristics, interrelationships and driving mechanisms of ecosystem services, which contributes to the sustainable development of environment.

Prof. Dr. Erfu Dai
Dr. Chunsheng Wu
Collection Editors

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