David J. Abson

TL;DR: It is argued that many sustainability interventions target highly tangible, but essentially weak, leverage points (i.e. using interventions that are easy, but have limited potential for transformational change), and there is an urgent need to focus on less obvious but potentially far more powerful areas of intervention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use spatially explicit models in conjunction with valuation methods to estimate comparable economic values for ecosystem services, taking account of climate change impacts, and show that highly significant value increases can be obtained from targeted planning by incorporating all potential ecosystem services and their values.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a semiquantitative review of publications explicitly dealing with cultural ecosystem services and identified five groups of publications: conceptual focus, conceptual focus deals with theoretical issues; Group 2, descriptive reviews, consists mostly of desktop studies; Group 3, localized outcomes, deals with case studies coming from different disciplines; Group 4, social and participatory, deals mainly with assessing preferences and perceptions; and Group 5, economic assessments, provides economic valuations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the growth and scientific impact of transdisciplinary sustainability research, the methods used and how three key characteristics of transdisciplinarity research (process phases, knowledge types and the intensity of involvement of practitioners) are implemented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework has been proposed that distinguishes between the integration (land sharing) and separation (land sparing) of conservation and production to address the challenges of biodiversity conservation and commodity production.