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The superior effect of nature based solutions in land management for enhancing ecosystem services

Overview of attention for article published in Science of the Total Environment, January 2018
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Title
The superior effect of nature based solutions in land management for enhancing ecosystem services
Published in
Science of the Total Environment, January 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.077
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Authors

Saskia Keesstra, Joao Nunes, Agata Novara, David Finger, David Avelar, Zahra Kalantari, Artemi Cerdà

Abstract

The rehabilitation and restoration of land is a key strategy to recover services -goods and resources- ecosystems offer to the humankind. This paper reviews key examples to understand the superior effect of nature based solutions to enhance the sustainability of catchment systems by promoting desirable soil and landscape functions. The use of concepts such as connectivity and the theory of system thinking framework allowed to review coastal and river management as a guide to evaluate other strategies to achieve sustainability. In land management NBSs are not mainstream management. Through a set of case studies: organic farming in Spain; rewilding in Slovenia; land restoration in Iceland, sediment trapping in Ethiopia and wetland construction in Sweden, we show the potential of Nature based solutions (NBSs) as a cost-effective long term solution for hydrological risks and land degradation. NBSs can be divided into two main groups of strategies: soil solutions and landscape solutions. Soil solutions aim to enhance the soil health and soil functions through which local eco-system services will be maintained or restored. Landscape solutions mainly focus on the concept of connectivity. Making the landscape less connected, facilitating less rainfall to be transformed into runoff and therefore reducing flood risk, increasing soil moisture and reducing droughts and soil erosion we can achieve the sustainability. The enhanced eco-system services directly feed into the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 1384 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 214 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 203 15%
Researcher 190 14%
Student > Bachelor 119 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 69 5%
Other 207 15%
Unknown 382 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 367 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 166 12%
Engineering 81 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 72 5%
Social Sciences 64 5%
Other 177 13%
Unknown 457 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2022.
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#1,424,224
of 24,001,212 outputs
Outputs from Science of the Total Environment
#1,789
of 27,074 outputs
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#34,088
of 449,340 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science of the Total Environment
#48
of 754 outputs
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