TY - JOUR AB - The ecosystem services (EcoS) concept is being used increasingly to attach values to natural systems and the multiple benefits they provide to human societies. Ecosystem processes or functions only become EcoS if they are shown to have social and/or economic value. This should assure an explicit connection between the natural and social sciences, but EcoS approaches have been criticized for retaining little natural science. Preserving the natural, ecological science context within EcoS research is challenging because the multiple disciplines involved have very different traditions and vocabularies (common-language challenge) and span many organizational levels and temporal and spatial scales (scale challenge) that define the relevant interacting entities (interaction challenge). We propose a network-based approach to transcend these discipline challenges and place the natural science context at the heart of EcoS research. AU - Gill,RJ AU - Woodward,G DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.003 EP - 115 PY - 2016/// SN - 0169-5347 SP - 105 TI - Networking our way to better ecosystem service provision T2 - Trends in Ecology & Evolution UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.003 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/28803 VL - 31 ER -
Transition to Zero Pollution is a flagship initiative of the Imperial's Academic Strategy, with a vision to realise a sustainable zero pollution future. The initiative brings researchers from different disciplines together to take a systems approach to tackling pollution in all its forms.