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Mapping emergent costs and benefits of ecosystem service flows in Senegal’s small-scale fishery supply chain Open

Charis Chalkiadakis, John Virdin, M.J. Kraak, Evangelia G. Drakou · 2025

Interoperability for ecosystem service assessments: Why, how, who, and for whom? Open

Kenneth J. Bagstad, Stefano Balbi, Greta Adamo, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Flavio Affinito , et al. · 2025

Editorial: Coastal rewilding as a nature-based solution Open

Cintia O. Quintana, Vona Méléder, Ana I. Sousa, Evangelia G. Drakou, Daphne van der Wal , et al. · 2025

Senegal's Small-Scale Fishery and the Flow Dynamics Across the Value Chain: Whose Values, Whose Benefits? Open

Charis Chalkiadakis, John Virdin, M.J. Kraak, Evangelia G. Drakou · 2025

Big Data for Behavioral Economics: Analyzing Sustainable Consumption Through a Social Lens Open

Nga Hong Nguyen, Markus A. Meyer, M.J. Kraak, Evangelia G. Drakou · 2024

Enhancing Small-Medium IsLands resilience by securing the sustainability of Ecosystem Services: the SMILES Cost Action Open

Ioannis Ν. Vogiatzakis, Mario V. Balzan, Evangelia G. Drakou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Emilio Padoa‐Schioppa , et al. · 2023

European islands are hotspots of biological and cultural diversity, which, compared to mainland, are more vulnerable to climate change, tourism development, uncontrolled land-use changes and the consequences of financial crisis. These driv…

Science on ecosystems and people to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Open

Matthias Schröter, Marta Berbés‐Blázquez, Christian Albert, Rosemary Hill, Torsten Krause , et al. · 2023

In December 2022, members of the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) (https://www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/) to guide international biodiversity conservation efforts until 2030…

Evaluating natural medicinal resources and their exposure to global change Open

Spyros Theodoridis, Evangelia G. Drakou, Thomas Hickler, Marco Thines, David Nogués‐Bravo · 2023

Medicinal plants and their bioactive molecules are integral components of nature and have supported the health of human societies for millennia. However, the prevailing view of medicinal biodiversity solely as an ecosystem-decoupled natura…

Modelling and Mapping Coastal Protection: Adapting an EU-Wide Model to National Specificities Open

Mahbub Ul Hasan, Evangelia G. Drakou, Efthimios Karymbalis, Alexandra Tragaki, Christina Gallousi , et al. · 2022

We explore the requirements for adapting coastal protection EU-wide indicators nationally. The aim of this research is threefold: (a) to map coastal protection at the national level; (b) to assess the congruence between the regional and na…

Ecosystem service flows: A systematic literature review of marine systems Open

Charis Chalkiadakis, Evangelia G. Drakou, M.J. Kraak · 2022

Understanding and quantifying ES flows is essential for the sustainable management of social-ecological systems, as it directly captures the human-nature interactions within the system and not solely its individual elements. Especially in …

Farmers intention to adopt sustainable agriculture hinges on climate awareness: The case of Vietnamese coffee Open

Nga Hong Nguyen, Evangelia G. Drakou · 2021

Adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAP) is essential for economic, social and environmental adaptation to climate change. For cash crops like Vietnamese coffee, this is even more relevant, since the country experiences climate…

Modelling how people and nature are intertwined Open

Louise Willemen, Evangelia G. Drakou, Nina Schwarz · 2019

The state of nature is driving human activities, while human activities change the state of nature. These social‐ecological interactions have existed for millennia. Now in the Anthropocene ‐the acclaimed geological era in which human activ…

Designing an Ecosystem Services Ontology within GEOBON Open

Evangelia G. Drakou, Rob Lemmens, Febriani Ayuningshih · 2019

Assessing, mapping and quantifying ecosystem services is a growing priority within local, national and international policy and decision-making processes. That requires robust and scientifically sound data and information on biodiversity, …

Improving ecosystem assessments in Mediterranean social-ecological systems: a DPSIR analysis Open

Mario V. Balzan, Ana Martins Pinheiro, André Ofenhejm Mascarenhas, Alejandra Morán‐Ordóñez, Ana Ruiz‐Frau , et al. · 2019

Social-ecological systems in the Mediterranean Basin are characterised by high biodiversity and a prolonged cultural influence, leading to the co-evolution of these systems. The unique characteristics of Mediterranean social-ecological sys…

Finding the essential: Improving conservation monitoring across scales Open

Carlos A. Guerra, Linwood H. Pendleton, Evangelia G. Drakou, Vânia Proença, Ward Appeltans , et al. · 2019

Improving ecosystem assessments in Mediterranean social-ecological systems: a DPSIR analysis Open

Mario V. Balzan, Ana Martins Pinheiro, André Mascarenhas, Alejandra Morán‐Ordóñez, Ana Ruiz‐Frau , et al. · 2019

Social-ecological systems in the Mediterranean Basin are characterised by high biodiversity and a prolonged cultural influence, leading to the co-evolution of these systems. The unique characteristics of Mediterranean social-ecological sys…

Key criteria for developing ecosystem service indicators to inform decision making Open

Alexander P.E. van Oudenhoven, Matthias Schröter, Evangelia G. Drakou, Ilse R. Geijzendorffer, Sander Jacobs , et al. · 2018

Mapping the global distribution of locally-generated marine ecosystem services: The case of the West and Central Pacific Ocean tuna fisheries Open

Evangelia G. Drakou, John Virdin, Linwood Pendleton · 2018

Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems Open

Frank Müller‐Karger, Erin L. Hestir, Christiana Ade, Kevin Turpie, Dar A. Roberts , et al. · 2018

The biodiversity and high productivity of coastal terrestrial and aquatic habitats are the foundation for important benefits to human societies around the world. These globally distributed habitats need frequent and broad systematic assess…

Protecting Marine Mammals in Crowded Waters : The ECOPOTENTIAL project is using cutting-edge satellite imagery, ecological modelling and local knowledge to improve the conservation of marine mammals in the Mediterranean Sea Open

Björn Alfthan, Levi Westerveld, Evangelia G. Drakou · 2018

Practical solutions for bottlenecks in ecosystem services mapping Open

Ignacio Palomo, Louise Willemen, Evangelia G. Drakou, Benjamin Burkhard, N. D. Crossman , et al. · 2018

Ecosystem services (ES) mapping is becoming mainstream in many sustainability assessments, but its impact on real world decision-making is still limited. Robustness, end-user relevance and transparency have been identified as key attribute…

Conference Keynote Talk: Rethinking Marine Ecosystem Services Open

Evangelia G. Drakou · 2018

A multidisciplinary critical review of ecosystem services studies in Greece: approaches, shortcomings and the pathway to implementation Open

Panayotis Dimopoulos, Ioannis Kokkoris, Evangelia G. Drakou, Elena Bekri, Sinos Giokas , et al. · 2018

During the last two decades, ecosystem services (ES) research is used to inform the various steps of decision- and policy- making process, regarding environmental management, spatial planning and natural capital accounting. In the EU, this…

Positive futures for Mediterranean wetlands biodiversity and ecosystem services Open

Ilse R. Geijzendorffer, Özge Balkız, Evangelia G. Drakou, Lena Hatziiordanou, Flavio Monti , et al. · 2018

To change the current negative trend of biodiversity and related ecosystem services, the actors that are capable of changing either policies or daily management of ecosystems or protected areas need to know what their biggest challenges ar…

Use and user requirements of ecosystem service maps: Analyzing decision makers’ needs within the context of Target 2 (Action 5) of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2020 on EU, national and sub-national level. Open

Maria Ruhringer, C.P.J.M. van Elzakker, Evangelia G. Drakou · 2018

Mapping ecosystem services presents a key component of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2020. Ecosystem service maps aim to support decision- and policy-making by functioning as a bridge between science producing and decision-makers using …

Ecosystem services supply in protected mountains of Greece: setting the baseline for conservation management Open

Ioannis Kokkoris, Evangelia G. Drakou, Joachim Maes, Panayotis Dimopoulos · 2018

The mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services, an initiative under the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, sets the basis for national ecosystem assessments in EU Member States, including Greece. The highly diverse and heteroge…

Ecosystem services supply in protected mountains of Greece: setting the baseline for conservation management Open

Ioannis Kokkoris, Evangelia G. Drakou, Joachim Maes, Panayotis Dimopoulos · 2017

The mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services, an initiative under the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, sets the basis for national ecosystem assessments in EU Member States, including Greece. The highly diverse and heteroge…

Marine and coastal ecosystem services on the science–policy–practice nexus: challenges and opportunities from 11 European case studies Open

Evangelia G. Drakou, Charlène Kermagoret, Camino Liquete, Ana Ruiz‐Frau, Kremena Burkhard , et al. · 2017

We compared and contrasted 11 European case studies to identify challenges and opportunities toward the operationalization of marine and coastal ecosystem service (MCES) assessments in Europe. This work is the output of a panel convened by…

Operationalising marine and coastal ecosystem services Open

João Garcia Rodrigues, Sebastián Villasante, Evangelia G. Drakou, Charlène Kermagoret, Nicola Beaumont · 2017

The ecosystem services concept has been increasingly adopted to assess nature’s contributions to people and to understand feedbacks within social-ecological systems. Yet, to be useful in decision-m...

Editorial: Optimizing the Delivery of Multiple Ecosystem Goods and Services in Agricultural Systems Open

Maria Α. Tsiafouli, Evangelia G. Drakou, Alberto Orgiazzi, Katarina Hedlund, Karl Ritz · 2017

EDITORIAL article Front. Ecol. Evol., 15 August 2017Sec. Agroecology Volume 5 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00097

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