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 Volume 6, Issue 12 (December 2019), Pages: 18-26

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Understanding ecosystem services: A shift in modern environmentalism

 Author(s): Azlan Abas 1, *, Azmi Aziz 1, Zurinah Tahir 1, Al-Amril Othman 1, Carolyn Melissa Payus 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Faculty of Social Science and Humanity, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Malaysia
 2Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, Malaysian Sabah University (UMS), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5614-6506

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2019.12.003

 Abstract:

Ecosystem services have rarely been discussed in the same framework with modern environmentalism. Therefore, understanding the interactions and relationship between ecosystem services and modern environmentalism was little to be known. We conducted a review of studies that aims to understand the relationship and interaction between ecosystem services and modern environmentalism to summarize research from this emerging topic and to identify the patterns for a new shift of these two concepts from different case studies. Our review found that ecosystem services and modern environmentalism can be described in the same particular framework. Therefore, this research also proposed an ecosystem services-modern environmentalism framework to help scientists in this area to have a better understanding of how these two concepts could be connected. In this paper, we also discussed and analyzed how the connection between ecosystem services and modern environmentalism in ASEAN can be the reason for numerous multi-lateral an environmental agreement such as the Paris Agreement. 

 © 2019 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: ASEAN, Ecosystem services, Environmental management, Modern environmentalism, Sustainable development goals

 Article History: Received 2 May 2019, Received in revised form 20 September 2019, Accepted 24 September 2019

 Acknowledgement:

This research was conducted with funding from the research grant SK-2017-002 of the CRIM, UKM.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Conflict of interest:  The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Abas A, Aziz A, and Tahir Z et al. (2019). Understanding ecosystem services: A shift in modern environmentalism. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 6(12): 18-26

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