Tudor Racoviceanu

• PhD
• Researcher at University of Bucharest

Ecosystem services (ES) assessments are rarely integrated into decision-making processes, with uncertainties often cited as a major barrier. While various uncertainties, such as modelling and data uncertainties, are inherent in ES assessments, their role in uptake of ES assessment results in decision-making remains unclear. We conducted a semi-syst...

The concept of ecosystem services and their valuation has gained significant attention in recent years due to the profound interdependence and interconnectedness between humans and ecosystems. As several studies on valuation of forest ecosystem services have stressed the human-nature interactions lately, in the research study area, the environmenta...

Anthropogenic landscape transformations have promoted the provision of ecosystem services (ES) at the expense of other ES, biodiversity, and human well-being. We analysed the transformation portfolios of ES provisions, the costs of transformation, and the rivalry between ES categories and biodiversity conservation during the pre-communist and commu...

The global lockdown to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic health risks has altered human interactions with nature. Here, we report immediate impacts of changes in human activities on wildlife and environmental threats during the early lockdown months of 2020, based on 877 qualitative reports and 332 quantitative assessments from 89 different studies. Hundr...

Current development model of socio-economic systems is based on the exploitation of natural resources provided by ecological systems. In the last century due to the industrial revolution, population growth and resource scarcity, an increasing anthropogenic pressure on the natural capitals bio-structure has been observed. The increasing need for nat...

The natural river floodplains support one of the most heterogeneous and species-rich landscapes. Wetlands are especially important for colonial waterbirds species providing ideal feeding, nesting and resting habitats for many species. Lower Danube River floodplain has changed dramatically in the past century as a result of hydro-technical works, in...

The development of socio-economic systems is dependent on natural resources. Resources are provided by natural and semi-natural ecosystems and often affected by human activities. The current work is located in Brăila Islands, a long term socio-ecological research site of approximately 2600 km2, using the approach of assessing landscape potential to...