ABSTRACT. A growing interest in mapping the social value of ecosystem services (ES) is not yet methodologically aligned with what is actually being mapped. We critically examine aspects of the social ...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: valuing ecosystems on a global scale In March 2004, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) was published, comprising the first global survey of ecological services.

Climate change is altering ecosystems around the world. Those changes also come with a financial cost. In this excerpt from our partner Deutshe Welle, or DW’s, Living Planet series, The World’s Host ...

Over the past 50 years, 60 percent of all ecosystem services have declined as a direct result of the conversion of land to the production of foods, fuels and fibers. This should come as no ...

An ecosystem can be a natural wilderness area, a suburban lake or forest, or a heavily used area such as a city. The more natural an ecosystem is, the more ecosystem services it provides. These ...

The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387, 253-260 (1987). Daily, G.C. Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems. Washington, DC: Island Press ...

Ecosystem services are the goods humans obtain from nature to improve quality of life, like access to fresh water or clean air. Ecosystem services can also include factors like not living in a ...

Wetlands provide what are now termed “ecosystem services” to communities living on or near the St Johns River. Ecosystem services mean that these wetland ecosystems provide a service to the ...

A conservation photographer captures the rarely seen relationships between the animal life and trees in old growth forests : The Picture Show From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain ...