| As noted, most of these ecosystem services go unaccounted for in conventional economic decision making. |
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| It also raises some key questions regarding the desirability and feasibility of markets for ecosystem services. |
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| Within this narrow definition of poverty, the value of nature and the role natural resources and ecosystem services play is difficult to deduce. |
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| In other words, the flow of most ecosystem services is increasing at the same time as the total stock is decreasing. |
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| This will be assessed by providing the baseline information on the state of ecosystems and their capacity to supply ecosystem services. |
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| All of these technologies require power. You're substituting for the ecosystem services that are enjoyed by a net pen. |
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| Is it possible to directly measure the physical state or condition of the many ecosystem services we have identified? |
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| The payment for ecosystem services mechanism was seen as a way to address escalating conflicts over water use. |
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| Mainstreaming so-far unreflected ecosystem services and biodiversity benefits for the corporate and public sector is a later. |
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| Parties generally welcomed consideration of the role of forests in providing ecosystem services and the importance of forests in adaptation. |
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| For instance, not placing a value on ecosystem services has become an economic obstacle to a transition towards sustainability. |
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| Governments can also start by securing water and land rights and introducing payment for ecosystem services, targeting the poor. |
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| Functional ecological networks need to be maintained and restored to provide the many ecosystem services that biodiversity has to offer. |
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| Unfortunately, many of these ecosystem services are difficult to measure and place a value on. |
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| Delegates debated the Resolution's relevance to CBD programmes of work and whether to invite FAO to study the valuation of ecosystem services provided by rice paddies. |
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| A world where technoscience seeks to deliver ecosystem services through synthetic processes is not only science fiction, but a dystopia where humane life would be impossible. |
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| The recently released Millennium Ecosystem Assessment chillingly concludes that, unless we take action to mitigate the decline in ecosystem services, the costs to society will be substantial. |
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| Based on information analysed for this pilot study, potential degradation in Argentina's dryland ecosystem services should be examined more closely in the Dry Pampas and Patagonia. |
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| Payments for ecosystem services look to me like the prelude to the greatest privatisation since Rousseau's encloser first made an exclusive claim to the land. |
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| Figures 3.5 and 3.6 illustrate the multi-scale dimension of ecosystem services and thus the need to account for the spatial pattern in their production and use. |
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| The current work plan also includes activities on ecosystem services. |
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| Farmers should be supported through vocational training and advisory services to increase ecological knowledge and to enable them to provide ecosystem services bringing mutual benefits for society, nature and farmers. |
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| In addition to minimizing and mitigating adverse impacts, business can also generate revenue from conserving biodiversity and delivering ecosystem services. |
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| Advancements in environmental economics have provided tools to monetise the values of ecosystem services, even without a functional market for services. |
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| Freshwater, after all, plays an integral role in providing essential ecosystem services for civilization, such as drinking water, recreation and nutrient cycling. |
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| The intention is to minimise conflict between these different land use objectives and ecosystem services. |
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| There have been many claims about biodiversity's effect on these ecosystem services, especially provisioning and regulating services. |
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| This is an approach that verifies values and rewards the benefits of ecosystem services provided by green agricultural practices. |
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| It also originates from the subsistence economy, which involves in-kind wealth from the extraction and use of fuel wood, building materials, meat, fish, and fur products, as well as ecosystem services. |
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| Biodiversity is the engine of ecosystem services. |
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| There is a critical need to strengthen our understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem services, if we are to refine our policy response in future. |
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| Businesses have a fundamental role to play to that end, both at the level of the land they own and exploit and that of the ecosystems from which they derive ecosystem services. |
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| One delegation added that it was also necessary to determine which ecosystem services were critical and should be proactively maintained, even if their importance was currently unknown. |
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| When investments are made, the accounts rarely tally up the economic benefits that ecosystem services provide, or recognize that their conservation yields tangible economic returns. |
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| Laying the foundations for sustainable economic growth must therefore include re-investing in the environment and maintaining nature's capacity to provide crucial ecosystem services. |
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| This study is an attempt to bring to light a full account of the state and total economic value of Canada's boreal ecosystem services and natural capital assets. |
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| Climate change has severe implications for boreal biodiversity and ecosystem services. however, Canada's Boreal Forest region is better suited than most to withstand climate impacts due to its high level of intactness. |
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| Changes in the supply of ecosystem services may also increase livelihood vulnerability, particularly when livelihoods depend on common pool resources. |
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| Major drivers directly affecting progress in ameliorating the impacts of globalization on ecosystem services and human well-being include good governance, respect for basic human and labor rights, equity and transparency. |
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| Without functioning diverse ecosystems, at every scale from gene to biosphere, the ecosystem services on which both human life as well as quality of life depend, will not endure. |
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| The cerrado is also providing ecosystem services. |
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| Taking marine and coastal biodiversity as an example, a more complete approach to valuation highlights the immense and traditionally uncounted value of ecosystem services. |
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| Nature and their stewards would pay back many times that investment, through improved flow of ecosystem services and improved quality of life for all. |
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| The meeting also considered the possible positive and negative impacts of adaptation activities on biodiversity and ecosystem services and proposed some methods to avoid maladaptation. |
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| Invest the rest of it in the economy of ecosystem services such as payments for ecosystem services, and enlarged markets and price premiums for sustainable agriculture products. |
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| I asked the audience whether it's likely that Steve understood the term ecosystem services or ecological connectivity, two pieces of jargon that are presently doing the rounds. |
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| Despite the valuable ecosystem services provided by microbial communities, environmental conservation policies usually neglect microbial diversity. |
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| Twenty contributed chapters address ecosystem services related to the carbon cycle, biodiversity, the water cycle, and the land-surface energy balance. |
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| In California's Tomales Bay, native oyster presence is associated with higher species diversity of benthic invertebrates but other ecosystem services have not been studied. |
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| Collard S J, Zammit C Effects of land-use intensification on soil carbon and ecosystem services in Brigalow landscapes of southeast Queensland, Australia. |
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| Urban development of salt marshes has slowed since about 1970 owing to growing awareness by environmental groups that they provide beneficial ecosystem services. |
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| Ecosystem services are the products and services that people get from the natural environment. |
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