Ecosystemic Services – Natural Capital

Featured image credit: Product by the ProPark Foundation / ValueEcoServ project, source: ProPark ValueEcoServ is a Romanian project focused on evaluating ecosystem services […]

Featured image credit: Product by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment / Island Press, source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: A Framework for

Featured image credit: Product by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment / World Resources Institute, source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) was

Featured image credit: Product by the Better Life Horizon project, source: Better Life Horizon Ecosystem disservices are the negative effects that natural systems

Featured image credit: Product by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Climate Hubs, source: USDA Climate Hubs – Ecosystem Services Ecosystem services are the

A smaller-scale initiative, the Sub-Global Assessment (SGA) Network, coordinated by UNEP-WCMC, is dedicated to organizations or individuals interested in it,

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), similar to the “polluter pays” concept which led to carbon credits, is a new scheme

The Ecosystem Services Partnership is an international network of professionals and organizations created with the goal of increasing the scientific

Through the MAES mapping effort, a series of reports (five until January 2018) and other supporting framework documents have been

For Romania, the European MAES portal presents the project “Demonstration and promotion of natural values in support of decision-making in

The global assessment IPBES (The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) is the new assessment provided through the

SEEA (System of Environmental-Economic Accounting) is a project coordinated by the UN Division of Statistics with the goal of providing

MAES emerged as a harmonization tool in the approach to ecosystems and the evaluation of the services provided by them,

The International James Hutton Institute describes: “PES schemes attract increasing interest as mechanisms for improving conservation and achieving sustainable development

WAVES (Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services) is an initiative of the World Bank. WAVES is a global

The Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) is a process of classifying ecosystem services from the perspective of easier

The EUNIS Habitat Classification is a pan-European global system that facilitates the description and harmonized collection of data across the

The term “ecosystem services” was popularized at the beginning of the 21st century within the first major global project to

The Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) within the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been building since 1948,