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Over the past handful of years, tools and approaches have been developed to increase the consideration of ecosystem services (benefits from nature) in the cleanup of contaminated sites. This webinar will update earlier introductions to ecosystem services with recent advances for ...

Tidal wetlands provide many valued amenities, also known as ecosystem services. However, many wetlands have been destroyed, degraded, or are at risk of damage due to development, pollution, and changing environments. National Estuary Programs, States, EPA and other Federal agenci...

In the SHC 9.2 Output, SHC will report on applications of ecosystem services tools and approaches in support of community-based Remediation to Restoration to Revitalization (R2R2R) related decision making. This will include: 1) collaborative case study assessments of the utility ...

The US EPA is conducting a long-term research program on the effects of human actions on ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are defined in this program as “the products of ecological functions or processes that directly or indirectly contribute to human well-being.” Modelin...

The Tampa Bay Ecosystem Services Demonstration Project models the impact of human development and natural stressors on the economic, aesthetic and cultural value of local ecosystems. By linking ecological structures, functions, and condition to the ecosystem services valued by h...

Ecosystems provide multiple societal benefits from the production of nature-based goods and services. Many ecosystem services have been linked to a range of positive health outcomes through the buffering of pollutants and natural hazards and the promotion of healthy behaviors. A ...

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment produced a compelling synthesis of the global value of ecosystem services to human well-being. While the MEA was a critical, initial step to demonstrate the potential for assessing global trends in ecosystem services, it is important to note th...

Natural ecosystems provide services to humans that make life possible. Life, as well as the economy, is dependent upon these ecosystem goods and services (EGS). These services also contribute to a &ldquo;good&rdquo; or &ldquo;quality life&rdquo; by influencing the well-being of i...

A significant amount of science falls into the category of &ldquo;data rich, but information poor&rdquo;, with science produced without sufficient consideration of the use or decision context and without processes in place to translate information for specific environmental-decis...

Environmental problems are ubiquitous and typically wicked. They are persistent, complex, result from multiple conflicting causes, have no clear end, and involve moral choices forcing winners and losers. Top-down, command-and-control management approaches have proven ineffective ...

There is an increasing understanding that top-down regulatory and technology driven responses are not sufficient to address current and emerging environmental challenges such as climate change, sustainable communities, and environmental justice. The vast majority of environmenta...

Significant ecosystem services derive from the coastal wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes even though they have undergone substantial declines since European settlement. Basin-wide, two-thirds of the original coastal wetlands have been lost, and the remaining 126,000 ha of US...

State-level managers and restoration advocates have expressed a desire for approaches that address wetlands services and benefits for two purposes: to demonstrate the benefits of money budgeted for restoration, and to compare proposals when awarding restoration funds for specific...

Clean air and water, ample food, renewable fuels, productive fisheries, diverse ecosystems, resilient coasts and watersheds: these are some of the benefits that depend on sustainable nitrogen use and management. Thus, in our vision of the future, uses of reactive nitrogen are suf...

Managing urban green space as part of an ongoing social-ecological transformationposes novel governance issues, particularly in post-industrial settings. Urban green spaces operate as small-scale nodes in larger networks of ecological reserves that provide and maintain key ecosys...

Social-ecological systems are characterized by scale specific structure, alternative regimes and high uncertainty. This confounds the management of social-ecological systems by implicitly forcing tradeoffs between multiple ecosystem services within and across scales. Adaptive man...

Governments, tribal leaders and citizens of the deserts in North America are facing unprecedented pressures from population growth and climate change. The dominant environmental and economic issue is to ensure that people have access to clean water and sanitation while vital ecos...

Ecosystem services are benefits to human populations derived from natural capitals like soil. When a soil is urbanized during infrastructure and superstructure development, the related processes modulate the state and quality of natural resources, along with the form and function...

A focus for resource management, conservation planning, and environmental decision analysis has been mapping and quantifying biodiversity and ecosystem services. The challenge has been to integrate ecology with economics to better understand the effects of human policies and acti...

Ecosystem services (ES) represent a way to represent and quantify multiple uses, values as well as connectivity between ecosystem processes and human well-being. Ecosystem-based fisheries management approaches may seek to quantify expected trade-offs in ecosystem services due to ...

Along the trajectory of restoration implementation from planning to post-restoration monitoring, resource managers have identified a need for information and approaches to help inspire the public to act, evaluate alternatives, gain public support, monitor progress, and communicat...

One of the challenges for current restoration efforts is to adequately evaluate and communicate the values of restoration to the public. An ecosystem services approach helps translate environmental changes into human benefits by putting restoration into relatable value terminolo...

Nature-based solutions and best management practices that support the reduction of nitrate pollution from agricultural tile drains to downstream receiving waters can provide economic and habitat benefits as well as a number of other ecosystem goods and services. These systems inc...

Ecosystem goods and services produce the many life-sustaining benefits we receive from nature: clean air and water, fertile soil for crop production, pollination, and flood control. These ecosystem services are important to environmental and human health and to well-being; yet th...

Stressors such as climate change, pollution, and development affect ecosystem condition and consequently they affect the goods and services that people use, appreciate, or enjoy that are produced by those ecosystems (i.e., ecosystem services, ES). Anticipating how ES are affected...