intermediate link between the processes and phenomena in the environment and human well-being. The main groups of the ecosystem …Understanding that the environment is more than the resource base of human economic activities was a watershed in the … awareness of the real value of the environment and the need for an assessment of its quality. The complex of benefits from …

presents a practice-oriented framework for identifying the "ecosystem service opportunities" to conserve biodiversity and …Practitioners in the fields of sustainable development, land management, and biodiversity conservation are increasingly …

A broad range of agriculture-environment interactions can be organized around the concept of agriculture as a producer … and consumer of ecosystem services . Viewed as capital assets, ecosystems embody production technologies that are valuable …