Welcome to the IMFN | imfn.net. CIFOR Forests Blog. CIFOR: Forests, Climate Change and REDD+ Global Eco-Rescue | What We Do. Our Knowledge | Program on Forests. NATIONAL PARKS. OIL. Ecosystem services: From theory to implementation. Author Affiliations Abstract Around the world, leaders are increasingly recognizing ecosystems as natural capital assets that supply life-support services of tremendous value. The challenge is to turn this recognition into incentives and institutions that will guide wise investments in natural capital, on a large scale. Advances are required on three key fronts, each featured here: the science of ecosystem production functions and service mapping; the design of appropriate finance, policy, and governance systems; and the art of implementing these in diverse biophysical and social contexts. Even in the face of intensifying pressures and risks on the global environmental front, there is a growing feeling of Renaissance in the conservation community.
Conservation efforts now are expanding into realms well beyond reserves, beyond charity, and beyond biodiversity—and into the mainstream (6). Linking Conservation and Development Challenges of Implementation Acknowledgments Footnotes. Conservation,animals, plants, etc.