Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services Initiative (MESI) REDD and Biodiversity. Natural Capital Project. Forest Ecosystems & Ecosystem Services. Valuing ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services. Ecosystem Marketplace - Ecosystem Based Management Tools. A Matrix for Mapping Ecosystem Service Markets. Over the past decade, more and more businesses have come to recognize that man's economy depends on the earth's ecology, and that ecosystem services – from waste treatment and pollination to genetic resources – generate tangible benefits to industry.
Furthermore, because these benefits have gone unquantified, they have also gone unpaid for -- and the ecosystems that provide them are in decline. This has sparked a diverse array of efforts around the globe to value and pay for ecosystem services. Many of these Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) efforts – like the booming carbon markets – already channel billions of dollars into projects designed to keep the planet's ecosystem infrastructure alive. Others, however, are less developed. Even in carbon -- by far the most successful ecosystem market to date -- the concepts are emerging, changing rapidly, and dispersed across geography and institutions.
Adapting Forest Management.