Proposal for Increasing Consistency When Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Decision Making
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چکیده
After decades of research and demonstration, use of ecosystem services in decision making is being translated into policy guidance for practitioners.1 In October 2015, the U.S. Executive Offices of the President—the Office of Management and Budget, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy—released a memo “Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Federal Decision Making” directing federal agencies to develop work plans and implementation guidance by the end of 2016.2 But many practical questions remain about how ecosystem services can most effectively be used in decision making. The question we explore in this brief is how to achieve consistency in the use of ecosystem services, primarily in terms of which ecosystem services are selected for assessment and how they are quantified.
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