Finding hope in the millennium ecosystem assessment.

The millennium ecosystem assessment: what is it all about?

Hundreds of scientists from over 70 nations are now engaged in an intensive effort to assess what we know about the status of the world's ecosystems. Here, we describe the fundamental nature of this assessment, what it hopes to accomplish and how it will go about its work. The results of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment will serve as a baseline for future assessments, as well as a blueprint ...

Assessing Ecosystem Services at Different Scales in the Portugal Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

is analyzing the condition of ecosystem services in Portugal, recent trends in those services, available policy responses, and scenarios for the next fifty years, following the conceptual framework of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2003). It is a multiscale assessment, carried out at the national, basin, and local scales. The assessment started in 2003...

A Report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Trends in ecosystem service research: early steps and current drivers.

Over the past 50 years, human beings have influenced ecosystems more rapidly than at any similar time in human history, drastically altering ecosystem functioning. Along with ecosystem transformation and degradation, a number of studies have addressed the functioning, assessment and management of ecosystems. The concept of ecosystem services has been developed in the scientific literature since...

Urban planning, urban Management & Urban Air Pollution and solutions for solving it

In response to the facts that some Asian developing countries were experiencing the fastest rate of industrialisation and urbanisation, several international initiatives called for a better and ‘sustainable’ urban management. Development of management tools including strategic environmental assessment (SEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), cost benefit analysis (CBA), and environmental managemen...