The forest ecosystem and forest resources

The boreal forest sequesters more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem.

You cut down that tree, the rain forest collapses as an ecosystem.

Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services.

Maintaining Ecosystem Functions, Sustaining Forest Productivity, and Appropriate Application of Knowledge and Technology

Economic valuation of ecosystem services and biological resources

Restoring just 15 of degraded forest landscapes worldwide could generate up to 85 billion worth of ecosystem services every year, mostly benefiting rural and underprivileged communities.

Many options exist to conserve or enhance specific ecosystem services in ways that reduce negative trade offs or that provide positive synergies with other ecosystem services.

The result will be conservation and the regeneration of forest resources in the fragile mountain ecosystem.

It was stated that the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and its synthesis report Human Well being and Ecosystem Services A Synthesis Report on Desertification provide a welcome and renewed focus on the socio economic significance of ecosystem services in the drylands.

In this zone, by law, economic activities must be compatible with the fragility of the tropical forest ecosystem.

Others may be unsure about the potential returns from investing in ecosystem services such as forest carbon storage or in renewable energy for the 80 of Africans who have no access to electricity.

Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed, a thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.

83. UNESCO, under its MAB programme, focuses on topics that also include ecological and economic sustainability of tropical forest management, forest regeneration, and ecosystem rehabilitation in the humid tropics.

The IFF noted that the establishment and management of protected forest areas within an ecosystem approach can contribute significantly to local economies and non market benefits to society in the form of ecosystem services such as flood control, soil and watershed protection, and others which are essential to human well being.

Many ecosystem services, such as flood regulation or erosion control, are not traded in markets.

Environmental valuation of ecosystem goods and services should become a core component of water management strategies.

The two remaining regions, the Chaco and Puna, are scored with mixed trends in ecosystem services.

Linking multilateral environmental agreements and implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, including through valuing ecosystem services

Two aspects of the valuation of ecosystem services and biological resources are often mentioned in literature.

Direct use values are those generated by ecosystem goods and services used directly by human beings.

Countries should adopt time bound environmental targets, particularly for such priorities as forest replanting, integrated water resources management, ecosystem preservation and curbing pollution.

UNEP and Governments should further develop and implement research and analysis methodologies concerning valuation of ecosystem services.

The benefits of forest landscape restoration can be disseminated through the valuation of ecosystem goods and services, building on existing experience and knowledge, and the establishment of common rules between industrialized and non industrialized countries, according to the Latin American group.

The benefits from ecosystem services in Latin America amount to 11 trillion, according to one prominent economist s methodology.

Indirect use values are those generated by ecosystem services that maintain the health of the ecosystem itself and provide outside benefits.73 For example, marine ecosystems provide natural goods and services such as carbon storage, atmospheric gas regulation, nutrient cycling and waste treatment.

Cooperation between the Forum and the Convention, with the involvement of other CPF members, has focused on the relationship between sustainable forest management and ecosystem approach.

Often the values of ecosystem services are not considered in commercial market analyses, despite their critical importance to human survival.74 Option values are derived from preserving the option to use, in the future, ecosystem goods and services that may not be used at present.

The members of the Advisory Group represent a number of government forest and forest fire services, United Nations organizations, research institutions, academia and non governmental organizations.

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Drylands include all terrestrial regions where water scarcity limits the production of crops, forage, wood and other ecosystem provisioning services.

Desertification is a result of a long term failure to balance demand for and supply of ecosystem services in drylands.

Others stated that the concept of ecosystem services had not yet been defined and should be subject to international consensus.

Hence, there is a need for policies that achieve a balance between sustaining ecosystem services while pursuing economic development.72

And finally, at the ecosystem level, whether it's flood prevention or drought control provided by the forests, or whether it is the ability of poor farmers to go out and gather leaf litter for their cattle and goats, or whether it's the ability of their wives to go and collect fuel wood from the forest, it is actually the poor who depend most on these ecosystem services.

And when that ecosystem collapses, it could take a major ecosystem with it,

A study led by the World Resources Institute on the ecosystem approach to assessing degradation of Argentina's drylands examined not just the biophysical components of the environment but trends in a wide array of ecosystem services.

And the World Bank has acknowledged this and they've started a project called WAVES Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services.

In some places, local people derive income from ecosystem services, such as ecotourism or environmental protection, but this is not common.

Because decreased biodiversity results in less resistant crops and loss of ecosystem services, pest infestations and weather variability increase agricultural stresses.

The lack of mechanisms to compensate forest owners for environmental and social non market services encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

(a) To promote sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests, taking into account the contribution of non timber forest products and ecological services to sustainable forest management and

It was an ecosystem.

The contribution of forest goods and services is often much greater than that revealed by official statistics.

In broad terms, these circumstances involve growing markets in certain classes of goods and services (natural resource intensive products), concomitant with absent markets and collective policies for natural capital (ecosystem services).