TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reyers,B.
AU  - Biggs,R.
AU  - Cumming,G.S.
AU  - Elmqvist,T.
AU  - Hejnowicz,A.P.
AU  - Polasky,S.
TI  - Getting the measure of ecosystem services: a social-ecological approach
N2  - Despite growing interest and investment in ecosystem services across global science and policy arenas, it remains unclear how ecosystem services - and particularly changes in those services - should be measured. The social and ecological factors, and their interactions, that create and alter ecosystem services are inher-ently complex. Measuring and managing ecosystem services requires a sophisticated systems-based approach that accounts for how these services are generated by interconnected social-ecological systems (SES), how different services interact with each other, and how changes in the total bundle of services influ-ence human well-being (HWB). Furthermore, there is a need to understand how changes in HWB feedback and affect the generation of ecosystem services. Here, we outline an SES-based approach for measuring ecosystem services and explore its value for setting policy targets, developing indicators, and establishing monitoring and assessment programs
UR  - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tYMO-TMr6C7O-iVrSBhsI1SQuHiWrBZo/view?usp=drivesdk
ER  -