A Web-Accessible Knowledge Base for the Integrated Analysis and Valuation of Ecosystem Services

University Of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences, Cambridge MD

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Abstract

The objective valuation of the world's ecological systems and services and its natural capital stocks is an issue of global importance. The proposed activity applies a functional modeling approach to collected information archives. The resulting analysis tools should prove useful to a broad sector of the science and policy making community. The proposed activities would lead to a web-based, publicly accessible resource for primary data storage and subsequent modeling for use in policy development as well as scientific research.