TAILIEUCHUNG - Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, Volume 1

The Current State and Trends assessment presents the findings of the Condition and Trends Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. This volume documents the current condition and recent trends of the world’s ecosystems, the services they provide, and associated human well-being around the year 2000. Its primary goal is to provide decision-makers, ecosystem managers, and other potential users with objective information and analyses of historical trends and dynamics of the interaction between ecosystem change and human well-being. This assessment establishes a baseline for the current condition of ecosystems at the turn of the millennium. It also assesses how changes in ecosystems have affected the underlying capacity of ecosystems to continue to. | ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN WELL-BEING _ VOLUME I CURRENT STATE AND TRENDS Findings of the Condition and Trends Working Group Millennium Ecosystem Assessment About Island Press Island Press is the only nonprofit organization in the United States whose principal purpose is the publication of books on environmental issues and natural resource management. We provide solutions-oriented information to professionals public officials business and community leaders and concerned citizens who are shaping responses to environmental problems. In 2005 Island Press celebrates its twenty-first anniversary as the leading provider of timely and practical books that take a multidisciplinary approach to critical environmental concerns. Our growing list of titles reflects our commitment to bringing the best of an expanding body of literature to the environmental community throughout North America and the world. Support for Island Press is provided by the Agua Fund The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Ford Foundation The George Gund Foundation The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Kendeda Sustainability Fund of the Tides Foundation The Henry Luce Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation The New-Land Foundation The New York Community Trust Oak Foundation The Overbrook Foundation The David and Lucile Packard Foundation The Winslow Foundation and other generous donors. The opinions expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of these foundations. Ecosystems and Human Well-being Current State and Trends Volume

• Sinh học
• Regulating Services
• Ecosystem Services
• Coastal Systems
• Urban Systems
• Mountain Systems
• Planted Pastures