TAILIEUCHUNG - Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Multiscale Assessments, Volume 4

The MA, which focused on ecosystem change and the impacts of such change on human well-being, included a set of sub-global assessments at multiple spatial scales, in addition to the global assessment. This was one of the innovations of the MA compared to other international assessments, which usually focus on global or regional scales alone. The global and sub-global assessments analyzed ecosystem services and human wellbeing from different perspectives and with different stakeholders involved. The MA sub-global assessments were led by institutions and individuals in those countries where the sub-global assessments were carried out. The MA sub-global assessments were conceived as integrated assessments to analyze the relationship between direct and indirect drivers of ecosystem. | 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 Multiscale Assessments Volume 4 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board The MA Board represents the users of the findings of the MA process. Co-chairs Robert T. Watson The World Bank . Zakri United Nations University Institutional Representatives Salvatore Arico Programme Officer Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization Peter Bridgewater Secretary General Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Hama Arba Diallo Executive Secretary United Nations .

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