A guide to selecting ecosystem service models for decision-making

Abstract

Co-produced with James Bullock's project: ESPA/Small Grant/2017-18/01. Ecosystems provide many services essential to human livelihoods. To maintain long-term sustainability of ecosystem benefits, many national policies and some international agreements include objectives to protect ecosystems. For instance, a number of the nationally determined contributions to climate action, submitted by countries under the 2015 Paris Agreement, include ecosystem-nbased climate mitigation and adaptation obkectives. Additionally, as of December 2017, 127 United Nations member states had signed to join the Intergovernmental Acience-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), an independent intergovernmental body established to stengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity, long-term human well-being, and sustainable development.