Journal
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages 108-116Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.11.002
Keywords
Biodiversity measurement; Biodiveisity indicators; Biodiversity policy; Ecosystem services; Nature Index; Valuation
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- Norwegian Environment Agency
- Nature Index
- Research Council of Norway [190054]
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Valuation of ecosystem services has been advocated as a tool for communicating the importance of nature and biodiversity to policy makers. The complexity of the relationships between ecosystem functions and the biodiversity that supports them challenges conceptualization of ecosystem services and calls for comprehensive ecological frameworks as basis for valuation and policy. In this article, we discuss relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem services in the context of the Nature Index for Norway, recently developed as a biodiversity measurement framework. We suggest supplementing the Nature Index by complementary indicators for ecosystem services, in order to consider how the ecosystem services approach as a policy tool can be enhanced by taking into account an ecological framework for biodiversity measurement. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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