National Ecosystem Services Classification System (NESCS) Plus The relatively fine separation of ecosystem services in the classification system, together with common language established in it and supporting documentation provide technical practitioners (e g , social scientists, economists, natural scientists, decision-makers, etc ) of ecosystem services a means to efficiently communicate across
National Ecosystem Services Classification System Plus - Frequently . . . Moreover, a classification system focused on FES is not expected to address the needs of all ecosystem service analyses Rather, NESCS Plus will need to be applied in combination with other tools, data, and methods, especially those used to describe and quantify ecological and economic production processes and human preferences
National Ecosystem Services Classification System (NESCS): Framework . . . Different implications of the concept of “final” services: Final economic services are sold to the end user—they flow from producers to households—whereas flows of final ecosystem services occur at the “point of direct hand-off” between natural systems and human systems (including both intermediate and final producers of economic
National Ecosystem Services Classification Systen (NESCS) Plus - US EPA Minimizes double counting of ecosystem services: While supporting a comprehensive accounting of ecosystem services, it avoids duplication by distinguishing between intermediate and final ecosystem services, and by distinguishing between: (1) economic goods and services; and (2) ecosystem goods and services
The National Ecosystem Services Classification System Plus (NESCS Plus) NESCS Plus focuses on linking the direct, biophysical components [4] of nature that are directly beneficial to or directly valued used by humans (i e ecological end-products (EEPs)) to human production processes or to human well-being
WHERE TO START WITH FINAL ECOSYSTEM GOODS AND SERVICES (FEGS . . . - US EPA Final ecosystem goods and services (FEGS) are the subset of ecosystem services that directly benefit us in the myriad ways in which we use and appreciate ecosystems To organize and categorize the full range of goods and services provided by ecosystems we developed a classification system That classification system – the National Ecosystem Goods and Services Classication System (NESCS Plus
lt;a name=_Classification_systems_for gt; lt; a gt;About EGS classification . . . The Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services, developed under auspices of the European Environment Agency, is organized according to the nature of the benefit that humans receive; for example, the first (i e , Section) level of the CICES hierarchy distinguishes provisioning, regulation-maintenance and cultural services
National Ecosystem Services Classification System (NESCS) Plus The relatively fine separation of ecosystem services in the classification system, together with common language established in it and supporting documentation provide technical practitioners (e g , social scientists, economists, natural scientists, decision-makers, etc ) of ecosystem services a means to efficiently communicate across