Evaluating Tradeoffs Among Ecosystem Services in the Management of Public Lands (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781506088976)

The U.S. Forest Service has adopted the concept and language of ecosystem services to describe the beneficial outcomes of national forest management. We review the economic theory of ecosystem services as it applies to public lands management, and consider what it implies about the types of biophysical and other data that are needed for characterizing management outcomes as changes in ecosystem services. Our intent is to provide a guide to policymakers, managers, researchers, and others for evaluating and describing the tradeoffs involved in the management of public lands. Characterizing ecosystem services fundamentally is about explaining the benefits of national forests to the American public, with an emphasis on addressing their interests and concerns about how public lands are managed. Our hope is that this report will foster dialog about what people value about national forests and how public land management agencies might best go about securing those benefits

Author: Jeffrey D. Kline
ISBN-10: 150608897X
ISBN-13: 9781506088976
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2015
Pages: 54
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.11d