ecosystem services
The ecoSERVICES Group at ASU studies the causes and consequences of change in ecosystem services – the benefits that people derive from the biophysical environment. We analyse biodiversity change in terms of its impacts on the things that people care about, ranging from food production to disease regulation to the ethical impulse to protect other species.
We have several projects funded under the auspices of the ecoSERVICES group, including:
- Advancing Conservation in a Social Context, which looks at conservation-development trade-offs at local, national, and global scales.
- BESTNet, the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Training Network
- ecoSERVICES project of Diversitas, a core program of the international program of biodiversity science
- Sustainable Infrastructure for Water and Energy Supply (SINEWS)
Please visit our website at http://www.ecoservices.asu.edu/ for more information concerning projects, people, and opportunities within the ecoSERVICES group at ASU.