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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Sustainable ecosystem management

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Alison Smith (Oxford University, UK)

alison.smith@ouce.ox.ac.uk

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Sustainable Ecosystem Management (SEM) is one of the 'four challenges' for ecosystem services (ES) addressed by OpenNESS; the others relate to human well-being, competitiveness and governance. The challenge is to manage ecosystems in such a way that they can sustainably deliver an optimal combination of ecosystem services both today and into the future, with resilience to environmental and social change.

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  • This product can be viewed online requiring an internet connection or it can be downloaded as a pdf.

Advantages:

  • N/A

Constraints:

  • Synthesis papers are not meant to be a full review on the topic but represent an agreed basis for taking the work of the project forward.

Licence:

  • Free, no licence

Development stage:

  • Full, working product
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