At King's College London (KCL): Short URLs (all point to the same system, if one is offline for you, use another): On Amazon AWS (only used when KCL servers under maintenance) Developers: King's College London (models), AmbioTEK (software), UNEP-WCMC (applications) Audience: Conservation and development NGOs, GO and NGO Policy analysts, agriculture and industry (e.g. extractives), education and academic research. Associated project(s): None Focus: Co$ting Nature is a web based tool for analysing the ecosystem services provided by natural environments,identifying the beneficiaries of these services and assessing the impacts of human interventions. This PSS is a testbed for the development and implementation of conservation strategies focused on sustaining and improving ecosystem services. It also focused on enabling the intended and unintended consequences of development actions on ecosystem service provision to be tested in silico before they are tested in vivo . The PSS incorporates detailed spatial datasets at 1-square km and 1 hectare resolution for the entire World, spatial models for biophysical and socioeconomic processes along with scenarios for climate and land use. The PSS calculates a baseline for current ecosystem service provision and allows a series of interventions (policy options) or scenarios of change to be used to understand their impact on ecosystem service delivery. Geographical coverage: global Spatial resolution: 10 degree tiles @ 1km resolution or 1 degree tiles @ 1-hectare resolution Temporal resolution: Baseline (1950-2000) and scenario Development status: Version 1: ongoing Versions: The version 1 model covers water, carbon, hazard mitigation, nature-based tourism, biodiversity and conservation priority as well as current pressures and future threats. It currently does not include land use and climate scenarios, see here Superuser version 1 (enables latest features but in development so liable to interface bugs) Heavy users: UNEP-WCMC Key references: Mulligan, M. A. Guerry, K. Arkema, K. Bagstad and F. Villa (2010) Capturing and quantifying the flow of ecosystem services in Silvestri S., Kershaw F., (eds.). Framing the flow: Innovative Approaches to Understand, Protect and Value Ecosystem Services Across Linked Habitats. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-92-807-3065-4. [available here] |
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