The over 300 million ha of public and private rangelands in the United States are
characterized by low and variable precipitation, nutrient-poor soils, and high spatial and …

Ecosystem services are the benefits that society receives from nature, including the
regulation of climate, the pollination of crops, the provisioning of intellectual inspiration and …

This study assesses the value of restoring forested wetlands via the US government's
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley by quantifying and …

Many of the critical ecosystem services generated by natural capital (such as pollination
services, flood control, water filtration, and provision of habitat for biodiversity) are …

Edward Barbier and Geoffrey Heal explain an emerging field aimed at valuing ecosystems,
whose purpose is to help policy makers decide things like how best to get New York clean …

Crop and rangelands are over 25% of the Earth's land area, and they are expanding.
Agricultural ecosystems rely on a suite of supporting ecosystem services to provide food …

This special issue contains 14 papers on ecological economics. Together they provide a
broad range of perspectives on the issue of valuing ecosystem services and critically …

Market-based approaches are increasingly being advocated as tools for achieving the
conservation of ecosystem services. We examine the reasons why markets so far appear to …

Abstract This article outlines an approach, based on ecosystem services, for assessing the
trade-offs inherent in managing humans embedded in ecological systems. Evaluating these …

The grassland biome covers an enormous fraction of the surface of the earth. Grasslands
are the potential natural vegetation of approximately 25 percent of the land surface of the …