Ecosystems Services as a driver for sustainability
April 19, 2008 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE | Filed under: Collaboratory,Environmental Valuation and Accounting [1],General,Literature Review,RESEARCH CATEGORY: TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Yonghong Bao, Wenliang Wu, Mingxin Wang, Wenna Liu. “Disadvantages and future research directions in valuation of ecosystem services in China. ” International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.4 (2007): 372-381. Research Library. ProQuest. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY.. 19 Apr. 2008The term service provider solicits an immediate attention to the business community in defining an entity, individual or business, that provides for a need of another entity. To subscribe to the ecological environment as a “Service Provider” as implicitly captured in the term “Ecosystem services” challenges the social and economic community not only to begin to adopt the environment as a limited entity that provides existence to both business and humans, but to explore means to make this service provider stay in business, as it were, and be sustainable. The importance of this issue has prompted increased awareness programs and a growing development of ways to define the ecosystem providers or entities and explore ways to pay, in monetary term and otherwise, for its services. The aim is not only to design ways to give back to or preserve the environment but also to discourage further unnecessary depletion of the natural environmental resources by human practices through policy making and enforcement. The following article looks at ecosystem valuation in China with the aim of redirecting research attention in valuating ecosystems.