What types of indicators need to measure whether your action is making a difference for BES and do you need different indicators for each of the Nature Futures Framework themes?
One of the major challenges in developing indicators is deciding what to measure. There is not yet a generally accepted approach to measuring the complete bundle of ecosystem services provided by an area.
As a consequence, proxies are often used and there is a dominance of indicators developed for provisioning services (e.g. fish stock, timber biomass) as these are easier to measure and value. What makes this even more challenging is that the concept of ‘human well-being’, which is linked to the ecosystem services concept, is also complex with similar constraints. Ecosystem services are generated by ecosystem functions, which in turn are underpinned by biophysical structures and processes. The actual ecosystem service provides benefits (e.g. nutrition, health, pleasure) which in turn can be valued in economic terms if deemed useful (UNEP-WCMC, 2011). It is worth noting that any individual service will be supported by a range of ecosystem structures and processes, and that individual structures and processes will support a range of services.
Dear Ahmed Abd Burghal I am agree with you as I have reviewed a lot litrature and scienctifc material and private reports. What do this is it possible to do so if we took in term of city scale?
In my view water conservation is one of the most important factors to consider.
Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (BES) or BES-Net complements and contributes to the capacity building work of the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Alexandre Marques Da Silva very important in current and future scanario
Indicators are species diversity and seed dispersal service in forests
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