Transcription of Ecosystems and Human Well-being: A Framework for …
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Summary Human well-being and progress toward sustainable development are vitally dependent upon improving the management of Earth's Ecosystems to ensure their conservation and sustainable use. But while demands for ecosystem services such as food and clean water are growing, Human actions are at the same time diminishing the capability of many eco- systems to meet these demands. Sound policy and management interventions can often reverse ecosystem degradation and enhance the contributions of Ecosystems to Human well-being, but knowing when and how to intervene requires substantial understanding of both the ecological and the social systems involved.
tory Species, and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands plan to use the findings of the MA, which will also help meet the needs of others in gov-ernment, the private sector, and civil society. The MA should help to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and to carry out the Plan of Implementation of the 2002 World Summit on Sustain-
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