A Web-Accessible Knowledge Base for the Integrated Analysis and Valuation of Ecosystem Services

世界生态系统和服务及其自然资本存量的客观评价是一个具有全球重要性的问题。建议的活动将功能建模方法应用于收集的信息存档。由此产生的分析工具应该被证明对科学界和决策界的广泛部门有用。拟议的活动将导致一个基于网络、可公开访问的资源，用于初级数据存储和随后的建模，以供政策制定和科学研究使用。

The objective valuation of the world's ecological systems and services and its natural capital stocks is an issue of global importance. The proposed activity applies a functional modeling approach to collected information archives. The resulting analysis tools should prove useful to a broad sector of the science and policy making community. The proposed activities would lead to a web-based, publicly accessible resource for primary data storage and subsequent modeling for use in policy development as well as scientific research.