Linking risks to ecosystems with risks to human well-being

该项目旨在为将生态系统科学纳入解决人类福祉的政策和行动提供理论和实践指导。生态系统风险评估为保护提供了关键信息，并与人类健康和自然对人类的好处有着令人信服但尚未探索的关系。这项研究将确定突出对人类福祉和生物多样性构成风险的领域的生态系统措施。预期成果包括在全球和澳大利亚将生态系统变化纳入政策框架的新标准，如自然资本核算和联合国可持续发展目标。好处包括改进了履行和跟踪澳大利亚国际承诺进展的方式。

This project aims to provide theory and practical guidelines to integrate ecosystem science into policy and action to address human well-being. Ecosystem risk assessment provides critical information for conservation, and has compelling but unexplored relationships with human health and nature’s benefits to people. The research will identify ecosystem measures that highlight areas of risk to human well-being as well as biodiversity. Expected outcomes include new standards for including ecosystem change in policy frameworks globally and in Australia, such as natural capital accounting and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Benefits include improved ways of meeting and tracking progress on Australia’s international commitments.