Community Dialogue

The FRMES Guidebook is only a starting point for exploring integration of ecosystem services into federal agency and other decision processes. The intent of this community dialogue page is to facilitate continuing conversation about new and ongoing efforts in this arena. Please email nesp@duke.edu with relevant and constructive comments, questions, or challenges associated with these efforts as well as links to additional resources such as papers, articles, guidance, and case studies that others may find helpful.

Noteworthy Posts

Interested in sharing information about the guidebook with others? Check out the new Guidebook Training Resources page for downloadable PowerPoint slide decks about the guidebook and 2014 ACES workshop on the assessment methods. Also new is a section comparing scenario analysis and green accounting.

Frontiers Editorial

In a guest editorial for the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, National Ecosystem Services Partnership director Lydia Olander and her coauthor Lorraine Maltby of the University of Sheffield UK, discuss the growing momentum for incorporating ecosystem services concepts into environmental decision making, and point to a number of resources, including the Federal Resource Management and Ecosystem Services Guidebook.