Changes in Nature's Balance Sheet: Model-based Estimates of Future Worldwide Ecosystem Services

Four quantitative scenarios are presented that describe changes in worldwide ecosystem services up to 2050-2100. A set of soft-linked global models of human demography, economic development, climate, and biospheric processes are used to quantify these scenarios. The global demand for ecosystem servi...

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Main Authors: Joseph Alcamo, Detlef van Vuuren, Claudia Ringler, Wolfgang Cramer, Toshihiko Masui, Jacqueline Alder, Kerstin Schulze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2005-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/art19/